GENERAL CABLES.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15312, 13 August 1923, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN

Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. MADRID, August 9. The.bank strike is collapsing. Many' strikers have seceded from -the unions and resumed duty. Most of the banks have profited by the strike, to reduce staffs. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9. The Leland-Slanford University has received a 400,000 dollar bequest from the estate of the late Thomas Welton Stanford, of Melbourne, for the study of physic phenomena. DELHI, August 9. A cricket club on the lines of the Marylebone club has been inaugurated at Bombay, of which Mr Ranjitsinghji is the first president. The All-India Olympic Committee decided to send the first official Indian team to the forthcoming Olympic Games in Paris. Sir D. Tata has guaranteed the team's expenses.

AUSTRALIAN.

United Press Association. SYDNEY, August 10. A conference of Anglican clergy in the Sydney diocese reviewed the Hickson Mission, the judgment generally being that the mission had proved a blessing to the community in many ways, not only respecting the remarkable cures, but in spiritual benefits. Though not deciding to coordinate in the spiritual mission work of the different denominational churches, the members of the conference determined to do what they could as individuals in carrying forward the message of Christ's healing. France has notified Mr Hicks that she will be unable to send a tennis team to Australia this year. Efforts are now being made to secure a visit from Spain or America. At the first annual meeting of the Cremation Company the architect was instructed to call for tenders, at a cost of £6OOO, for a crematorium to be erected within the metropolis at Rookwood.

The Hebburn colliery has resumed. Redhead and Aberdare are the only two mines'idle at present. The Chief Inspector of Mines has returned from Broken Hill. He says the complete suppression of the Are in the Central Mine will require a lot of work, taking considerable time. MELBOURNE, August 10.

A deputation from the Northern Territory asked Hon. A. Chapman, Minister of Trade, to take steps to deal with the buffalo fly, which was causing greater havoc among cattle than the tick or redwater. Mr Chapman promised to refer the matter to the Bureau of Science and Industry. In the House of Representatives, Hon. E. K. Bowden (Minister of Defence), explaining the defence estimates, said that pending an arrangement at the Imperial Conference the Government had set aside £2,500,000 as a reserve for defence purposes, and the naval and military and air forces would proceed on the same lines as intended in 1922-23. The first item on the estimates was agreed to, and progress was reported at midnight. A 24-hour sitting is expected to-day, when an effort will be made to pass the whole estimates. HOBART, August 10.

Thirteen of 17 members of the Ministry held a caucus with the object of inducing the Cabinet to institute railway reforms. The Premier (Hon. J B Hayes) forestalled their action by tendering the resignation of the Cabinet.