GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 21, 20 October 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

—-—♦- ■ (By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyricht The Anglican Synod at Perth read a second time a Bill enabling women to •act as churchwardens and vestrymen. The New South Wales Cricket Association has decided that for tho test matches the admission charges will bo 3s. and 2s. Ida lieutoul (Mrs. Outwaite), an Australian artist, had a successful exhibition iln Paris. The Press favourably notice her work. Princess George of Greece bought several pictures. The Premier of New South Wales has received a report from an ex-Australian journalist who has been visiting Czechoslovakia, stating that the Republic Ministers are anxious to trade in Australian wool, either purchasing on long-term credits, or converting it into textiles and being paid by results. * The New South Wales Minister of Railways (Mr. J. Estcll) opened the Henty to Billabong railway, which has been built to open up a large area of wheat country. The -farmers undertook to pay one per cent, interest on the construction money, the rate of which was advanced by that extent after the Esti- ' mates had been drawn up. A Londbu message states that in tho case in which a firm of bookmakers sued Lord Loughborough (of the Ministry of Pensions) to recover .£4lO due on a dishonoured cheque tendered in settlement of a racing bet, a verdict was given for l,ord Loughborough on the ground that the transaction was a gaming one. Lord Loughborough, in his defence, pleaded the Gaming Act, adding that the cheque was not met because his trustees, hearing he was betting refused to advance the monoy.