GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 66, 10 December 1921, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

The Straits Settlement loan of £5,155,600, at 6 per cent., repayable in 1936-51, has been over-subscribed.

The Tasmanian Legislative Council, on. the voices, rejected the Bill to abolish the office of State Governor.

Six men have been remanded on charges of impersonation in connection with the Sydney municipal elections.

Aiderman McElhone, the only nomination for the position of Lord Mayor of Sydney, was elected after a lively exchange of compliments between members of the opposing parties.

The motion, by Dr. Earle Page, Leader of the Country Party in the Federal. House of Representatives, in favour of reducing members’ salaries from £l6OO to £BO9 was negatived by 40 votes to 21.

Submarine S4B sank off Bridgeport, Connecticut. She was submerged for twelve hours before the crew succeeded 1 in elevating one end and escaping through the torpedo tubes.

German paper factories are closing down owing of coal. The newspapers have been greatly reduced in size, and Berlin will probably be without newspapers in a few days.

The Clerkenwell (England) County Court has decided that backers claiming the amounts of their losses by cheque must give the bookmakers particulars of tho horses backed, dates of bets and the amount invested in each case.

The Finnish delegation appointed to settle the economic questions between Finland and Russia has been arrested at ths frontier and removed to a quarantine station. Efforts made through the Soviet to obtain their release failed.

The Paris newspaper ('Le Journal” published a message stating that the commander of the U-boat which, sunk the Lusitania escaped to Paraguay, where he became naturalised. He obtained command of a Paraguayan warship, but the crew, discontented with his iron discipline, mutinied and threw him overboard.

The Federal House of Representatives read a third time the Bill endorsing the agreement under which the Commonwealth repays the Imperial Government; the balance of the £92,000,000 advanced, for war purposes. The repayments are to extend over a period of 36 years, with, interest at six per cent.

The Medical School at the University of Melbourne is seriously overcrowded, and classes in every subject are divided, necessitating lectures by different lecturers. The total students at the University number 3600, of whom 983 are for medicine. The total of medical students throughout Australia is 49,800, or one to every hundred of the population.

The British Empire Exhibition will, give awards for meritorious exhibits from the Empire, including agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, food products, beverages,’minerals, and timber; also for the manufacture of machinery and implements.

In the Commonwealth House, of TteprsBentativcs the Bill to amend the Arbitration Acts was definitely abandoned and another Bill was substituted. The object is to relieve the congestion of business in the Federal Court.

. The English Salvage Association reports' that it fears, as the result of the fire in the copra cargo, that the Boorara’s meat will be all condemned, h«t it hopes to save a good proportion of the butter and some of the rabbits. It has been decided to take all the refrigerated cargo to London.

The Prince of Wales is still shooting and hunting his way across Rajputana. He arrived at Bharatpur, where there is the finest duck shooting in India. His virit is private, though there is much picturesque and brilliant ceremonial, similar to his visits to other Native States.—Reuter.

The French Prefecture 6f Police hast notified theatres, music halls, and cabarets that every song referring to England and Mr. Lloyd George must be submitted for police censorship. This is a result of attacks in which Mr. Lloyd George'was represented as "Little. Tick and other oddities.