GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 300, 13 September 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Te!egraph"Pr«6S ABsociation-Gopyriirlit The Commonwealth Peace Loan has passed ,£23,000,000. . The Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd.. with a capital of .£20,000,000, has been registered. The London "Gazette" notifies tho voluntary liquidation of Sir Thomas Beech,ani's Opera Company. Lord Dudley received .£750,000 for Witley Court, his Worcestershire seat, at Stourport, which was sold recently. Mr. GarneTf, metallurgist aT Sheffield University, announces the discovery of cobalt in a peak in Derbyshire/' The New Zealand athlete,.Davidson, at the-Loudon Athletic Club sports at Stamford Bridge, won a short limit handicap with a half-yard 6tart in 10 seconds. The reconstitution of the Australian Wheat Board lias been practically completed. A contract for the supply of 300,000 tons of wheat: for Egypt is under consideration. Tho Sopwith Works in' England have closfd down and paid .-ff fourteen-hun-dred -workpeople. 'The works experienced difficulties duo to a slump in the motor-' cycle trade. Mr James, Federal representative for Goulbnrn (N.S.W.), and an ex-Minister of Education, has teen offered a judgeship by the Prime Minister. ,Mr. James's decision is awaited.

It is officially stated flint the strike at Lourenco Marques is practically over. Twenty-four strike • leaders have teen transferred to anothor part of the province. A Paris cablegram reports the death of Olive Thomas, the moving picture actress. She ami her husband (Jack Pick' ford) had been doing a 'round of Paris gaieties, and her nerves broke down. Mr. Theodore, Premier of Queensland, in a policy speech, said the Government hoped to float a local loan. If it was unsuccessful ho would resort to increased taxation rather than curtail the public works. It is announced at Philadelphia that the Australian alumni of Pennsylvania University have raised'lo,ooo dollars for the «stablishnient of a -scholarship 'in tli(e Pennsylvania Dental School for Australian University graduates. According to a Berlin cablegram, Herr Dittmnn, of the independent Socialist delegation to the Moscow Internationale, states that Soviet statistics show that there, are 230,000 -male and female Soviet officials in Moscow, but scarcely 100,000 workmen. It is regarded as probable (states a Sydney message) that six tennis players will be available to visit New Zealand at the end of the year. The New South AVales selectors are endeavouring to collect a representative team, which it is suggested may compete at the New Zealand cliampionships on January 3 and i. The United States Federal Shipping Beard reports that the Leviathan (tho ox-German liner Vaterland) has so badly deteriorated that it will require at least eight million dollars to repair her. The vessel is aground at Hoboken, and it is considered doubtful if she will again appear at sea,

The Berlin correspondent of Renter's Agency says that a Prussian Junker who recently paid a visit to the ex-Kaiser at his homo in Doorn, tells the following story: "This is the way heads will fly right and left when I return to Germany," exclaimed Wilbelui, .dealing' furious blows with a hatchet as he felled trees on his estate.—Reuter. ■ 'A message from Peking; 'states that Yurin, Commercial Commissioner from the Vercbnieudinsk, Siberian Government, has arrived in Peking for the-pur-pose of establishing trade relations between Siberia and China. Yurin conferred with the Chinese Foreign Office, although he was not officially received. It is reported that the French Minister has advised against formal negotiations. According to the July number of the "Isvestia," the official organ of the Moscow Soviet, thte Bolsheviks have opened a propaganda bureau in Australia, the head of which is Peter Shnonoff. fit Syd-. noy. Ho will take all necessary measures for the restoration of tradine between Australia and Russia. Simonoff will publish a monthly journal acquainting Australia of Bolshevik doings. II: is announced that more than 3000 Chinese who entered the Philippines from Borneo, in violation of the immigration laws, will bo deported in accordance with a decision of the Philippine Council. It is stated that the Chinese introduced large quantities of opium into Mindanao, and afterwords distributed It throughout tho Philippines. The territorial authorities are much concerned at 'the existence of a big opium trade, and will take drastio measures to wipe it t out.