GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 210, 31 May 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

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A London message,announces that Bottington, the Australian, has been awarded his cricket blue at Oxford.

A message from London 6tates that Sir, J. T. Wilson, Chnllis professor of Sydney, haß been' elected to the professorship of anatomy at Cambridge.

Advices received at Paris from Syria stato that a French column hae retaken Aintab, inflicting heavy losses on the Turks.

A London messago states that apart from four official delegates the Japan<se mission to the Labour Congress consists of fifty-three officials and experts. The German and British missions consist of eighteen each.

Tho One Big Union Conference at Perth decided that its ranks shall be open to Maori? and negroes, but not to Asiatics, and also that 110 discrimination ohall be made between workers receiving waxes and. salaries.

The Entomological Conference at London will open to-morrcw. Tho delegates include: Professor Watt, of Sydney, and Dr. Tilyard, of New Zealand. Professor Balfour Browne, of Cambridge, will represent Queensland.

The University Congress at Sydney has decided in favour of a new matriculation test for adults, differing in character, but not in standard, from the existing lest, and available to all over 25 years of age.

According to a message 'from Amsterdam, the ex-ICaiser is cutting out the patterns for new suit's for his own use, and is said to excel at the job. A newspaper remarks that it is ■unfortunate that Wilhelm has missed his vocation.

A Paris messago to tho London "Times" states that 11. Millerand has ordered unionist State officials to withdraw from the Confederation of Labour on account of its revolutionary character. The Government is legislating to give its officials the right of combination, but forbidding membership'of industrial federations.

At the Lord Mayor of London' 6 banquet to the masters of the City Guilds at tho Mansion Hause, fiir George Riddell, in propcsing the health of Mr. E., G. Theodore (Premier of Queensland), said he was a btilliant and distinguished Australian, and added that at the Peaco Conference he was so struck with the fact that the most homesick were Australians and New Zealauders that if over lie emigrated he would go to one of those countries. The overseas representatives at Paris had a direct way of speaking, which was rather novel, and not according to old-fashioned European customs, but they rendered very great service.