GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 177, 22 April 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

(By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright j General Horwood has b«;i appointed i Chief Commissioner of Ijondon Police, r in succession to General Sir Ncvil Macieady. Dr. Danes, a professor at Prague, i 9 to u'sit Australia to establish a Czecho- | Slovak Consulate in Sydney. i Aiissnc Day has been proclaimed a pub- | lie holiday in Sydney and all tho shops j will close. • J The Royal Golf-house at Rose Bay, Syd- 1 ney, has been destroyed"by lire. The .j insurances amounted to .£13,000. j Two more victims of the motor smash' near Perth, a man and ; an infant, hava i died, and six others are in a, critical condition. . i The Sydney City Council voted against tho expenditure of .£SOOO for decoration of the city during the visit of the Prince of. Wales. • : It is unofficially elated that the '■ Federal Government will place Franco <m an intermediate tariff, or will give lior prefercnco in. some other way. . : The Governor of Mudros has tele- j graphed to Malta asking for urgent i supplies of clothing for 5000 destitute j women and children refugees from Pub- , eia. ; Mr. W. A. Holman, formerly Premier of New South Wales, has notified the ; seniors at the Bar that he intends to apply for appointment as King's Coun- j eel. . . ; A. message from London states that there are upwards of sixty applications < for the Conimisslonership of the Vic- j torian Railways. The applicants are chiefly British, but there.are sqme from | the Continent and South America. j The New South Wales Cabinet Ims de- ! cidod to terminate Mr. D. R. Hall's ap- j nointnient as Agent-General in London \ forthwith. Sir Timothy Coghltm will act ; as Agent-General pending the appoint- '■ ment of a successor to Mr. Hall. The proposal for the formation of a separate Sluto of Northern; New South Wales, including Newcastle, has been ; revived, and is attracting general in- ! teiest. The proposed new State has an j area of 65,0(10 square miles, and a population of 460,000. j A. Renter message from London states '! that tho National Executive of tho , Labour Party' has passed a resolution \ ■urging the Government to permit the j immediate admission, to England of tho Lilvinolf trade delegation, with a view ; to giving clfect -to. the decision to resinne trade with Russia. . j I A Melbourne message states that the. hookworm campaign is proceeding satis- 1 factorily. Four doctors are making in- } vestigntious in Queensland; others have been dispatched to the mines in Eendigo and at Broken Hill, and others will pro- i ceed to Papua, The campaign is estimated to occupy live years and to cost i •£IOO,OOO. | A report received at Washington from . : the American Embassy 'at Tokio statfs that the principal exchanges in Japan J were closed for three days owing to the . i failure of the operators to put up addi- : tional margins. Baron Takahishi, Min- I ister of Finance, attributed tho situation to tho public fever for speculation. The ; Minister, counselled the public against | speculation, aud suggested that the Jap- i anese people should contract their busi- j ness, and gave his assurance that the i Bank of Japan would unhesitatingly help . j concerns ,or banks deserving of it. |