GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 May 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telefrraph.—Press Assn.—''opyr-.iht > Lord Jellicoe will be the guest at the annual dinner of the Royal Colonial Institute in London. An influential committee of London business men and Agents-General are arranging to tender Sir Thomas Mackenzie a farewell banquet. Probably Lord Milner (Secretary for the Colonies) will preside.

During a bull fight at Talavera the bull disembowled .loselite, the greatest bull-fighter of Spain. The tragedy caused a national sensation as .foselite is a popular hero. He entered the ring in ■lf) 12, and has since killed 1430 bulls and earned £40,000 annually.

Colonel Fufiiell, only son of Bishop Fufnell, of Brisbane, was attacked by a native and killed while travelling in a train from Calcutta to Lucknow. No arrest has been made.

The Port of Manchester is agitating that the wool sales lie hold.there alternately with Liverpool. Manchester bankers will aeord every facility as regards wool consigned to Manchester.

The purchasers of Devonshire House (London) intend to demolish the building and erect a cinema, restaurant, and tlancing hall, using the famous staircase as an approach to the latter.

Constantinople reports that six French battalions have been despatched to llatoum to strengthen the garrison to meet, the inevitable trouble caused by the submission of Georgia to Russia.

A special race train and an ordinary train collided at Waterloo (Sydney) owing to a break failing to act. Seventeen passengers were injured, mostly slightly.

Baylies, a Queensland sculler, who was chosen ns an Australian Olympic representative, has notified the committee he is unable to make the trip.

An authoritative source declares that the new Anglo-Japanese Alliance prevents a possibility of war between Britain and the United States in the event of American and Japanese trouble.

A Cairo message says the GovernorGeneral reports that Colonel Danvell's force has concluded a successful punitive expedition against the tribes responsible for the deaths of Majors Stigand and White in December last. The enemy's main force was surprised, and the principal chief, with a considerable force, surrendered unconditionally.

A Government Bill introduced in the French Chamber of Deputies proposed the administrative unification of all French railways. It is planned that the control shall be exercised by ' a superdirectorate of the Government, the workers and the owners combined, with common dividends and a sinking fund to make up common losses, and uniform rates on the basis of the profit and loss en all lines.

Mr. Theodore, Premier of Queensland, referring to his visit to America, said labor conditions were more disturbed. The tendency towards higher wages and shorter hours was particularly marked. The country was suffering owing to reactionary Labor leaders and the absence of a satisfactory method of adjudicating upon disputes, regulating conditions, and controlling collective bargaining.

The British Labor Gazette stated that retail prices including food, clothing, Fuel, light, and rent, on May 1 were about 141 per cent, above the figures ruling in July, 1014. The Food Controller's statistics relating to food show fin increase, of 14' ii per cent. He states that the United Kingdom food prices have risen less than those of France, Italy, and Sweden, and are not much in excess of the United States and adds that the present level is -undoubtedly a matter for serious concern. The Food Controller concludes that prices in the coining summer will reach a very high level owing to the cost of imported food, the partial removal of Die bread subsidy and the increased prices of sugar ana potatoes.

In the House of Commons, Mr. U-xmr Law stated that in October, lfilfl, when it was feared the Russian Government would attack the Russian border States. Poland asked for British assistance and military equipment. Owing to our commitments elsewhere the Government was unable to give financial assistance, but offered to supply a quantity of surplus stores if Poland undertook to bear the cost, of moving mid all transport, arrangements. The offer was accepted and the Polish Government was now shipping part of the stores, otherwise no assistance had been given to Poland.