GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 25, 25 October 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Tolegraph-Prees Assooiatwfl..OoDyriflrt

British summer time will end on the morning- of October 25. Alkopp and Sons, Burton-on-Trent, 'have purchased Hill 60, near Loos, and will establish a hotel there. A message from London states that Ranee Raar is shortly to appear at the Coliseum and render Maori folk songs and war chants. The I'Yeneh Finance Ministry announces the rejection of an American, syndicate's offer to purchase the French Government's tobacco 1 monopoly. A thousand emigrants from England for West Australia are booked per the Zealaudic, bat the ship's departure has been postponed indefinitely in consequence of a shipwrights' strike delaying reconstruction work, A Rome message states that the police arrested all the delegates attending the syndicalist Congress at Bologna, when was arranging for reprisals for the arrest of M,alatesta. The British India Company's steamer Main, from Hull for Australia, etranaed on a sandbank off t)eal durinsr a fog, but tugs refloated her at high water and she proceeded on her journey. Sir John Oakley, tho arbitrator on Lord Forster's claim against (he Londou County Council for the compulsory acquisition of. 131 acres near Catford for housing, awarded £31,529. Lord Forster claimed £79,000, and the Council offered £30,619. The Socialist and Anarchist Associations' Congress in Florence rejected a proposal for a general strike in Italy to continue until Malatesta is released, but issued a manifesto urging the workers and peasants to be ready in the e-'eut of tho establishment of a military dictatorship. The Young Men's Christian Association Convention in Sydney has ended. Messrs. J Royde and W". H. George were elected to represent. New Zealand on the National. Council. Motions were adopted commending the success of the association's work in industrial centres in Australia and New Zealand, and in favour of assistingGovernments in immigration matters. The State Department at "Washington has been informed that the proposed trade agreement between Canada and the West Indies will include the Bahama Islands. The Bahama Legislature has passed Bills increasing the tariff preferonce in favour of Canada. The Bill has not yet been ratified from London. The Australian general meeting of the Society of Friends resolved to appeal' to Mr. William Hughes and the Federal Parliament to lift the embargo placed on. trade with Central Europe, as the war being over, there was no good reason for continuing it. Australia, it was pointed out, was the only Allied nation which had not lifted the embargo.

The Bloemfontein Vrte State Nationalist Congress, on the motion of Mr. Hertzog, passed a resolution affirming the right of tfie Union at any time, by constitutional means to decide on its form of government, and alter the existing form in any way; acknowledging the right ,to secede from Britain, and to break any existing bond between the Union and Britain; and also opposing any closer Imperial Union.

A New York message says it is understood that the State Department will' not take any action to prevent British deportation proceedings against Costcllo, who was seized 1 by Scotland Yard officials in London. It is pointed out that it is known here that he had relations with, the BoMeyiks, and therefore, despite his Ainepean citizenship, the State Department does not feel it can protect him.