GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 228, 21 June 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright A cargo of five thousand tons of phosphate rock has arrived at Swansea from Nauru. The death is announced of Mr. William Kearsley, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Newcastle. Women again were prominent in the Cambridge tripos lists, five receiving first-class honours in. history, three firsts in part 11, two in classics, while a Girton girl heads the entire law list. Frank Boulanger, a wealthy resident of Kansas, has filed a petition in divorce, naming Dempsey, the heavy-weight champion, as co-respondent. Dempsey denies that he ever xu’et the persons concerned in the divorce. A Sydney message states that the Profiteering Court has reduced the wholesale prices of kerosene and benzine by a shilling a case, to IDs. and 295., respectively. / An All-Austral i A Unions’ Conference has opened in Melbourne. Over four hundred delegates are present, representing industrial and Labour political organisations in all the States. ' A London message states that Mr. Hughes has received- from Australia particulars of tho debate in the House of Representatives on the suggestion that ho should attend the League of Nations meeting nt Geneva, in September. After reading the message, Mr. Hughes said: “I have no intention whatever of staying for tho League of Nations meeting.”