GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 245, 10 July 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

'———♦— ——■ •;. By Teleeraph-Presß ABJOciatlon-Oopyrlght Tho living ,wag» in New- South. Wales has.'been increased 18s.-... The Canadian Premiership was, offered to Mr. ~ Arthur. Meighe'u, because Sir. W. T. White unexpectedly, refused: the office.. , . .. '.. .. .■' ■'; '.''-." General Ricardo Gonzales, nephew of Pablo Gonzales, is lending, a rebellion against Huerta at Mondlora, in Coahiiila State,, Mexico. " .'; . ' : ' :! The .'Seamen's Conference at' Genoa' passed a resolution Applying tha draft convention on houre of labour to work in-inland'waters. '" The New South Wales Central Tableland Districts police have formed a nonpolitioal, association ".to , safeguard the welfare of the members. ,-• Tho. master of'the steamer Tarawera was fined .£5 at Sydney for failing io : keep efficient rat-guard discs between the vessel and the wharf.- ■:• . '■ • The executive of the;--New Sonth Wales Labour Party is inviting nominations of persons eligible under its rules for appointment-to the 'Legislative, Council;/ ' ; - '•-.' ••-. •■■ : ■ A conference of sporting bodies in ■ Sydney is endeavouring 'to determine the definition-'of "amateur," and has appointed' a .sub-committee to frame a ■report for-discussion on August 5. There is littlo likelihood of Prince of Wales opening or oven attending,tho New South Wales Parliament on August 10. It is considered that his . presence would create an awkward precedent. - The'.'Federal Minister of Customs, Mr. Massey Greene,. has,, declined . to increase'the price of butter from.2s. Id. to 35., explaining .that the Government will' shortly withdraw butter from the operation of price-fixing.. Professor Orme Mason, .chairman of tli'e Australian Institute of' Science, has .resigned as a protest against a proposal ;by .the Federal M inis,; ry, belittling the status of the! institute, and the members of. tbA council are also resigning. Owing to the serious competition of Japanese- . traders,- Australian onion-. growers are .seeking protection to the extent of £6 a ,\ton.l- Mr. . Massoy Greene, Federal Minister of Customs, is ascertaining' the cost pf production in Japan. . ; A United Service'message from London states that the Cardiff City Council has' decided to negotiate for the purchase of Cardiff Castie, with a view to offering it to the Prince of Wales as a Welsh homo. Questioned in tho House-of Commons whether the Australian and Canadian example would bo followed in raising politicians' salaries and providing a free railway pass, Mr. Bonar Law said the Government would not'adopt the-sugges-tion. •_'A Sydney message-states that Mr. Justice Gordon, in Chambers, refused un application by a friend of tho Father's for a writ of habeas corpus for the release of Father Jerger, stating that ' Father ' Jergcr should 'personally make application. Leave was given to mention the matter again.' Further inquiries in tho Fallini case show that Fallini took.Mrs. Birkett's. boy to Watson's Bay about tho date of the.alleged murder and invited him to look over The Gap, the famous "suicide sanctuary," but the boy refused. On the following day, Fallini took a bundle of clothes belonging, to tho boy's mother to a house in Woolloomoojoo, and destroyed them. . , . .