GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 123, 17 February 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

(By T«leer»ph-Preß« A»»oclatlon--Oo»rrlsM Lord Milner has been created a Knight of the Garter.

The police at Naples seized a million and a half of gold roubles aboard the steamer Anconia, bound for London.

A Reuter message from Delhi states that the betrothal of Mohammed Hassan Mirza, heir apparent and brother of the Shah of Persia, to Princess Meliena is officially announced.

The Felton Bequest has purchased for the Melbourne Art Gallery Glyn Philpot’s "Portrait of a Child,” a beautiful picture. Mr. Philpot is one of the best figure painters in England.

Mr. Daniels (Secretary of the United States Navy) has announced that a member of the crew of the Presidential yacht Mayflower has been arrested in connection with a bomb plot to blow up the vessel.

The New South Wales Parliamentary Labour Part}- passed a motion in favour of the retention of proportional representation by a considerable majority. The decision needs ratification by the Labour Conference, which last year requested its repeal.

The Italian. Government is issuing a loan of a milliard lire at 5 per cent., to be devoted to the devastated areas. The Pope has sent 56,000 lire to relieve Fiume’s poor.l

A Reuter message from Paris states that the police unearthed a bind engaged in pillaging British war stores. Goods valued at 300,060 francs were found in the residences of ten of the 'band. The leader was arrested at Hazebrouck after a desperate struggle, in which the bandit wounded an inspector.

Senator Borah has offered an amendment to the United States Naval Appropriation Bill providing for calling a disarmament conference between the United States, Great Britain, and Japan.

A Reuter message from Cairo states 'that some of the secondary schools, which were closed because they were 'being used for political purposes, have been reopened, many of the parents of students giving the guarantees required by the Government.

Advices from St. Paul received at New York state that a series of spectacular failures of thirty banks reached a climax when a huge Scandinavian-American bank closed, involving millions of dollars. There is no estimate of the losses, says a Reuter message. Farmers in the Middle West were caught last autumn with immense stocks of wheat which cost them more than the slumped prices would have realised. The farmers had been hanging or hoping for a better market, while the banks were unable to carry them and found it impossible to liquidate the farmers’ paper.'

A Reuter message from Paris states that the existence of a luminous zone or aura emanating from the human body, which Dr. Kiluer, an Englishman, claims to have rendered visible by means of a chemical substance, making the retina sensible to t'he radiations, is regarded by French scientists as a most important discovery. Rene Soudre, lecturing at the International Metaphysical Institute, declared that abundance of proofs left hardly a doubt about the discovery. M. Berthoulat, a member of the institute, is of the opinion that the radiations probably are physical, like odours or the phosphorescence of plants, not metaphysical. ■ ■