GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3609, 22 October 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

SHIPS FOR WHEAT. LONDON, Oct. 20. The Australian Wheat Committee is making fairly satisfactory progress in securing tonnage for wheat. They ;have fixed a number of foreign and British steamers at 150/, and sailers at 120/. It is reported on the Baltic Exchange that the quantity chartered is 20,000 tons of Japanese steamers and about 50.000 tons British, all for January, February and March loading.

THE FRENCH BUDGET. A SPLENDID OUTLOOK. Received 9 a.m. PARIS, Oct. 21. In tlie Chamber of Deputies the Minister of Finance presented an optimistic financial statement. He said: “'Thanks to the untiring devotion 01 the people, the situation in the liberated regions is singularly good Sev-enty-seven per cent, of the destroyed factories have resumed work, eleven and a half million hectares of land have been reclaimed, and fifty-seven per Cent, sown in corn The harvest in ten of the devastated Departments would be ten million quintals. Similar progress was. being made in rehabilitating the mines and railways. Reclamation is being conducted with the greatest difficulty, most of the population living in cellars and shanties. The Budget shows that the commercial deficit has been reduced from sixteen milliards to ten milliards. Exports had doubl'ed and imports rnereased threefold. The short term American loans had been repaid. New taxation was all covered in the 1921 Budet, and allowing for 16£ milliards for reconstruction and pensions, repayable by, Germany, the whole situa* tion indicated that anxiety regarding France’s future was a thing of the past. f ■

BRITISH COLUMBIA LICENSING POLL.

STATE CONTROL CARRIED. Recevied 9 a.m. VANCOUVER, Oct. 21. The plebiscite yesterday resulted: For continuance of Prohibition: 46,000; for Government sale of liquor 75,600. There are a few small returns to come. Received 10.50 a.m. OTTAWA, Oct. 21. British . Columbia reversed the Prohibition vote of four years ago fcy a majority of twenty-four thousand In a total poll of two hundred thousand. It is claimed that the vote snows that the people are sick of a system whereby liquor could be obtained through physicians' prescriptions for I alleged complaints, which often did not exist. British Columbia and Quebec are now the only wet provinces In Canada.

FRENCH FLAGS OF 1870. BURNED BY GERMAN STUDENTS. Received 9 ayn. PARIS, Oct. 21. | The Reparations Committee while® proceeded to Berlin to secure the flags captured in 1870 learned that Berlin students made a bonfire or them ?h 1919 at the statue of Frederick the Great. CANADIAN WHEAT CONTROL. Received 9.25 a.m, OTTAWA, Oct. 21. Consternation prevails among Winnipeg grain growers as the result of [the Government decision not to reestablish the Wheat Control Boars. Which operated during the the war. Grain is not being moved owing to elevators' in interior being choked, an-C there being no buyers. Grain growers insist that the Government can take over the crops and finance them until buyers want the stocks. American cotton market. AFFECTED BY RAILWAY TIMATUM. , Received 1.50 p.ni. NEW YORK, Oct. 21. The cotton market reacted to "the influence of the English railwaymen«s strike ultimatum, and prices droppes 30 points to-day. SHIPPING. Received 1.25 p.m VANCOUVER, Oct. 25 Sailed: At midnight on Wednesday. Tahiti for Auckland.

PROHIBITION CONDEMNED. Received 9.25 a.m. LONDON. Oct 21. The Morning Post's Washington correspondent reports that Maurice Low, in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, states that after exhaustive investigations he has concluded that prohibition the large cities, especially in New York, is a farce. This is partly admitted by the Prohibition authorities. The majority of New Yorkers are against Prohibition, ana are resisting the law which the minority imposed on the majority. They see no virtue in compulsory abstinence, and do not regard evasions of the law as a crime; other factors being vena*ity of the men appointed to enforce the law, and the fact that illicit traffic is most profitable. The regulations permitting chemists to prescribe alcohol are abused and an extensive traffic exists in forged permits. Mr Low, describes the “operations of the New York whiskey ring as being efficiently organised, bringing buyers and sellers together, and large deals in whiskey ranging from ’32/ to ’BO/ per quart are easily arranged. Ingenious ruses are adopted and the authoities claim that they are powerless to stop illicit dealing. _ ,i» *. .... SYLVIA PANKHURST. LONDON, Oct. 21.

Sylvia Pankhurst was admitted to bail, in a surety of £IOOO. According to the evidence, an article in the Workers' Dreadnought called on the masses to revolt or destroy Parliament which -should he turned into a storehouse for manure.

DUTCH CHEESE. LONDON, Oct. 20. The Dutch Government has prohibited the manufacture of cheese from November Ist except where surplus milk is not required for distribution.