GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 276, 1 May 1915, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

ASSOCIATED SMELTERS' PROPRIETARY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, April 30. A meeting of the North, South and the . proprietary of the Broken Hill mines agreed to forming an associated smelters' proprietary, and to acquite the Port Pirie smelting works and Bellamui coke .works, and all contracts concerned in ;:'•(! smelting treatment of silver, lead ores and other metals. The nominal capital is £750,000, the proprietary company receiving £450,000 for the Port I'irie works. The contracting companies' agreement provides that the whole output of lead concentrates purchased by Broken Hill will go to the smelting company for fifty years. ENGLISH BY-ELECTION. London, April 29. Mr. Galbraith (Labor) has been returned unopposed for the Mid-Durham i seat, in place of the late Mr. Wilson, a Liberal-Laborite. KING CHARLES I. BEATIFIED. London, April 29. The Lower House of Convocation of the Canterbury Province passed a resolution to add King Oharles I. to the calendar of Saints.

AUSTRALASIAN EXHIBITORS AT ROYAL ACADEMY. London, April 29. There are twenty-three Australian and four New Zealand exhibitors at the Royal Academy, making a record colonial year. RESTRICTIONS ON CABLE CODES. London, April 29. In the House of Commons, Mr. Joynson Hicks urged the Government to allow moro codes, especially with the dominions and India, as the present limitations were crippling trades. The Government replied that it was impossiblo at present to consider increasing the number of code 9, the protection of the realm being of paramount consideration. DEPRESSION IN COAL TRADE. Sydney, April 30. As the result of the depression in the coal trade, hundreds are idle at Newcastle. LABOR CONFERENCE. Melboun-.e, April 30. A great Catholic demonstration, Archbishop Carr presiding, resolved strongly to protest against the Labor Conference's action, in excluding conscientious Catholics from the Labor Council. (The Labor Conference passed a resolution that no one could become a member of the Labor Party who was at the same time a member of any other organisation which selected or lent support to candidates for public positions.) SCARCITY OF FODDER. Sydney, April 30. Mr. Hall states that, owing to the scarcity of supplies, all exports of fodder must bo stopped. If the warning is disregarded, he threatens to seize the stocks.