GENERAL CABLES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18757, 14 April 1923, Page 11

GENERAL CABLES

BEEF FREIGHT RATES. SYDNEY, April 13. The overseas shipping companies have decided to reduce Homeward freight rates on frozen beet and beef products by a halfpenny per pound. THE DROUGHT IN N.S.W. SYDNEY, April 13. Cabinet has instituted the Railway Commission to reduce the - fodder freights 25 per cent, to help the settlers in the dry areas. The Commission have already effected a reduction of 25 per cent, on their own authority. CHINESE POLITICS, PEKIN, April 10. The Senate by 94 to 21 voted want of confidence in the Cabinet. BRITISH TRADE RETURNS. LONDON, April 12. A Board of Trade return shows that the value Qf imports into Britain during March increased by £2,142,802, the exports decreased by £3,660,103, and re-exports decreased by 1,067,970, compared with the previous March. WAR CRIMINALS. LONDON, April 12. A military court at Amiens imposed sentences of twenty years’ hard labour and twenty years’ expulsion from France on three German officers for acts of pillage on the Aisne in 1918. DEFIANT GREECE. ATHENS, April 12. M. Anexandris, Minister of Foreign Affairs, interviewed, said that Greece cannot and will not pay an indemnity to Turkey, and prefers not to sign the peace treaty. Nevertheless, it is believed that Turkey needs peace and will be delighted to sign. Greece will then be free to put her finances in order, and considerably reduce her army. SUGAR BEET GROWING IN ENGLAND. LONDON, April 12. Speaking at a luncheon of the British Sugar Beet-growers’ Society, Sir Frapcis Lloud, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, said there was every reason to suppose that the present Government would continue the remission of excise duty on home-grown sugar, which is one of the bright spots in agriculture. Mr G. H. Roberts, a member of the House of Commons, said that this year two factories at Kelham and Cantley have contracted for fifteen thousand acres, giving employment to 1500 labourers. Ho hoped in the near future that there would be 20 other factories in operation. THE DOOLEY-McGIRR DISPUTE. SYDNEY, April 13. The Federal Labour executive decided that it had power to intervene in the Labour dispute, and heard the case stated by the Dooley-McGirr factions, and the State executive. Tile latter and McGirr’s supporters deny the right of the Federal body to intervene, and presented their cases unofficially. FEDERAL POLITICS. SYDNEY, April 13. The Federal Parliament bolds a short session from June 13 to August 25th inst. Mr Bruce sails for London the 24th to attend the Imperial Economic Conference.