GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 222, 14 June 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph-Press Assooiation-OopyrißM The Sydney iron trades employees, by a four to one majority, decided in favour of no Saturday work.

Madame Melba is to give a wireless telephone concert on Tuesday from tho Marconi station at CheSmsford. It is ■expected that her voice will roaoh Madrid, Rome, Stockholm, and Warsaw. The songs will include an air from "La Boheme" and "Home, Sweet Home."

A Renter message from London announces that Mr. Lkyd George stated in! the House of Commons that tho Government had received a communication from China in regard to tho renewal of tho Anglo-Japanese Alliance, bnt could not puMish it at present. '

A conference between representatives of Canada and tho West Indies resulted in an agreement for an extended steamship service, the enlargement of mutual trade preferences, and improved cable facilities. The West Indies agrees to defray part of the loss on' the steamships.

■The final auction in London of surplus Australian clothing >md stores brought satisfactory prices. Tho small remaining Australian military administrative staff is now entirely located at Australia House, and is steadily diminishing. The Inst members will leave for homo in September.

The Sydney Labour Conforenje has decided, in view of the monopoly in the production and distribution of woollen goods, that the State be • requested to establish wootlen mills, or alternatively to empower municipalities to do so. It also instructed the Labour Party to repeal the preference to soldiers' legislation, as the underlying principle was iniquitous and impracticable.