GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 23, 21 October 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright ;

Tho Moplalis have notified that any j residents who assist the military can | expect slaughter, according to a message: from Delhi.

Tho Institute of British Architects] gives prominence to Hie 41000 competi-, tion for the Auckland Memorial Museum in honour of the heroes of the GreatWar.

A Sydney message states that Mr. J. J. M'Girr proposes to remedy the arbitra-; tion procedure as a result of a statement to the effect that it cost the unions--4190,000 during the year to fight cases, in the Arbitration Court.

It is reported from Melbourne that owing to tho dull inter-State shipping trade the steamer Canberra will be laid up. , The outlook seemed bright recently, but the plague in Brisbane has frustrated hopes for several months.

Mr. Fisk, managing director of Australasian Wireless, has returned to Sydney from .England. He explained that the company is fully prepared for a wireless service between England and Australia, and to equip the capital cities in each State.

A representative Indian, who has just returned to Delhi from Mesopotamia, states that tho Arabs have begun to heartily appreciate the good! work and even-handed justice of the British regime, but still there is some opposition to Emir Feisul at Mosul.

When the executors opened the will of Mademoiselle Louise Gallien they disco vered that her entire fortune of eight million francs had been given to the poor children of Paris. Her father previously gave ten millions francs to the poor. The woman was buried on Tuesday like a pauper.

Sidney Bearne, the stoker who saved tthe ensign of H.M.S. Hogue, in. the early days of the war, by gripping the flag with his teeth and swimming for two hours, until he was rescued, has been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for stealing Treasury notes at the Weymouth post office, where he was employed as a cleaner.

It is officially stated that the prospects for the South Australian harvest are generally favourable for a yield well above the average. With an extra area or 225,000 acres under crop and fair weather for the remainder of the season, a yield approximating last year’s 34,237,-. 000 bushels is reasonably to be expected.

•A Paris message states that Gaston Gournay, who twice deserted in face of the enemy, and then sold important plans to the enemy, was twice sentenced, to death for those crimes, and twice re-' prieved. During the armistice he again communicated with the enemy, and has been tried by court-martial and transported for life to the penal settlement nt Guiana.

According to advices received at Wash-, ington from Tokio. Japan has sent China a new Note designed to clarify points of the original Shantung offer] which China considered vague. No new concessions are offered. The proposal that America should mediate between Japan and China is meeting with opposition from Conservatives, nnd ie now considered improbable.