GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 311, 25 September 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Teloeraph—Pross Association-Copyright Tho Govornor-General-elect of Australia, Lord Forster, and Lady Forster, huve urrived at Fremantle.."Pussyfoot" Johnson has landed at Plymouth, to assist in tho prohibition campaign in Scotland. Boston, Massachusetts, has. been placed on coal rations, as the result of the l'ucl shortage. Tho Zurich scismological station recorded a 6oismic disturbance on Monday, whose centre was 14,Qf.fJ kilometres distant, in tho Pacific, n irth-east (f Australia. Vaiulerbilt's racing stables atPoissy and Dcauvillo havo been sold to the .American sportsman,' Mr. Mac Comber, lor twelvo million francs. This is the largest transaction, ever made in racehorses. A message from Sydney states that the Cricket Board of Control has selected Armstrong to captain the first Australian test team, reserving the right to appoint a new captain for subsequent tests. A congress of over five hundred delegates of tho fciouth African Nationalise parties has. opened at • Bloemfontein, to consider the question of ieunion of the parties. Speakers urged that unless they stood together Bolshevism would sifccp over the land. Mr. .T. Daniels, Secretary of the United States Navy, has announced that Rear-Admiral Hughes will be sent to Samoa to investigate the alleged r.alndministratlon bv the Navy of American Sanioa. A Court of Inquiry. will assist Admiral Hughes. A New York message'states that a lighted stick of .dynamite was found in the Brooklyn tramway station. It is believed to havo been sec by striking tramway workers. The dynamite did not explode. It is announced from New York that the Bethlehem Steel Corporation has created a "Murine'Equipment l'und of twenty million dollars, to build ships to carry ore from Chile direct to the company's plant. It is estimated. that New York exporters' have purchased ten million bushels of wheat for European consumption, Spain alone took 3,500,000 bushel?, i The balance is going to Holland, Switzorlaud, Belgium, and Scandinavia. In tho New South Wales Legislative Assemblv, Mr. Lang, the' Treasurer, introduced" the Bill.providing for increased taxation on racecourse admission tickets as follows: Flat, 2d.; Leger stand, Ifld.i saddling paddock, 3s. - for males nnd Is. 7(1. for females; season-ticket". 40 per ■cent, of Iho cost of the tickct. Tlio Bill was read the third time. A New York message.states that, it is announced that all Japanese troops will be withdrawn from Siberia save onO division, which is policing the territory from Vladivostok to Makao, on the Manchurian-Siberian border. This division will be rcduced by ono brigade. In the New South Wales Legislative Assembly the Attorney-General, referring to the increases .granted to the coal miners, said action had been taken to see that thero was 110 unwarranted -increase in'the price of coal. If an increase were required application would have to bo mado to the commission. Tho Broken Hill Proprietary Company has decided to expend <£3,500,000 on extensive additions to its steel works at Newcastle, and to issue debentures and reserve' shares. Increased demand for steel by New Zealand, South Africa and other countries has necessitated the expansion.. . In the case heard in Sydney in which Graham Brothers, Ltd.. sought to recover ,£SOOO damages from the New South Wales' Country Press Co-opera-tive Company,' Ltd., for" "an" alleged breach of contract in connection with the supply of paper to the "Brisbane Courier" newspaper, plaintiff secured a verdict for .£912. A stay of proceedings was granted. At both the Presbyterian Church and Baptist Church .sessions now being held in Sydney, prominence lws been given to tlie industrial and social unrest and the need of -the churches' getting into better touch with the masses, recognising the duty of assisting in improving tlie social conditions, and also condemning tho proposed State lottery as likely to promote the already too rife, gambling spirit. A London ■ message states that _ Sirs. Bamberger, after a sensational trial at the Old Bailey, has been sentenced to imprisonment for. nino months for perjury. Mrs. Bamberzer, who is a nyeliv. voiiJig woman, told nil extraordinary series of lies in the Divorce Court. Women crowded the Old Bailey daily, nnd there were many emotional scenes. The evidence disclosed many unsavoury details of West-End life.