GENERAL CABLES.

Waipukurau Press, Volume 11, Issue 39, 12 August 1920, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

A Brisbane message states that Lieu tenants Barer and Alclntosh have pass cd Poyell Creek and arc flying strongly

Five captured German warships have arrived at New York, they will be tx hibited for twelve months and then sunk. They comprise a Dreadnought, a cruiser, and three, destroyers. Owing to inability to float a loan in London, the Queensland Government is unable to proceed with its scheme for settling several thousand soldiers on the land, and also the establishment of State iron and steel works. A message from Sydney states that cattle supplies at the Homebush market were very light, and record prices io suited; one bullock brought £7O; threw. averaged £66; and six cows ac exaged £33, one fetching £l7. 'The heaviest bullock was estimated to weigh 1800 ! pounds.

A London message says it has been decided to abolish the two well-known statutes of George 111 (in Pall Mall) and William IV. The authorities propose to erect new statues’ of Edward VII in Trafalgar Square; of Earl Kitchener and Earl Roberts at the War Office and of Lord Fisher at the Admiralty.

’ Liquor smuggling into the United States from Canada has reached. suc!i proportions that it has developed into a large illegal traffic in other commodities (states a New York message). ' Thu Customs service is wholly inadequate to meet the situation. A small army is essential to patrol isolated coastal spots, whence there is smuggling from incoming ships, and the frontier regions.