CABLE NEWS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16033, 26 January 1920, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

iutniits *b.4 N.Z. Cable As*oei*tioa, LONDON, January 22. Final figures for the ironmonlders’ ballot favour resumption by a larire majority. Captains Browne and Cockeril, formerly air force officers, aboard a Tickers airplane «ndiar to have left Brooklaads. They are attempting to fly to Capetown. A committee, including Lord Burnham, Lord Sydenham, Sir Percy Sootfc, Mr Andrew Fisher and prominent scientists, has been appointed bo organise Cbpe’s Antarctic expedition. The Prince of Wales, aocompamed by Lord Stamfordham, called on Mr Lloyd George and discussed for 90 minutes plana connected with the Australasian tour. Lord Leverimlme has purchased the North Harris and other Hebrides Islands. In the New Zealand appeal case Union Steamship Company v. Robin, the Privy Council intimated that they Were in respondents’ favour. They did not desire to hear the respondents further at present, and reserved judgment. The allotment of 100 aeroplanes, which the Imperial Government is presenting to Australia, will now be completed. The Bookman’s Journal states that one thousand spade guineas were found under the floor of an old manor house in Hertfordshire, together with valuable china and silver, and % rare first edition which had been buried since the 1745 rebellion. The Imperial Chambers of Commerce Congress meets at Toronto in September. NEW TORE, January 24. Petrol 60 to 62 degrees, in steel containers, 26} cents’ wholesale; 28} cents, retail, 68 lo 70 degrees, in steel containers, 33;} cents, wholesale, 72 to 76 degrees, in steel containers) 36} cents, wholesale. MADRID, January 23. The police raided a clandestine meeting at Barcelona and arrested fiftyseven prominent dangerous anarchists. WASHINGTON, January 24. The army authorities are informed that 5800 Japanese mnforfceiaciite are about to land at Tladiybstock. The Commerce Department announces that the United States’ 1919 foreign trade balance was 4017 million dollars—--7921 million in exports and 3904 million in imports. PARIS, January 24. The German Minister, Ton Mayer, has arrived. Von Lersmer remains as counsellor to the Embassy. CONSTANTINOPLE, January 23. _ The fall of the Alixozas Cabinet is imminent, Djemal Pasha . (War Minister) and Djeval Pasha (Chief of the Turkish Staff) resigned prior to the first meeting of Parliament to-day.