GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 56, 30 November 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright, Tho Felton bequest (Victoria) Ims purchased the full-length portrait of “An Officer” by Gainsborough.

A number of trains to the north of Adelaide recently were held up owing to a plague of grasshoppers. Further delays are now duo to ants on th© rails.

London has been densely fog-bound for four days, the worst experience for years. Traffic is greatly impeded, and there have been some fatalities in the. streets.

Tho announcement was made at the Freemasons’ assemblage in Sydney that .£lOO,OOO had been donated anonymously towards the establishment of a. Masonic College, on the condition that the donoi s name is not to bo mentioned.

Dr Earl Page (leader of the Federal Country Party) has circulated P>’°P^ ed amendments to the Convention Bill. Opposing that the convention consist of seventy-two members; each State to be divided into four divisions with three members each.

Tho “Bcrlinske Tidendo” states that the rebels in Ukraine number a quarter of a million. Petlura expects soon to have 400,006 at his disposal. After the capture of Fotomir 3000 Bolsheviks were hanged, and.a similar number were shot down in the street fighting.-

Miners i.n the Prince of Wales co.hery at Abercarn broke through an old working and found the remains of many of the 263 victims of the explosion which occurred in September. 1878. The explosion was so terrific, that few of the bodies were recovered at the time.

Tho Federal Cabinet has approved of the formation of a fruit pool. Dli. Hughes explained that advances would bo made on the basis of so much per pound, the total amount to he intjpLed to be <£75,600. An important, condition laid down was that there is to lie only one selling agency in London, to avoid undercutting.

The known casualties at the . Rialto Theatre, New Haven, fire are three dead and twenty seriously injured, many ot whom are expected to die. 'lhose witn lesser injuries are uncountable, as those who were able to walk disappeared to their respective homes, but hundreds were trampled upon and singed.