GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 179, 24 April 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph-Press ABBociation-Oopyright The Australian Senate has read tho War Gratuity Bill a third time. Students of Sydney University have formed a club to play league football as amateurs. In the House of Lords Lady Carbery'* Divorce Bill was read a second time after hearing the petitioner's evidence. A proclamation has been issued in Australia withdrawing to a certain extent the restrictions on tho transmission of money to Germany. Mr. Hughes (Federal Premier) has announced that Mr. "Watt will represent tho Commonwealth at tho Financial Conference at Brussels in May. A meeting of unions convened 1)y the Sydney Labour Council passed a' motion demanding the release of the twelve I.W.AV. prisoners. The New South Wales Government has ' asked Mr. Justice E\Hng to accept a Royal Commission to inquire into the I.W.W. prisoners' cases. Ansae Day was celebrated in Melbourne yesterday. The city was gaily decorated. Returned men assisted in the. street collections. A Eeuter message from Now York states that Lawson, the author of "Frenzied Finance," has been fined a thousand dollars for illegal silver stock advertising. The Geelong (Victoria) branch of the l'elurned Soldiers' Association is starting a co-operative wool manufacturing company, with a capital.of .£IOO,OOO. A United Service message from London stales that ex-King Ferdinand of Bulgaria is running a market garden at Gotha and living on the sale of vegetables. __ A Paris message states that there is. a general strike in Alsace-Lorraine. The gas supply has ceased in Strassbnrg and also the trams, and the newspapers are, not appearing. • A Eeuter message from Tokio states that after a slump continuing for ten days, the silk, cotton, and rice exchanges have closed. Speculators' losses are estimated at two thousand million yen. During the past three mouths over 200.000 head of starring stock have been taken from .the drought areas of New South WalesMo the County of Cumberland, where grass is available. The "Echo de Paris" learns that the town of Darmstadt has concluded a loan of ten million marks with the, Zimmerman Bank, New York. This is the first German loan issued abroad since the', war. ■ " j The Hon. Edward- Lucas, Agent-Gen-eral for South Australia, and Mrs. Lucas, entertained Colonel Weigall, the newlyappointed Governor of the State, at an "At Home" at the British Empire Club, London., The High Commissioners, , Agents-General, and many South Australians attended. \ . It is estimated that there are 250 New Zealand Anzacs 'in and about Sydney. The Anzac Day Committee is inviting them to march at the head of the First Australian Division in Sunday's Church «■' parade. There is great preparation for Monday's celebrations in. Sydney as a public holiday. The Braeside, a five-masted barquenliun of 2SOO tons, the largest wooden ship built in the Commonwealth. _ lias heen launched on the Parramatta Eiver. The vessel was,originally ordered- by the Federal Government, but was recently . purchased by s ßurns, Philp and Co. In anticipation of the forthcoming poll on prohibition arid permanent 6 o'clock closing of hotels in New 'South Wales, tho Alliance is organising a forty weeks' campaign. The State has been divided into areas, to each of which an army of special speakers and preachers will devote a week. In the Australian Senate, on the second reading of the Immigration Bill, Senator Gardiner denounced the Government's proposal to insert a clause excluding persons who advocate force to overthrow the Government. . Such a clause, he said, would exclude men like Cromwell and Washington. It is estimated that there are twenty thousand unskilled workers idle m New South' Wales owing to the prolonged drought. Thousands are reported to bo searching for work in the city, and many are destitute. Workers, in other States are advised to avoid New South Wales. Deputations of unemployed are interviewing Government officials. A London message states that ■ the Court of Appeal, dismissed the appeal of the infant daughter of Selwyu LucasTooth, claiming the right to inherit part of her grandfathers estate, which was left to the heir to the baronetcy. The Court decided in favour of the heir of Lord Archibald Leonard Lueas-looth, who succeeded/to the baronetcy. "- A London' message states that the total amount of the Naval Prize Fund is at pre.-ent JE5,G00,000, which'is sufficient to make one share worth 50s. - It is otnciallv stated that the final amount cannot vet be estimated, but some unofficial estimates place the figures as high as i! 10.000,000. The distribution will begin forthwith. / The Marconi Company ha.s submitted ,i scheme to My. Hughes (federal Priino Minister) for the establishment at the company's expense of super high-power wireless stations in all the Dominions with the object of bringing them into ; rliwr touch with Britain and each oilier. Cabinet is alto considering transferring the control of wireless from the Navy to the- Postal Department. •in important decision has been given by the High Court'in connection with the Queensland local option poll in 1917. The poll was taken on the same day as the election for the Federal .Senate, and resulted in favour of a reduction in hotels in certain districts. The point taken was that the State' authorities overrode the Federal law V taking the poll in conjunction with the l'ederal ('lections. The Court hold that tho Fed- , eral law is paramount, and tho poll invalid. The Australian Senate has passed the fir«t reading of the Passports Bill, which provides that no person over 16 years-of n"e will be permitted to leave the Commonwealth'without h passport properly vised and endorsed, under a penalty of .eioO or six, months' imprisonment. The I system does not apply to the crews of overseas vessels or persons visiting, settliii", or returning to New Zealand, provided that they possess a permit issued by the proper authorities and travel m vessels trading solely between Australia and New Zealand. The Bill also exempts aboriginals and natives of Asia, the East Indies, and the islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.