MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3647, 7 December 1920, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

SYDNEY, Dec. 5. For the first time in the history of yachting in Australia, the GovernorGeneral piloted his yacht, the Yuelba, over a twenty-mile course in the harbour. He finished last. LONDON, Dec. 5. Timoleague Castle, and an adjoining residence, belonging to Robert Travers, was burned? The damage is estimated at £25,000. A very high authority denies the rumour of the Prince of Wales’ engagement to Princess Margaret of Denmark. I The American section of the cotton trade, comprising three-fourths of the industry, decided to reduce hours by one-half.

The Port of London Authority, together with up-town warehouse keepers, has arraanged for the aggregate storage in London for about a million bales of wool, which compares with about the average "storage of about 350,000 bales before the war. It is hoped that this will prove ample storage for the trade, but, if required, the authority is also prepared to provide a store which will be in the open, properly dunnaged and protected with tarpaulins to the satisfaction of the underwriters’ surveyor. The extra premium against risk of rain damage will be half a crown per cent, per month, to be declared if open storage is used. The Australian Press learns that this arrangement should go far towards meeting the difficulty arising from the new clause in the Australian bill of lading by which shipowners compel merchants to take immediate delivery of goods from ship’s side whether storage is available or not.

Among growing indications that the Sinn Fein is weary of the conflict is a resolution by the Galway County Council, which is strongly Republican, expressing sorrow and regret at the shootings, burnings, reprisals and counter-reprisals, and requesting the requesting the Sinn Fein to appoint three delegates to negotiate a truce and honourable peace. The Freeman’s Journal has also changed its tone. It declares that the solid weight of Irish opinion favo'urs peace with the Government, and insists that the murder campaign must cease before the beginning of negotiations.

Mr Asquith was the chief speaker at the Albert Hall, where a demonstration was held denouncing reprisals. He was repeatedly interrupted by female extremists, who declared that his Government murdered the Sinn Feiners who were courtmartialled and shot for participating in the 1916 rebellion.

M. Leygues intimated that while refusing official dealing's witih the Russian Soviet, the Government of France will allow its citizens to trade with Russians on their own responsibility. In the event of the Anglo-Eussian agreement becoming operative, there are indications that the Italian draft will follow the main lines of the British proposals.

Mr Churchill, in an article in the Sunday Express, replying to Mr H. G. Wells’ impressions of Russia, especially his statement that the blockade and not Communism had starved Russia, says she is one of the great granaries of the world, and one might as well blockade Newcastle against the imports of coal as Russia against the import of wheat. The only remedy for Russia’s ills is the abandonment of Communism. Mr Churchill asks: Can cancer repent o rdisease transform itself into health? It would be a miracle, but the road is still open. Let the Bbsheviks show mercy, and they will obtain peace. Let them liberate the energies of the people and they will obtain food. Let them observe foith in internal and external relations, and commerce will revive.