GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 255, 22 July 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Dublin University has unanimously elected Mr- do Valera Chancellor. Sir Richard Butler has been unanimously elected Speaker of the South Australian Legislative Assembly. At Newark in New Jersey “Mickey" Walker, a local welter-weight, out-point-ed Jack Britton in a hard-fought twelverounds bout. In the Federal Cenate opposition t*'wards the Tariff Board is brewing. The second reading of the Bill was carried by 10 votes to 11. A delegates’ meeting of the London transport workers agreed to a reduction in dockers’ wages by 2s. daily immediately-, and another shilling in January-. Mr. Bertram Mackennal, the Australian sculptor, has been knighted. Tho ceremony took place at Buckingham Palace, where tho honour was conferred privately. The famous Fontainebleau Forest, in France, was on fire by lightning, and threatened with destruction, when a heavy- downpour of rain extinguishd the flames. A Brisbane message states that the warden is recommending the Minister to refuse the Mount Morgan Company’s application for exemption from working conditions. Moulders refused to resume work at Cockatoo Island unless the wages were increased, stating that at present they are earning more than tho island rates ■with private firms. The London “Daily Express” states that Aden is being transferred from the control of the Government of India to that of the Colonial Office, which will effect a saving of T 300.000 yearly in the cost of administration. Claims have lieen submitted in Sydney on 'behalf of domestics in club**, hoardinghouses, and private residences, asking for a forty-eight hour week, and increased rates of pay-, ranging from £5 7s. 6d. for cooks, to £2 14s. for housemaids. Tho secretary of the Victorian Labour Party states that ho will move nn amendment in tho Legislative Assembly with a view to amalgamating the Farmers’ Party and the Labour Party in indictments against the State Government. A London messace states that Mr. XV. W. Bowring, of Christchurch, has presented the Victoria Longue with a portrait of the Dowager Countess .of .Terser, which he painted as a recognition of the league’s kindness to overseas visitors. Tzird Gorell accepted the presentation on behalf of the league.