GENERAL CABLES

Waikato Times, Volume 90, Issue 14049, 30 April 1919, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

BRITISH COAL COMMISSION. A HEATED INTERLUDE. (Australian and N.Z, Cable Assn.) LONDON, April 20. There was a heated scene at the jCoal Commission, when Mr Srnillie, Sir Chiozza Money and others, representing the miners, threatened to withdraw as a protest against Mr Leslie Scott intervening on behalf of the royalty ■owners. Subsequently Mr Justice Sankey agreed to Mr Smillie’s proposal ito subpoena Lords Bute, Dnnraven, Northumberland, Durham, Londonderry and others in order to examine their ■titles and investigate their incomes from royalties. The objection was raised that it woulu require a pantechnicon to carry Lord Durham’s titles. j WIRELESS RESTRICTIONS OFF. 1 ' (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, April 27. The removal of the restrictions on wireless on the high seas, except in ■certain zones, is expected to greatly facilitate communication with ships and augment telegram dm file between these and aired .js. ' ioreover, the range of ships’ I da.«e ias increased during the war to a thousand miles. > STEAMERS SUNK. j WITH GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. (Reuter’s Telegrams.) VALPARAISO, April 2G. Heavy loss of life is reported through the sinking of the steamers Magdalena, which foundered in a storm off Corral, and the Alfonso, which was sunk in a collision with the Fortuna. A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. • pADIO ACTIVITY ARTIFICALLY 'd PRODUCED. ; (Australian and N.Z. Gable Assn.) NEW YORK, April 27. A Los Angeles message announces that Dr Baringer Cox, the Government radio expert, has discovered a method of artiflcally producing radio activity, at a small cost, in any quantity desired. BIG FIRE IN JAPAN. i 2000 BUILDINGS DESTROYED. ! YOKOHAMA, April 28. 1 j A fire . destroyed 2000 buildings. | NAVAL TUG SUNK. 29 OF THE CREW DROWNED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, April 28. The British naval tug Hughli was lost in a storm on the Belgian coast, 29 of the crew being drowned. SMALL-POX ON TRANSPORTS. (United Press Association.) MELBOURNE, April 9. Three transports have arrived, eacli with a case of small-pox aboard. One death is reported. KILLED BY A MADMAN. (United Press Association.) M ' SYDNEY, April 28. i Corbett St. John King, a New ZeaI; lander, who was an inmate of the Gallan Park asylum, died from a fractured ' skull, the result of being attacked by another inmate with a shovel. AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING. STATE OWNERSHIP DOOMED. 'United Press Association 1 MELBOURNE, April 28. Shipping circles consider the report of the Repatriation Committee at the Peace Conference on the restoration of merchant shipping will sound the death Icnell of the Commonwealth Government line, and that it will only be a question of time when the Government will drop the ship-owning business. ' AUSTRALIAN COAL TROUBLE. A CONFERENCE ARRANGED. (United Press Association.) SYDNEY, April 28. The Coal Commission lias resumed, ’■nit .the employees are not represented. lion. \Y. A. Watt, Acting-Federal Premier, has definitely arranged for a conference of New South Wales colliery proprietors on Wednesday to discuss the agreement which the miners have already accepted. A mass meeting of Gessnock miners decided not to resume work until the town is completely isolated.