GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 203, 22 May 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Tolesraph-PreFß Association-Copyright j The prohibition referendum in Queens j land will be taken on. October 30. ! American exports fell off by 135 mil- .' lion dollars in April, as compared with j March, and the imports dropped by 30 millions. ■ . i The family endowment scheme of Mr. M'Girr. New South Wales, Minister of \ Health, will involve an increase of 100 . '. per cent, in taxation. J A committee has been formed in Sydney I to consider -the establishment of ' a i State Gland Opera Company and the i erection of a Slate Opera House, , • • \ The Sydney Labour Council has decided j to resort to arbitration to secure a forty- j four-hour week. j A Sydnoy messago slates that the «*•.-. \ tate of tho late Sir Thomas Anderson j Stuart, who was for many years Dean ■• j of the faculty of Medicine at Sydney University, is valued at =£42,754' A London message states that the Government has offered eleven'acres behiud the British Museum as a site for Loudon ' University. The laud is worth ,£1,000,(M, but the national finances will not' permit the Government to provide pre- : mises. . i At the Wages Board's inquiry regard-. ;) ins the British railway men's claim for ' increased pay, the accountant of a com- •; 'pany produced figures to show that the j cost, of the increased wages over those '.! paid before the war was already one ! hundred millions. The new claim would ■; involve y a further thirty-live millions. ■ The New York "Times" states that \: seven detective?, three miners, one agita- j tor, and the. Mayor were killed in a ye- ••; volver fight at Matewan, West Virginia. ; The trouble arose from an attempt by ; detectives to eject from_ their frontier \ liomcs the families of miners who were ; on strike, and shooting became general. The situation became quiet early in tho night. •