GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 2, 27 September 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright Owing to the outbreak of plague. Lord Northcliffe has cancelled his proposed visit to Queensland At tho Roehampton autumn tennis tournament F. Al. B. Fisher was the winner of the open singles, and with pnrtrier-* won tho men's and the mixed doubles.

A record audience which, overflowed the Albert Hall, London, welcomed the great singer Tetrazzini, who was wildly encored. She sang nine times. ’ Huge pyramids of flowers filled the stage. When Tetrazzini left, wearing a wreath of laurels, presented to "the queen of song," a thousand excited admirers obstructed her car.

Mr. W. A. Windeyer proposes to call a meeting of influential Australians _ in London to protest against the cessation of exhumations of war graves, find to urge that the work be continued unt'l iho sectors where dead are known to be predominantly, . Australian have been cleared up. Several of these areas, notably Pozieres and Passchendaelo, still require systematic search. y In the Western Australian Legislative Council, the Minister of Education introduced the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, which permits State niemhers to stand for Federal election without resigning their'seats. The Minister declares thatthe Earring by the Federal Parliament of State members could be. made legally effective only by an alteration in tho Federal Constitution. This Bill was' an assertion of State rights.