GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 274, 13 August 1921, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

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.Mr. J. 1. Macpherson (British Minister of Pensions) slated in the House of Commons that 46.150 war pensioners Imd died since disability pensions were granted.

The British Government has authorised the inauguration of a fortnightly air mail service between Cairo and Bagdad, operated • by the Royal Air Force. For the present it will be confined to official correspondence.

. The Sydney hotelkeepers are organising a stand against the brewers extending the tied-house system to the wine and spirit trade. It. is stated that 75 per cent, of the hotels in New South Wales are tied.

At Birmingham, Alabama, the Rev, Edwin Stephenson, a Methodist minister, shot nnd killed Father James Coyle, a Catholic priest, because the latter married Stephenson’s daughter Ruth to a Catholic young man.

Tho “New York Times” financial expert; estimates that since January 1, 410 million dollars’ worth of gold has been imported into th? United States, of which 124 millions came from Britain and 101 miTlibns from France.

Giving evidence at +hc Board of Trade inquiry at Sydney into flic cost of. living. a Tepre.smtalike of the Employers Fedoratio;-, stated that prices of drapery, Manchester goods, boots and groceries had fallen 15 to 20 per cent, during the past year.

A message from Quebec: states that Lord Byng was installed as Governor* General of Canada, amidst impressive ceremonies in the Legislative Chamber. Hugo crowds cheered him on landing. He was received by the Premier (Mr. Arthur Meighen) and the full Cabinet.

A London message states that tho Distillers’ Company has -acquired Calder and Company's seven distilleries, thus controlling the world's whisky trade. Tho Distillers’ Company paid three-quarters of a million sterling to Calder and Company. whoso capital was a quarter of a million.

Largo areas arc still flooded in the Western River country, in Now South Wales. It is estimated that 106,000 sheep nre marooned along tho Barwon. Some flocks have been fed for weeks by medium' of aeroplanes. Bnurke and other townships continue io be partially isolated. x

Earl Haig has handed' over to the British Museum personal war notes and document* of the most immense national and hl-torie interest. He has instructed that they not to 'bo opened until 1940. Ear] Haig lias consistently declined io write a. war book, despite flattering o tiers.

A Vicuna message states that the Taxation Commissioners levied 400 million kronen ns income tax upon a string of Hungarian horses entered for the Austrian race meetings, and planned to seize the rai“*liorse.s ns security. Tho owners hoard' of tho plan just in time to rush the animals in motor-lorries over the Hungarian border nt nirht-timc. The Commissioners pursued them in motorcars, but ths horses the border first.