GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 206, 26 May 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

(By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Tho Premier of New South Wales has announcod that tho King's Birthday will be celebrated in that on June 9,. not the 3rd. A Sydney message states that the P. and 0. Company is building two 20,000ton vessels. These will bo tho largest liners south of tho Equator. They will -burn oil fuel.The New .South Wales pool lias increased tho price of butter by threepence per pound, and is resorting to' oold storage stocks. Tho inter-Sbite/ position is bad and tho assistance of New South Wales is being sought. A Reuter message from Paris states that a Government Bill has been draft ed providing for a Government monopoly, of all corn imports, and tho requisition-, ing of all home-grown corn for three years at a fixed minimum price. In connection with the Chinese deficit, serious trouble is anticipated «if the troops are not paid nest month. Tho soldiers already are unpleasantly restive, while the reactionaries are conducting intensive propaganda against the new financial consortium. In the South African House of Assembly, Sir Thomas Watt stated that, for the year ended March 31, the railways showed a deficit of J2G17.000. The increased rates sinco 1916 produced .£0,000,000. It was intended to ereot grain elevators at Durban and Cape Town and seventy-one inland, capable of dealing with 1,250,000 tons. Details of tho King of Greece's secret marriage to Mdlle. Manos show that thelatter belongs to a patrician family. King Alexander formed a romantic attachment with her in his boyhood, not expecting to succeed to tho Throne. He persisted in marrying her in 1919, despite the Greek law.

Prince Henry won the cup for tentpegging at tlio Oxford and Cambridge" tournament at Olympia. He was the only competitor to take all three pens. Ho also rode in tho winning Cambridge team in tho riding and jumping competitions.

A Eeuter message fgrom Peking states that the Cabinet has ordered the drafting of regulations for placing tho exGerman, concessions of Hankow and Tientsin under Chinese municipal authorities. It is stated that the Gov eminent intends to establish model Chinese settlements in order to pave_rhe way for the eventual abolition of the 6ystem of extrn-territoriality.