GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 152, 23 March 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

(By Tclcgraph-PrcßS Association-Copyright Mr. W. A. Callaway, Victorian Undersecretary, has arrived in London.

The Colonial Royal Institute’s annual dinner has been postponed until June 30 to enable Dominion Ministers to be present. The Duke of Connaught will preside. The Prince of Wales will attend.

Mr. Poynton states that a committee has been Appointed to conduct a. special inquiry into the administration of the Cockatoo Island Docks. He declined to disclose the nature of the inquiry, but he admitted that serious charges had been made. . '

A. Renter message from London states that a Zionist delegation, headed by Dr. Weizmann, will proceed to America on Thursday to open a twenty-five million sterling fund to initiate the establishment of a national home in Palestine.

A Reuter message from Paris states that Airs. Lowe, the wife of Gordon Towe the tennis player, has been arrested at the Cannes tennis courts charged with stealing a pocketbook said to contain five thousand francs.

According to tho "Manchester Guardian’s” correspondent at Reval, the Treaty recently signed between the Russian Soviet Government and Afghanistan. while recognising complete Afghan independence, practically turns the Afghan Goverment into an institution subsidised by Russia. The Afghan Government will be given an annual allowance of a million roubles in gold or silver. The most important clause as far Britain is concerned is one which binds the contracting parties not to enter into a military or political agreement with a third Power which will lie detrimental to one of the contracting parties. —Reuter.