GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1920, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By Tcleuraph.—l'reia Asau.—Copyright. The six gift destroyers have arrived at Sydney. I''ive hundred Bedouins were engaged in the fighting at Beisan on the 22nd. Their casualties are estimated at 120. British reinforcements have been sent. Austrian goods valued at £IOO,OOO consisting of furniture, pianos, jewellery, fancy goods, clothing, machinery and tools have arrived in I-ondon for pale. Several recent raids by Arabs in Palestine necessitated punitive measures. Cavalry charges at Senakh drove off a Jarge force of Arabs and recovered a quantity of loot. As the result of the efforts of the League of Agricultural Associations there has been a great increase in the cultivation of land throughout Russia. The average cultivated in Saratoff this year will reach the 1915 level. The Victorian State Government has increased railway fares and freights 12% per cent. The increase is estimated to produce an additional million revenue annually. Mr. Hughes promised a deputation at Melbourne of the Olympic Games Council that the Government would grant £IJWO towards the expenses of the team to the Olympic games. Referring to the agitation for a shorter working week Mr. Hughes states that the Federal Government had decided with a view to the necessity of increased production that it must be resisted at all costs. At the Inter-Church World Movement luncheon Dr. Atkinson announced that he had received a pledge of 2,000,000 dollars frota Mr. Rockefeller, jun. Twenty Russians who entered England without passports have been deported. Scotland Yard is systematically searching the East End of London and arresting alien undesirables, mostly Communists. At a meeting of the Cunard Company it was stated that the Aquitania was being converted for oil fuel. Two vessels had been recently launched, and 11 others were being constructed. All would be oil-burning. , It is officially announced in Paris that, with a view to improving the exchange, the importation of 159 articles is prohibited, including clothing, jewellery, motor cars, aeroplanes, and typewriters. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times i-avs that, according to advices received by the State Department, Japanese troops,- escorted by the warships Mikasa and Mishima, have been landed at Alexandrovski and have taken over the district. Tn ihe Tloipc of Commons; Mr. Chamberlain (Chiw>iri»llor of the Exchequer), announced tiiat in order Further to provide for a reduction in the floating debt new Government '"> per cent bonds with a currency of 5 to l"i yearn would be issued at par on May 3." Mr, Berriedale Keith, in a letter, points out that no method has yet been determined bv which Britain "and th<v Dominions are to conduct their business with the League of Nations. "He suggests that all should agree tti consult together before approaching the League in order to maintain the equality of status and eliminate or diminish divergence of views. London University is appealing for £20.000 to found a centre of advanced historical studies. Lord Rosebery and the Lord Mayor of London are supporting the appeal. They state that immense stores of material covering the history of Britain and the Dominions lie unused in the British Museum and Records Office. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times states that he learned that the Japanese negotiators wlpn are participating in the consortium to develop Chinese resources have eivon notice that, unless plans are perfected for the immediate construction of railroads, in Manchuria, Japan will undertake tbfc task single-banded. Pictures by Burgess, Bielly, -Cohen, Leist, Power. Longstaff, Long, Quinn, Strecton, Young, Van Rnalte, Misses Austin, Gibson, Hall, Joel and Norris, and sculptures by Miss Benson, Messrs. Parker and MacKennal have been accepted by the British Royal Academv. Most are on the line, but all are well hung. The average of the work is higher than usual,. Mr. Bowers exhibits two large- -battle pictures; one of which is hung on tlJe wall of' honor. Mr. Streeton exhibits a picture of the Thames peace pageant. '