GENERAL CABLES.

Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15360, 8 October 1923, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. WASHINGTON, October 4. The fact that there was one divorce to 7.6 marriages in the United States last year is disclosed in the report of the census department. This is, the first report since 191fi, when there was one divorce to 9.3 marriages. There were more divorces and about one-fiftieth fewer marriages per 100,000 of population last year than in 1916. Mr George Harvey, who has been United States Ambassador to Britain since April, 1921, will resign as from January 1 next. NEW YORK, October 4.

The. lots at the New York auction company's annual fur sales consisted of miscellaneous skins. Prices were below those of last April, averaging 15 per cent, although buying continued active. Australian opossum declined 15 per cent. Firpo, the Argentine boxer, Is returning to Buenos Ayres on October 13. He has accepted a contract for £2OOO to appear in a moving picture, on condition that it is filmed in the Argentine. He refused an extra £20,000 to bake the picture in California. Luis Firpo is unmarried and will not become an American citizen. He was etnered on the naturalisation blank as married and explained it was a slip or the pen by the stenographer. He declared he only intended to pay a courtesy to the American people by becoming a citizen, not knowing it involved the abandoning of Argentine citizenship.

AUSTRALIAN. United Press Association. SYDNEY, October 5. The sixth annual conference of the National Association, representing all parts' of the State, carried a resolution of loyalty to. the King and Empire, and condemning' the attitude of persons endeavouring to weaken the relationship between Australia and the Motherland. Mr Wearne. Minister for Lands, outlined the Government's policy on land settlement to the delegates, explaining that the Government had decided to push the railways into the country districts before inviting people to settle out-back. Sir Geo. Fuller has announced that he hoped to be able to state the name of the new Governor early next week. Dr. W. E. Ritter, of the University of California, who is returning from the Science Congress, says the problem of Asiatic immigration, which is confronting American statesmen today, is but an immediate demonstration of what Australia and New Zealand will have to face In future.' He predicts that within a century or two the Pacific will be the centre of civilisation on the globe. Sir Geo. Fuller has communicated with the Imperial authorities requesting that, the immigration agreement under which 6000 immigrants are to be settled in New South Wales within five years be deferred for the time being so that the authorities locally can have land prepared before the arrival of the newcomers.

Charles Sroringe, a notorious criminal, vrti'ti escaped from the Parramatta gaol in February and was recaptured on September 28, after an exciting chase, has been committed for trial on two charges of breaking and entering. He congratulated the detectives from the dock on his capture and the way they give evidence; He stated that he would otherwise have been thousands of miles from Australia. A joint sitting of the Assembly Council to select a successor to Senator Millen is fixed for the 17th inst. It is announced that the retail price of sugar will be reduced from fivepence to 4id on the 15th inst.