GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1919, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

TONNAGE FOR NEW ZEALAND. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, June 6. From January to June New Zealand secured an average of <i4 per cent of the refrigerated tonnage allotted to Australasia. The percentages for May and June are 68 and. 69 respectively. Paris, May 27. L&ndru's brilliant lawyer, M. Morogiaferri, in an interview, points out that Landru was an inmate of an asylum and suggests that the defence will be that ha is insane.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

A BIG PURCHASE. .London, May 27. Sir Marcus Samuel has purchased Lord Berkeley's Mayfair estate of 20 acres. It iy believed the price is about Ave millions. The property includes Berkeley Square, Hill Street, Brunton Street, ahd other historical spots.

FATAL FRACAS IN DUBLIN, London, June 6. The authorities forbade a concert in Dublin in memory of Conolly, who was executed after the Easter rebellion. The police, in endeavoring to disperse the crowd, fired shots, and four constables ami two civiliana were wounded.

DISASTROUS EXPLOSION. Copenhagen, May 27. The explosion at the Ludwigshafen barracks, used by the French troops of occupation, resulted in 40 deaths and 100 injured.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.

LED BY EVIL INFLUENCES. London, May 27. The Home Secretary, in the House of Commons, gave details of the rioting in Victoria Street and Parliament Square. He said that discharged M>ldiers and sailors got under the control of some wild spirits, instead of their proper leaders. The police behaved with greatrestraint and only used force when compelled. Mere discharged men in Britain had. already taken to civil life than litt any other country. .

EFFECTIVE DEMOBILISATION. London, May 27. Mr Wardle, Under-Secretary for Labor, speaking to a deputation, said that 3,500,000 out of 4,800,000 had been demobilised and already absorbed into industries. The number drawing unemployment. pay was now: decreasing.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

LABOR DISAPPROVES PEACE TERMS. London, June 6. " A joint conference of the Parliamentary Labor Party and the National Executive passed a resolution that the peace terms violated the • principles for which the Allies waged war and tta armistice conditions, but five thousand millions indemnity was not essessive in view of the damage inflicted..

SHIPPING REBATES'. London, May-27, Replying to a question in the House of Commons regarding shipping conferences on rebates, Colonel Leslie Wilson said the rebate system was of long standing; he was not aware that any new method had been recently introduced. During the war the conference liners proved of the greatest value in bringing essential imports to this coun-try.—Aut'.-N.Z. Cable Aaan.