GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 75, 21 December 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

The Victorian products in the year 1920-21 are valued at .£97,000,000, as compared with -£89,770,000 in 1919-20.

Lord Justice Duke, in the Probate Court, accepted a will written in shorthand, after an expert had supplied a full transcription.

The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent at Rio de Janeiro states that Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Quest, resumed her voyage on Saturday morning.

A storm, followed by a flood, caused great havoc in Denmark during the weekend. Many streets in Copenhagen were flooded several feet deep. Boats in the streets rescued people with difficulty.

The Chinese Cabinet's resignation is believed to he du> to the financial situation. China’s attitude at Washington regarding the Shantung questiqn, and various matters of internal policy, according to a message from Peking.

A violent storm was experienced at Glen Innes, New South Wales, causing extensive damage to gardens, orchards, and wheat crops. Roads and footpaths worn damaged by large jagged lumps of hail; and.26o points of rain were registered in twenty minutes.

The cabled report of the statement By Professor Irving Fisher that a German chemist, had succeeded in making synthetic gold out of baser metals does not cause any concern to the Commonwealth Treasury officials, according to a message, from Melbourne. They say that for hundreds of years efforts have been made to manufacture gold; and they do not fear that anything is likely to come of the recent German experiments.

The Paris correspondent of the “Daily Mail” states that French frontier Customs officers at La Chapelle and Sedan ambushed two smugglers’ motor-vans which, laden with tobacco, dashed through a wood at midnight. The drivers disregarded their challenges, and the Customs men fired with rifles and revolvers. Tho bullets glanced off the steel shields of the vans, but tho driver of the foremost was shot, and the lorry crashed into a. cottaeh. A isurvivor alighted, nnd attempted to get on board the second lorry, hut missed his hold, and a wheel crushed him to death. The captured goods consisted of three tons of costly tobacco.