GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 286, 27 August 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Telesraph-Preßß ABsooiatlon-OopytlirM A proclamation will be issued shortly declaring peace between tlhe- Commonwealth of Australia and Austria. A message from Sydney announces the death of the Hon. John Meagher, M.L.'C.' of New South Wales, at the ege of "81 years. ■ The Commonwealth Shipping Line has mado over .£1,000,000 profit since its inauguration neany three years ago. It lost heavily in 1919 owing to tho seamen's 6trike. A United Service message from London stfttfes that the strike fever has attacked football players, tho Salford Northern Union players demanding double last season's votes. Mr. W. M. Hughes has announced that the Federal Government is e introducing legislation to remedy the defect in tho system of levying duties on goods affected hy the foreign exchange. ■Mr. W. M. Hughes, Tefe.rring to Mr. Justice. Higgins's hint thai) he W about to retire, said it was most improper. The Judiciary and Parliament should ! not comment on each other's functions. The pension payments to Canadian war veterans for the year ending August 31 total twenty-five million dollars, and increases beginning on September 1 will mean an additional Sen million dollars next year. A message from Nome (Alaska) states that four United States Army aeroplanes have arrived there from New York. The actual flying time was 55 hours. The aeroplanes will start back to Now York in a few days. ' A Renter message from London states that a big athletic meeting between teams representing th'i British Empire and America has been fixtd for September i, at the Queen's Club. The athletes will be nsainlj thosfl who competed at tho Olympic Games. Dr. Cumpston, Federal Director of Quarantine, urged that practical s'Jeps should bo taken against preventable diseases. Tho Government should back up an elaborate scheme, and insist not only on competent medical advice, but on an efficient administrative staff to ensure that treatment was carried out. Mr. Storey, Premier of Now South Wales, has announced that the Labour candidate, Mr. Clear, runner-up in the Murray olectorai'e, will bo appointed to the vacancy in the State Houso_ of Representatives caused by tho resignation of Mr. Beeby after tho censnro debate is concluded. It is reported from Teheran that Persian Cossacks entered Resht ou Tuesday after defeating the Bolshevik Jangali force, killing thirty and capturing 500. Europeans in tlhe ' prisons at Resht were released. A body of Persian Cossacks defeated the Reds at Rustambad, the routed enemy fleeing northward. A serious rising against the Bolsheviks is reported from Daghestan. Tho British Association, for the Advancement of Science is holding its eighty-eighth meeting atf Cardiff. Professor Herdman, in a presidential address on Oceanography, said that "aquaculture" (farming of water) waa as. susceptible to scientific treatment as agriculture, and might become as necessary in order to meet the shortage in the world's food. * from Sydney states Wiat with the return of Mr. Bryant, Into Director of Soldifers' Settlements, who was recalled from London, a Royal Commission has commenced an inquiry into the administration under Mr. _ Bryant, The evidence so far taken indicates alleged malndminisftration of funds under a certain bonus system and ih other directions. One witness gave evidence that acting under Bryanfs instruct'ima lie supervised repairs to tho residence " J!>. Ash ford, then Minister of Lands, of whose Department the soldiers' settlements is a branch. Tho repairs cost £750.