GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 23, 22 October 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

(By Telegraph-PreßS Aesociation-OoDyrteht The Earl of Liverpool has been appointfcd a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath. Both parties to the municipal etriko at Broken Hill have compromised on an increaso of wages, and work was resumed to-day. An earldom has been conferred on Viscount. Buxton for his services in South Africa. The Dutch Government has prohibited the manufacture of cheese from November 1, eioept where surplus milk is not required for distribution. It is reported from Vancouver that an. enormous popular majority substitutes Government sale for prohibition, in British Columbia. A Paris message reports that the Court of Cassation has finally found in favour of M. Esnault Pelterie, tha inventor of the aeroplane joystick. This presumably entitles him to enforce claims amounting to' (about twenty million francs in royalties.

A Sydney message states that the - Country Press Conference has affirmed tho desirability of having newsprint manufactured in. Australia, and will do all in its power to assist an approved movement to that end, both financially and as consumers of the product.

Connie Ediss, the well-known actress is the first prominent person in England] to undergo the thyroid-gland treatment. In an interview she said that she was feeling rundown after her return from Australia, and a doctor suggested the thyroid-gland treatment. Describing the operation, she said she felt as though a red-hot poker had been run under her skin. Later she revived, and felt sht» must be on. the move. "With full strength and energy I scamper across the fields, and' want to climb trees like a monkey. X don't feel anything like fifty."