GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 213, 3 June 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright

It is announced by a London message that the estnte of Charles Garvice, novelist, amounts to £11,019.

Tho London "Daily Mail" lias opened a fund for tho sufferers by tho floods, heading' tho list with .£IOOO.

A Hobart message states that a movement is afoot to form ono big union of all State Government employees.

The New South Wales Cabinet has decided to reinstate the.- railwaymen dismissed on account of the 1917 strike.

A Renter messago from l'okio states that the Government 'is supplying millions to prevent further bank suspensions. Conditions are improving.

It is reported from Vera. Cruz that nil public buildings and places in the city have been closed on account of an outbreak which is believed to bo bubonic plague.

The Sydney wharf labourers are demanding the release of the I.W.W. prisoners within a month, failing which a 6top-\voi'k meeting will be held to consider what action will bo taken.

It is announced from Sydney that tho General Steamships Corporation of San Francisco tlas arranged a cargo service, between San Francisco,- Honolulu, and Australia, commencing on Juno 10. i

An Indianapolis message stales that Gaston Chevrolet (Frauce) won the 500milo automobile championship, Do Pahna, the American holder of tho speed title, losing owing to his car catchinj lire. An average speed of ninety miles per hour was maintained.

Five hundred stovemakers have been dismissed by Matters, Ltd.. Sydney, In consequence of friction between employers and employees owing to tho latter frequently holding 6top-work meeting? \v itli a view to enforcing their demands. The employers became irritated at the repeated interruptions to tho work, and thereupon issued dismissal notices.

A message from Cairo to the London "Times" states thut tlie decision of Saghlul, the Nationalist leader, to send three of his colleagues' to London to confer vritli the Government beforo tho Milner Mission reports 1 is regarded as likely to effect some settlement of the national question. The extremists oppose the decision, but the majority of Egyptians are sick of fruitless agitations and anxious for a relaxation of tho military precautions, and will welcoino a compromise.