GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 266, 4 August 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Preu Association— Copyright Influenza of a severe> type has broken out in Tonga. The Queensland Legislative Assembly will meet on Tuesday next. The Poplar Borough Council is appealing against the writ of attachment issued against members for refusing to strike a rate to meet the London County Council’s levy of The Premier of New South Wales, Mr. Storey, has announced that the Assembly will meet on August 30. A Chicago jury acquitted fifteen ball players and alleged go-betweens tried in connection with the "fixing” of the 1919 world series of baseball competitions. A message from Washington states that despite national prohibition, five million dollars’ worth of liquors were imported during the fiscal year ended June, including 195,000 gallons mostly imported from Britain and two million gallons of wine from France. A Reuter message from Brussels states that the chamber of Representatives has adopted a Bill enabling women to become burgomasters, aldermen, and rate collectors. Married women must obtain their husbands’ permission before accepting posts. The Bill excludes women from the police service,-. Lord Crewe, in the House of Lords, as a protest against the attempt to tush through important legislation in order to avoid an autumn session, moved that the Horse of Lords decline to proceed with any Bills not yet read a first time, until tht? end of October. The motion was rejected by 104 to 89.