CABLE BREVITIES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3463, 17 April 1920, Page 5

CABLE BREVITIES.

Received 10.10 am‘

LONDON, April 1

The Bristol and Dominions Pro--ducers’ Association is issuing sixty thousand pounds of shares-, making a. total capital of £IOO,OOO. Mr E. 0. Barton. of Brisbane, and Mr Hunter, Agent-General, were guests of the Decimal Association at a dinner. Mr Barton, in a. speech, said he regretted the conservatism of England towards modern ideas, and suggested A.us’r.ralia should embark on a metric rebellion. If Australia adopted decimal coinage and metric measures, it would have a powerful influence on Britain.

Now that Mr McCul'dy has been returned the question of the Govern‘mellt’s purchase of colonial butter would probably be settled Within ten days. The police and military were involved in a collision with civilians at Miltown Malboy, County Clare. Three civilians were killed and one wounded. There are no details. ’ In order to facilitate the building of dwellings, the London County Gouneil has prohibited the building of cinemas, theatres, clubs, and similar premises. The Australian Press ‘Association un~ derstands that anti—J'apanese feeling continues in Siberia. Japan has taken action to suppress the disorders, iiiqlliding the occupation of (several points on the Chinese eastern railways. They arrested several Russian workmen, Russians, Chinese, and Czechs .lointly protested, and the‘railwa.ymen Struck. Subsequently there was street fighting between the Russo-Czechs and Japanese, and resulted in several cesualties, including the Chinese, who intervened to quell the disturbance.

%PING. Received 10.20 am.- _ LONDON, April 15. Arrived: At Suez, Dzjachcnfels. Sailed: For Wellington, lonic.