GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 138, 7 March 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. Saxon won the long jump at Cambridge sports, jumping 21? feet.

' A message from Yokohama states that Prince Hirohito, the Crown Prince of Japan, has sailed for England.

Mr. Massey Greene, Federal Minister of Customs, reviewing the sugar situation, stated that there were no prospects of a reduction inside a year

Tho wallaby presented to the Prince of Wales by the New South Wales Government has arrived at London by tho Orsova and been handed over Ur thr Zoo.

Thieves climbed the tower of Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, and cpt away a section of the lightning conductor, containing most valuable platinum and copper.

A message Trom Buenos Ayres states that legislation providing for an increased tariff on North American products has been introduced in the Chamber of Deputies.

Discussions in the House of Commons on the Public Prosecutor’s estimates elicited that the King’s Proctor had intervened in 88 divorces during the year, the decree xiiei being rescinded in eaeh. case.

At a farewell dinner friends presen> ed Mr. Hooper, the Australian billiard* ist with a gold watch, suitably in* scribed. Mr. Hooper, in acknowledging the gift, said he had received nothing but kindnpss from the whole billiard fraternity.

Referring to the new Federal Health! Department, Mr. Massey Greene, who is Minister in charge, stated that the Government was anxious to establish labora-' lories in the various centres to serve as distributing depots for serums manufactured by tho Government.

A New York message states, that Mrs. Harding has eliminated soup from th® White House luncheon menus, having re-, cently joined the Society of United States Housewives for the object of saving ’money for the help of the famine sufferers in China. Her first contribution was the inauguration luncheon soup money.