GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 127, 22 February 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. A great timber lire at. the Antwerp docks damaged warehouses to the extent of eeven million francs.

The premises of AVatson’s, Universal Providers, Petersham. (Sydney), were gutted by fire. The damage is estimated at .£20,000.

Sydney is threatened with a serious milk shortage. The distributing companies yesterday received only 2000 gallons, instead of the usual 42,000 gallons. A Reuter message from Delhi states that the Legislative Assembly has adopted a resolution in favour of the ratification of the Washington Labour Convention. It. negatived a motion in favour of making the labour ago of children eleven instead of twelve years, and agre c to legislate giving effect to the convention.

Tho Paris correspondent of.the London “Times” states that a smart impostor from Florian, styling himself Don And™ de Farmas, posing as a nephew ot the Spanish Ambassador and as employed by the American Society for the of Emigrants, was entrusted with three hundred thousand francs to bny ticket for Jewish emigrants. He pnlmexl off bogus tickets and Hew with the spoils by aeroplane to Berlin, where he hoaxed a jeweller for half a million francs worth of diamonds, and again fleiv o , but was.arrested at Hamburg.