GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 49, 21 November 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright McNamara and Mcßeath, of Australia, won the 24 hours' bicycle race at Madison Square Gardens, New York.

A London message states that the Duke of Atholl is to succeed Viscount Sandhurst as Lord Chamberlain of the Household.

A Netherland company has placed an order valued at a million sterling for two liners with a Continental firm, whoso tender was 20 per cent, below the lowest quotation of Tees and Hartlepool firms.

Sir John Leigh has purchased the "Pall Mall Gazette and Globe” from the Hon. A. M. Weir, son ofiLord InveTforth. Sir John Leigh intends to stand as Unionist candidate for Clapham at the next election.

The late Joseph Jonas, who was deprived of his knighthood in 1918 for conspiring with another to contravene the provisions of the Official Secrets Act, and whose death was announced' in August, left estate valued at .£184,448.

A girl praying nt the shrine of the Virgin in Toulon Cathedral was killed by the fall of a marble statue of an angel which was placed in the Cathedral in 1655 bv tho Consuls of Tbnlon. as an offering to stave off the inroads of cholera, which was ravaging Marseilles.

Mr. Marks, secretary of the Australasian Amateur Athletic Union, is in receipt of a communication from Paris, notifying that the 1924 Olympic Games will be held, with three intervals—whiter sport in January, nt _ Chamonix ; Rugby and Sai'eer. in Anvil; and all other sports in July, at Paris.

There has been a tragic ending Io *xn overseas romance which started I’st spring, according to a London message. A wealthy Canadian wrote to England seeking a wife, and a young Kentish laity was selected. She was to have soiled in May, but for superstitious reasons would not marry that month. The wedding was further postponed in consequence of the illness of the Canadian, who is now deaiT, following on an operatto'n.

Th? son of a Parisian janitor, desiring to test his powers as an advocate before a Judge, managed to arrange with a prisoner to allow him to net for the letter's defence nt the Versailles Assizes. Tho trial took place in the next court to that in wln'ch Lnndru was being fried. During Ihe speech of ihc bogus lawyer the Judge suddenly asked if counsel had ever Practised law. The supposed lawyer faltered and confessed. Gendarmes removed him, nnd he will he prosecuted for contempt of Court. The client was acquitted.