MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18412, 19 June 1925, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

A London message states that the late' Sir Edward Sassoon left £488,343, on which tho estate duties amount to £122,000. Ottawa reports that tho supplementary estimates tabled in the Dominion House of Commons provide l l4s,ooo dollars for the Dunedin Exhibition. Ottawa reports that Mr Tom Mooro, president of the Labour Congress of Canada, declined to entertain a proposal by the striking miners at Cape Breton to inaugurate a general strike throughout Eastern Canada. According to a London cable, the Hon. W. E. Guinness (Financial Secretary to the Treasury) in the House of Commons, said that in view of the congestion on tho Imperial cables it was a matter for grave consideration whether, until cable facilities have been increased or wireless provided, it would be justifiable to adopt tho proposed Press rato reduction. Sydney reports that tho new Labour Cabinet has commuted tho death sontenco on Alfred Mclnnoa to penal servitude for life. » Mclnnea was sentenced on Ins second trial for tho murder of Winifred Foley, a barmaid, at Potorsham, in September. The House" of Commons adopted a Government amendment making the duties on imported silk tissues chargeable on the weight of the complete tissue, instead of the woight of tho silk content, with tho objoet of discouraging loading before goods aro imported.