GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 17, 15 October 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

(By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright The British rifle team defeated a Queensland team at Enoggera at a special meeting, the scores 'being 1173 to 1114. The Britishers averaged 97.75 of thii possible. The Chamber of Commerce in Sydney huß receivod word from the London Postmaster-General stating that tho Peninsular and Oriental Company has agreed to a regular fortnightly English mail service from January. The principal Fiji firms, Morris and Bedstrom, Ltd., and Henry Marks and Co., Ltd., have amalgamated with a capital of a million sterling. A London message states that the King has knighted Colonel Grigj, who was Military Secretary to.the Prince of Wales during the recent tour. Major Boose, travelling commissioner of the Royal Colonial Institute, is proceeding to Australia and New Zealand on behalf of the institute. A Renter message from Poking states that General Li 6hun, Inspector-General of thei Iviaiig, Kiangsi, and Anhui provinces, committed suicide by shooting. It is announced, states a New York menage, that the American marines and Haitian' 1 police killed 3250 bandits during the five years' American occupation of Haiti. A message from Sydney states that the late rains have resulted in an abundance of feed in tho stock districts, and there is a greatly improved supply in the stockyards. Prices for both cattle and sheep have slumped considerably, and there is a further downward- tendency. It is reported! froiji London that a firm of bookmakera is suing Lord Loughborough to recover ,£440 due on a dishonoured cheque tendered in settlement of a racing bet. Lord _ Loughborough s, defence pleads the Gaming Act, adding that the cheque was not met because the trustees, hearing that Lord Loughborough was betting, refused to • advance the money.