CABLE NEWS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18900, 22 December 1923, Page 15

CABLE NEWS

The Federal Postmaster-General has decided to extend the lettergram service, which is at present confined to strictly social messages, to commercial messages. Mr. Justice Gordon, at Sydney in sentencing a youth to ten, years’ imprisonment for assault on asmall girl, threatened the “cat” would be usejl if gaol did not act as a deterrent in such crimes. Owing to the employers refusing to reduce the working week from 48 to 46 hours, the cake workers throughout New South Wales have intimated that the cease to work. A Los Angeles message states that Helen La Maie is asking for a divorce from her husband, who is a motion picture director and a theatre manager. She claims that La Maie negotiated four years ago with a wealthy negro of the Mexican underworld to sell her for half-a-million dollars, of which he offered her 150,000 if she consented. He then became violently angry because she demurred. Mr. Horace Knowles, of the Ottoman American Development Company, holding the Chester Oil concessions in Turkey, says that failure to obtain the capital in America will mean that the Chester concessions will pass shortly to a syndicate of London bankers, who are now assembling 5,000,000 dollars to acquire a controlling interest in Turkish oil. A congress of the Responsible Government Party at Salisbury (South Africa), decided to change the name to the Rhodesian Party, and also that, under the party constitution, negotiations for an alliance with the Rhodesian Labour Party be entered into not later than 15th of January next.