GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

SPANISH PARLIAMENT. SOIME ROOM FOR POLITICIANS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) MADRID, July 20. It is interpreted as an olive branch that General Primo De Rivera, Director of Spain, proposes to enlarge the Consultative Assembly to forty seats, which the ex-Presidents of the Congress and the Senate and other prominent persons belonging to the old political parties will 'be invited to occupy.

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LONDON, July 20. “Owing to the high prices that are demanded by the British firms, the Admiralty has been compelled to place many contracts for goods abroad,” declared the Rt. Hon. Ammon, Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, in a speech at London. Mr Ammon said that the difference on one contract, which has gone to the United States, was 120 per centum. It would, lie pointed out, be •preposterous to spend public' money to that.extent in order to keep the contracts "iff Britain. 1 He expressed ,tho opinion that the price disparity is not due to underpaid labour, but to-ilie British manufacturers’ lack of enterprise..

f, \ • COTTON LOCKOUT. . LONDON, July 22. The Daily Herald says: Less than a week remains ibefore the lockout notices of the employers in connection with the Lancashire cotton industry will expire. A stoppage seems to be inevitable. Any pressure that is brought upon the employers to pacific ends will undoubtedly receive full public support. The wool employers know that they cannot succeed in their attack on wages, except by imposing a long period of suffering upon the operatives—a process which the Government and the public cannot idly watch. -It; would be as. jvyelL if the employers realised that now, without awaiting that event in the wool and the textile .industry. They policy in both industries is hopelessly out of date. i\ . -. :7 V ■■ x • .

RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN. AGAINST MALTA GOVERNMENT. (Received this day at’ 9.25 a.m.) MALTA, July 22. A number of parish priests are carrying on a violent campaign against the Government declaring in their sermons -that the Government is, clinging to power solely for the purpose of harming religion. , They are denouncing the Government and its supporters, as -freemasons, who [ with protestants are conviving against religion and intriguing against hope. STORM DAMAGE. \ . LONDON, July 22. The total of the casualties due to ■. the. storm and the'tidal waves,: which; swept the east and south coasts ol : England, from Yarmouth to Worthing is two drowned and two killed by lightning. The weather experts are puzzled as to the cause of the tidal wave, but the consensus of opinion is that it if due to sudden high winds. YEAR’S WOOL CLIP. LONDON, July 22. Another interesting feature of the wool clip is that despite the fact that the number of sheep to-day in Australia is slightly below that of 1891. the increase in the production of wool over that year exceeds three hundred and nine million pounds weight, which is equal to 48 per cent. CHICAGO WHEAT MARKET. NEW YORK, July 22. . A message.from Chicago states on a -rush to buy hack into the wheat market, futures recovered all losses suffered in the last week’s final trading bull. Confidence was restored by the continued dry weather in Canada and the unfavourable crop reports from Australia and Argentine, and strong action in Liverpool. Wheat closed: s.July 141, September 1451, December 152 J.