GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 24, 23 October 1920, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES

(By Telegrapli-PresE Aanociation-Copyrir'flt The Rifle Association meeting at Sydney opened yesterday in fine weather. Ihere we& record entries (Sis), the competitors including Ne.w Zealand and British teams. The Britishers and New 'Zealnnders are camped on the rangij. Yesterday's matches were only of local interest. . The United States War Department announces that five college education will bo available to enlisted men in the autumn of next year. - Thirty-nine institutions are willing to give free tuition ;ind some will also contribute towards other expenses. Fifty-two will grant tuition at a reduced cost, and seventy-three lire.willing\to co-operate, but it is not (■tated in what way. Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese Minister to the United States, is loaving to take up a post in London. In a message to tho American people he snid: "China is suffering from tile Propaganda of otlrer Powers, and not lieing proficient in these ir.cth.ods, finds it difficult to hold 'la world's faith in her." He is .confident that in the last analysis the nations vill align, themselves according to their inherent character. A report comes fronv Winnipeg that grain 'growers are very perturbed, over the ■ Government's decision not to reestablish the Wheat Control Board, which operated during the war. Grain is not moving owing to elevators in the interior being congested, and there are no buyers. The grain growers insist that the Government can take over the crops and finance them until buyers want stock. A fire occurred on a train which was conveying' tho Prince of Wales's bloodstock from Stirlingshire to Cornwall. It destroyed a bull, Collynie Master Lavender, which cost the Prince 3000 guineas on Saturday. A cow, Boquhan Violet, which cost'ls6o guineas, was roasted to death in a blazing horsebox A keeper had a very narrow escape, crawling along a footboard and hanging on until the train slowed down. Mr. Herbert Palmer, stockbroker, in his evidence before a Select Committeo of the ''New South .-Waled Legislative Council, which is- inquiring into tho wheat pool operations on the Stock Exchange, said that considerable- injury ha-1 been caused woolgrowcrs by the disciuieHng pessimistic warnings of Ministers at the time of the armistice. Owing to lb." Central Board's announcement buyers were frightened off, and scrip which brought' fivepence was subsequently sold at Is sd. The shrinkage in the market value totalled .£1,700,000.