GENERAL CABLES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19049, 30 June 1924, Page 11

GENERAL CABLES

The Italian Senate unanimously expressed confidence in the Government. General Berengduer, ex-Command-er-in-Chief of the Spanish forces, and the High Commissioner at Morocco who was court-martialled in connection with the Melilla disaster in 1921, has been sentenced to be removed from the active list and placed on the reserve. General Navairo, who was similarly charged, was acquitted. Presiding at the annual meeting of the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, Sir John Pender said the company’had applied for a wireless license, but had to wait to ascertain Britain’s declared policy before anything could be done. They had received terms for a license affecting India, but it was absolutely impossible for the company to carry these out. Prolonged negotiations as regards China had proved abortive. In the motor cycle tourist trophy race in the Isle of Man, one competitor, named Moyle,, crashed. His injuries were not serious, but he required medical attention, and retired from the race. The Minister for Public Works (West Australia) states that the Government has decided to restore the 44-hour week in departments under his control. There is to be no loss in wages to employees. A shocking tragedy is reported from Bute near Adelaide. The bodies of the wife of E. Harvey, a local butcher, and their four-months-old child, were discovered in the house, both dead from rifle wounds. Harvey was discovered in an adjoining paddock with a wound in his head. His condition is not thought to be serious. The circumstances of the tragedy are not known. A report from Lithgow (N.S.W.) says that a reef 4ft. wide, in which gold can easily be discerned without the aid of a glass, has been discovered at Porter’s Retreat. Beinkop, a member of the Dutch Communist Party, speaking at the Congress of the Third Internationale in Moscow said the British Empire was the ' gravity centre of the world’s capitalism. The United States was also a stronghold of the same creed. They must concentrate their efforts on the British Empire, because there lay the shortest route to world revolution. The centenary of Durban is being celebrated by elaborate festivities, including the unveiling of memoriai tablets by Princess Alice. The Cape squadron and the American warship Trenton are in harbour participating. Anflindsen has postponed his polar expedition owing to economic difficulties, says a Christiania cable.