GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 57, 1 December 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By TeloeraDli-Vroas Usooiation-OoDyrtehl A message from Tangier elates that a huge waterspout broke over the town, causing Hoods. Buildings collapsed, and several people were drowned. The Australian federal Ministry ifl sending a detective to the. Malay Peninsula to investigate reports respecting discoveries of tin at Badak. Tho British Supplementary Estimates, amounting ta nine millions ami a half, will be presented in the House of ComUlOll3 to-day. They includo three millions and a half for relief works. A Sydney message states that oaten and wheaten "cuts," which recently wore selling for 16s. a hundredweight, are now at 83. Farmers are finding the cost of cutting exorbitant, and have over-supplied the -market. Hunt and Parker have been welcomed home in Sydney. Hunt said ho was nearly three stone.above his weight at Antwerp. Parker said that motor-cycling found more favour at Antwerp than swim, ming or athletics. The King and Queen of Denmark, accompanied by their niece, Princess Margaret (daughter of." Prince Valdemarl, wore due to arrive in London yesterday on a private visit to Their Majesties. Humour has lately been busy with the names of the Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret, who is an attractive girl of twenty-live. Tho Bishop of Batlmrst, Dr. Long, severely criticised clergymen who absent* cd themselves from the final session of the Anglican Synod, saying that if they were giving tho Kingdom of God second place to other inlerc-vs it was obvious they wore not the men to do tho work of God. Mr. Clapp, chairman of the New South Wales l'ailway Commissioners, scouts all. "ingenious inventions" designed to orcrcom/ "Hie break? of gauge difficulty on the, Australian railways. He contends that tho unification of the gauge i 3 the only solution, which view is shared by all Australian experts. Mr. J. T. Lang-, New South Wales, Treasurer, in introducing the new taxa«' tion proposals in tho Legislative Assembly yesterday, said they veer to provide an extra penny a ]K>uud tax on incomes over JE7SO, graduated higher rata on incomes over JEIOOO, and a gustantial. increase on icomes derived from property; and company dividends.