GENERAL GABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 195, 13 May 1920, Page 5

GENERAL GABLES

——♦ —- I By Telegraph-Press Aesooiation-Copyrltrlit j A nugget of pur© gold weighing 143 ~ ranees has been found on tlio Charters j Cowers goldfield. '. , :j It is announced from Sydney that aa j . result of the investigations of the ! licenses Reduction Board, the number • if hotels in New South Wales will J >robably be reduced by j A Chicago message states that . Uie i National Convention of the Socialist i ?arty has rejected a motion for the ■■■; idoption of "the ' DictatOTship •of the ; j Proletariat' as a plunk in tlio party ; platform. j The New South Wales Government has decided, in addition to its scheme j for advances in connection with this ■ pear's crop, to make an advance of Is. ] 3d. a bushel on the 1919-20' wheat crop, with a view to ameliorating the position i Df the farmers. ' I General Sir Arthur Currie, Com- ;; marder-in-Chief of the Canadian .Army I in France, lias accepted the position of. j principal of M'Gill University, to which ; Sir' Auckland Geddes was appointed, t \ but abandoned on being made British' -j Ambassador to Washington. ] It is reported from Washington that ! an application by Mr. W. R. Hearst ! for an injunction to prevent the United 1 States Shipping Board selling _ twenty- j nine ex-German liners to Britain and j other countries has been granted 'by the ; Courts. It is operative perpetually. | A message from Adelaide states that the- Supreme Court has' ruled that no j private person can sue the Federal Gov- , ernment unless the case is preferred to ; tho Court by the Governor-General. : This means that all actions against the ; Government must be referred to Mel- ; bourne on petition. A Reuter message from Bucharest ! states that Hrabovsky, tließumanian doie- : gato on the Inter-Allied Commission at ; Bckeschaba, Hungary," recently disappear. .! ctl. It has been learned that ihc- was imprisoned and beaten to. death by Hun- ; garians, apparently owing to lus ~ teaipts to secure the union of Old bio- j vakia and Rumania. Representative!, of Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden at present m London ; are inquiring as to the opportunities and , facilities for settling a considerable num- ] ber of their emigrants in, Australia.- j There is a.growing luimber of a,pplica- ; tions from families in the. districts in ; Trance and Belgium whore_ Australians j were quartered during war-time. ' ' | It is reported from Melbourne that j the death of Lieutenant-Colonel . Sir' .j George Steward, Chief Commissioner of j Police, was the result of heart failure, j Colonel Steward collapsed while driving; S alone, the car 6kiddbd and collided with j a tree, but was not overturned. Tho j steering wheel struck deceased, who was ; .wounded on the head, but the actual cause of death was'heart trouble. j Ths Berlin correspondent of. tho, ; United Press cables that the Germans i are developing ;■ a new industry, tho',' ! manufacture of a substitute for cotton, [ states a Montreal message. The sub- • stitiite consists of wood cellulose, and ' it is claimed that it can be used in every way as cotton. The new indiis- j try. it is suggested, may ]jay all tho German debts and re-establish, the lia- i tion's credit. ' , ■ : ■! In. connection witli the Tecent cable. j message announcing improvements in I j aeroplane wings, a letter just received in j Sydney froffiujlr. Handley Page states- , that tho improvement will result in the: j production of small aeroplanes, costing • j from i£lsft to .£2OO, that dould be housed i in premises no bigger than coalsheds, j and might he used for a week-end journey of five hundred miles. The deyolop- ! ment would enable a machine with a > 6pan of say a hundred feet to have its piano area reduced to fifty feet, yet re- I tain the eauio carrying capacity. Tho eamo will apply to all classes of inar , chines./ ' The Methodist General Conference, sit- i ting at Sydney, adopted a resolution ex- : j pressing apprehension at the, prevailing ; laxity of morality'in the community gen-; ; erally, Specially whe'se tho relations of; the sexes were coiicenrd.._.,The confer-' ; ence appointed a committee to report on. i some practical lines, on' which confer-•, j once could act. The disfcussion indicated' ! a feeling that wli.at was characterised as , < the cowardly silenco ,o.nd 'veiled utter-', ; ances of tho. Church and parents should _ ; cease, and. methods adopted by which" i the Church and parents would act in i ; concert in the matter of sex education.! : The evils existing were considered to bo, . largely the result of ignorance. - ■ 1