GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1920, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

*OBXn..LI*N & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION AUSTRALIAN ITEMS. x SYDNEY, Aug. 23. The Commonwealth Statistician reports that it now requires 3os 4d in the six capital cities to buy what could be bought for 20s in 1911. _ j Parer and Mclntosh were given a civic reception at the Town Hall. A reward fund has been opened for the aviators. Piastre who won the Melbourne Cup in 1912, has been sold by the Defence Department to Dalgety, Ltd., for £2IOO. BRISBANE, Aug. 23. j The Governor-General has received a 1 . farewell message from the Prince stating he left Sydney “with a lump in his 1 , throat,” and conveying warmest thanks 1 j to Ministers. JAPANESE FREIGHTS. TOKIO, Aug. 20. Representatives of all the shipping lines operating from Japanese ports, who have been holding a conference at ■ Yokohama, have decided on a standard freight rate for the Pacific Ocean traffic, ! which shall be 20 per cent higher than at present. , j GERMAN COMMUNISTS. | AMSTERDAM, August 21. The Communist movement is again causing concern in Rhenisli-Westphalian area.. A Soviet republic has been proclaimed at Velbert, near Barmen, where the town hall was seized. The bank officials' were compelled to give up large sums of money. The workmen are being asked to join the rebellion at Essen. (