GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3565, 30 August 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTRALIAN BUTTER PURCHASE. LONDON, Aug. 27. The British Government has raised I the purchase price of the Australian butter surplus to 274/ per cwt. OLYMPIC GAMES. ANTWERP, Aug. 27. In the ladies 300-metre swimming race Miss Violet Walron (Auckland) qualified in the final. Beauropaire and Kirkland (Aus.) qualified in the semi-final of the 400metre swim. They were unable to attain Australia form owing to the coldness of the water. . , In the tennis doubles final Turnbull and Woosam (England) beat Kumagoe and Kaisho (Japan). In the mixed doubles Mdlle. Lenglen and Max Decugis (France) : beat Miss McKane and Woosnam (England). LONDON, Aug. 27. The Australian athletes are depressed at their failure to strike form, causing them to be completely outclassed in the track events. A message from Antwerp states that Beauropaire would have won his heat in the 400-metre if Kaehle (America) had not collided 'with him. Beaurepaire received a nasty knock in the face.

SOCCER BOOM. Received 8.30 .a.m. LONDON, Aug. 29. The football boom is expected to exceed that of last season. The opening Soccer matches yesterday were largely attended throughout the country, Sixty-thousand watched the Newcastle match. THE COAL CRISIS. STRIKE BALLOT. LONDON, Aug. 28. The ballot in South Wales resulted 143,471 in favour of a strike and 42,013 against. Mr Horne will meet the leaders of the Triple Alliance on Tuesday. Although the miners’ ballot will give more than the requisite two-thirds majority for a strike, there is an unexpectedly substantial vote against a strike, particularly in Yorkshire, Nottingham and Northumberland. This* fact is influencing the leaders, who are anxious to find a way out, be-, cause other unions ate generally opposed to a coal strike, as it will cause widespread unemployment. eßceived 8.30 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 29. It is estimated that over one hundred thousand pit boys voted in the miners’ strike ballot* It is’ generally believed that the coal strike will not come off, but that mediation will result in a resumption of work. Negotiations are in progress between the Government and the miners’ leaders, and a coinpromise may he arranged on the basis of increased wages for an increased output of coal. Though' the mines are employing one hundred thousand more workers than in pre-war days, the annual output Is fifty-eight million tons less, and high wages, combined with a reduced output, are making coal dear. It is reported that the Blyth miners leaders are reconsidering a proposal to call off the projected strike and restrict week’s work to four days until accumulated stocks in the country have been exhausted. ZAMORA’S BANDITS. Received 11.30 a.m. MEXICO CITY, Aug. 29. The War Office has announced that the Government troops defeated Zamora and Ms bandit force. The latter is retreating to the northern part of Jalisco. The fate of the captive Britisher and Americans is not yet determined. BRITAIN AND BULGARIA. • TRADE RELATIONS RESUMED. Received 8.40 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 29. Bulgaria has re-opened her Legation in London. Her representative is M. Manjaroff, son of the former Bulgarian Minister to Britain# He states that Bulgaria is seeking, credit in exchange for cereals, wherewith her barns are bursting. Bulgaria urgently needed manufactured articles, which would he ordered from Britain out of the credit guarantee.

GASOLENE PRODUCTION. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. The Bureau of Mines has reported that gosolene production int he first six months- of 1920 was thirteen per cent, greater than during the same period of 1919; but the consumption was increased 32 per cent, in Hie same time. COUNTY CRICKEfT. eßcnived 9.20 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 29. There was an unprecedented attendance at Lords, the crowds occuping ten yards of one side of the playing area. Middlesex started badly on a good wicket. Surrey’s bowling and fielding being first-class. With three down for thirty-five, Warner went in and stonewalled for the first two hours. He batted faultlessly for five hours for 70 (not out). Middlesex made a good uphill fight, losing eight for 253. Warner, with Stevens (an Oxford freshman) added 101 for the seventh wicket. .

Yorkshire playing against Hampshire, lost one wicket for 400 —Holmes (not out) 230.

Worcestershire only scored 124 against Lancashire, who lost three wickets for 114.

Troughton, of Kent, will captain the amateur team for New Zealand. Tennyson and A. Carr have joined, and Burton, Yorkshire, has been invited to join. Received 9.1 b a.m. f LONDON, Aug. 29. Por the first time for many years at Lords, the gates were closed and boards displayed outside notifying the crowd that the grounds were full.