GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 201, 20 May 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright ' j discount Jellicoo will bo the guest at i the .annual dinner of the Royal Colonial i Institute. • :■ A Reutcr messago from Peking states. j that the Italian aviator, Lieutenant Per- j rarin, who is flying from Romo to Tokio, i has arrived there. j It is reported from Teheran that 80l- -.'j shevik forces liavo invaded Persia from ffzorhaijau. They declare it is their i intention to expel the British from Per- ' j sia. ! M. Painleve, the former Premier of ■'.} France, has gone to China on a mis- J sion aiming at the establishing of closer. j relations between France and China. 1 The New South Wales Presbyterian As- j eembly has decided to send a Director of i Immigration to. London. His duties will I include the securing of ministers and ■'•, missionaries for Australia. ] Mr. W. H. Lucas, Islands manager for ■! Messrs. Burns, Philp, and Company, has ! been appointed export adviser on Pacifio j Islund matters to the Federal Government. Notice was given in the Federal House ( of Representatives of the introduction j of a Bill.to provide for the extension of j the Moratorium. The Oil Agreement . Bill was read a third time. ! Baynes, the Queensland sculler, who was chosen as an Olympic representative, j has notified the committee that he will . ! be unable to make the trip. | A Sydney message states that a special race train and an ordinary train col- ■ j lided at Waterloo owing to a brake fail- .! ins to act. Seventeen passengers were i injured, most of them slightly. A London message states that_ the i purchasers of Devonshire House intend j to demolish the buildings and «ect a , kir.cm.ii, restaurant and dancing hall, '; ■using the famous staircase as the approach to the latter. ! A message from London states that i Colonel Tufnell, the only son of Bishop : Tufnell.'of Brisbane, was attacked by a native and killed whilo travelling in a ' train from Calcutta to Lucknow. No ■ . arrest has been made. < A message from Madrid to ; the London J "Times" states that during a bull-fight j at Talavera, a bull disembowelled l tho \ greatest bull-fighter of the day, Joselito. The tragedy has caused a national sen- j sation. for Joselito was a popular hero., j He entered the ring in 1912, and since i then has killed 1430 bulls. He earned i ■£40,000 a year. ,; A. Reuter message from Cairo states : that the Governor-General of the Sudan . ; has reported that Colonel Harwell's force j has concluded n successful punitive ex- i pedition against the tribes responsible ,-• for the deaths of Majors Stigand and ; White in December last. -The enemy's -j main force was surprised, and tho prin- ! cipal chief, with a considerable force, ■• surrendered unconditionally. j The Premier of South Australia, in a' ,] policy speech, forecasted an electoral Te-• ■< port 'in the direction of preferential vot- -1 insr and increased taxation. Referring i to increased wages to Government em- : ployees. he said the Government had de- : cided that if the men refused to accept ■ ; ; the wages fixed, the result would be a i Judicial inquiry; but if they went on j strike all Government works would be . closed down. j