GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 37, 8 November 1920, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

<'By Teleßra.ph-.PTcn Assocla^on-Oopsr-leto

Tho Gorman Minister of Railways announccs tlmt tho deficit on the Stato railways exceeds twenty milliards of marks.

Tho prica of gold in London is £6 net Z n u lh " United $ utßi i 3 tak i»& «"> Hinall quantity offered. 6

, The Australian Comnntteo in London is puking satisfactory progress in chartering steamers for the carriage of wheat and is also selling a quantity of wheat '

fi, ™' ace ' a , Labour member of the British House of Commons, has- been appointed Labour adviser to uho new liepartment of Minos.

The Great Western Railway in Ireland dismissed 3000 employee* owing to their ictusal to handle munitions, and the boileruiakers' strike.

The Orsovn, which has arrived at Plymouth from Australia, reports that I nomas Kelly a passenger bound for Ireland, jumped overboard twice within twelve.hours. Boats were lowered and rescued Kelly, who was swimming vigorously. '

Cyclomc storms have again caused d/m----ngj in Southern Queensland. The fruitgrowing districts of Stanthorpo and tho wheat crops in Warwick are faring badly. Many private houses were unroofed at Jpswich.nnd several unregistered racehorses were killed.

The Licenses Seduction Board has decided to cancel tho licenses of sixteen .Sydney city hMels from June 30 next. This is the first instalment. The existing hotels number 314, and the maximum possible reduction is 78.

/■■ V B, „ D - Hanna - manager of the Uuadian Government Mercantile Marino lias announced that tho Government's licet, ot 77 ships is ready to inaugurate services between Canada and foreign covntnes. •

A Berlin tblegrani states that the Gern»m Government's reason for closing the universities, of Hnlle, Greifswald, and Aun burg is to enable it to make provision to hnance the Cologne, Bonn, Heidelberg and Karlsruhe Universities

Lord Knutsford announces that the London Hospital, the biggest in Great Britain, will be closed at the New Year. Already there is n deficit of iIOO.OOO, and it is impossible to meet the immense increases in fhe cost of running on a voluntary basis. •■ State aid, he says, is essential.

Ihe following Australians are exhibiting at the Eoyal Society of I'r.t trail Painters at London:—Messrs. Coatcs, Qutn, Birley, Lust, Bess,. Norris, Jfiss Dora Mecson. A noteworthy feature is on exceptionally fine painting' by Mr. Contra called "King Lear," and a portrait ot tho Cornto de Soissons by Mr. guiu.

The Commonwealth "Gazette" invites Applications for new offices to bo created under the German Now Guinea and Muni Island mandates. The salary of the Administrator of Now Guinea is fixed at, .£IBOO, and that of tho Judge at with quarters. For Nauru, an Administrator is required at a salary of .21000, with quarters

The Paris correspondent of the London "Sunday Express" states that a great sensatiion has been, caused by the stewards at the Saint Cloud races' suspending, until the end of the year, the American crack jockey, Frank O'Neill, for alleged foul riding. O'Neill rodo Spion Kop in the Derby.

One of llie most curious war sequels is tho case of a much-wounded Buckinghamshire man who long ago applied for a pension. After some delay he'va6 informal that he was dead. He replied denying the accusation, but the. correspondence was abruptly closed by the War Office giving him the number of lis grave and its location. He now objects to paying income tax.

Thousands of women teachers in London and provincial schools made a demonstration in Trafalgar Square during dense fog, demanding equal pay for equal work. They protested against thescale of salaries recommended by the Committee of Investigation, over which Lord Burnham presided. In spits of this demonstration, a conference of the National Union of Teachers by 64,982 votes to 37,547 adopted Lord Burnham's report.

The Prince of Wales, in a speech at the Grenadier Gnards'. Sergeants' Club dinner, said that during his Empire tour lie met many Diggers. They wcro the best of fellows, who expressed great admiration- for tho Grenadier Guards. The latter had played a -great role in the Empire's history. He was also proud, of his colonelship of tho Welsh Guards, and, asked the Grenadiers to welcome Welsh Guardsmen as their younger brothers.

In reply to Judge Edmunds's invitation to members of the New South Wales Parliament to give evidence before -the Commission on tho question of salaries and expenses, the Lender of the Progressive Party has written to Judge Edmondi stoting than no member of the patty will take any part in the proceedings, on tho following grounds:—That the members arc responsible to the electors only; that the Legislature is competent and it is essentially its duty to fix allowances; that the holding of the'inquiry is a degradation of Parliament.

Officials of .the Australian Workers' Union and the Farmers'• Association ore cir.iicismg each other over harvesting work in a manner reminiscent of the shearing dispute. Mr. Lambert, secretary of tho Workers' Union, says that halves-ting is impossible without the assistance of his mombers Mr. Campbell, secretary of the Fanners' Association, replies that the' farmers -pill rely upon .volunteer labour from tho city and country. Tho Acting-Premier of New South Wales (Mr. Doolcy) has intervened, and has made a statoment that the Labour Government is pledged to arbitration. No party is able to say off-hand what the workers should or should not cot.