GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1920, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

I AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

A NOTABLE TRIAL,

(Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 28

5 After a. hearing lasting eleven days, constituting a record criminal trial at Old Bailey, Peter Christian Barrie an am. 1 ntour jockey, aged thirty was ’sentenced I to three years penal servitude in conI neetion with two cases of conspiracy to defraud with five others, by ringing in and rigging the betting market. Chief interest was in the substitution of a three year old horse for another, in a two year old race. Barrie and others won several thousands storling. Other defendants were sentenced to terms of nine to eighteen months. The polico state Barrie, a native of Edinburgh, went with Ids pa rente to Australia, where he joined the expeditionary force. He was discharged in England in 1916.

WHEAT PRICES. (Receved this day at 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 29,

Government is in a quandary over the world parity of wheat. If growers receive the full benefit of overseas prices the Home market will suffer and the price of bread increase in the country. Labour members fear an increase in the price. Mr Bagnall. (Nationalist) suggested that Government should emulate the action of the British Government and make up the difference between Home prices and the world’s parity, thus preventing an increase in the price of bread without injuring the farmers. Government is considering the position. The Government Statistician estimates the area under wheat for the present season shows an increase of half a million acres, compared with last season. The total area sown is 3,585,000 which is nearly two millions behind the record season of 1915-16.