GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 June 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright. ' The estate of Hie late Charles Garvice, the novelist, is assessed at. £71,049. The Daily Mail has opened a Louth fund, heading the list with Ji 1000. The New South Wales State Cabinet has decided to reinstate the railwayman dismissed on account of the 1917 strike. The annual war pensions liability of Australia is now £6,153,435. At Robart a movement is afoot to form one big union of all State Government employees. The United States Senate, by 43 votes to 34, rejected a motion to delay action in regard to the Armenian mandate until the peace agreement with the Central Powers is readied. "The postal revenue of Australia for the past eleven months amounted to £8,353,947, an increase, of £1f>8,2.5:> compared with the previous sinilar period. The General Steamships' Corporation of San Francisco has arranged a cargo service between San Francisco, Honolulu, and Australia, commencing on the ICtli inst. The Sydney wharf laborers are demanding the release of the I.W.W. prisoners within a month, failing which a stop-work meeting will be held to consider what action should he taken. Irish women sympathisers created a scene in the United States Senate gallories, hecklers demanding the expulsion of the English from Ireland. Ushers removed a dozen women, excitedly struggling and shouting. The proceedings were suspended until the ejections were Completed. The conference at» Portsmouth on international law has closed. The conference appointed a committee to report on the best methods by which international co-operation for common economic, social, and legal objects can be extended under the League of Nations. The Sydney seamen's executive council has issued a call to all maritime unions to attend a, world's international maritime congress. It is anticipated far-reaching results for seamen will be achieved. So far the place of meeting has not been decided on. Cairo reports that Seaghlul's decision to send three colleagues to London to confer.with the Government before the Lord Milncr mission reports is regarded as likely to effect some settlement of the national question. Extremists oppose the decision, but the majority of the Egyptians, who are sick of fruitless agitations and anxious for relaxation of military precautions, welcome compromise. The Melbourne Court, in the disputed election returns on the appeal by Mr McGrath, declared the election for the Ballarat seat at the last Federal elections void, the Court stating that the evidence revealed almost incredible carelessness on the part of the local officers. r i'h>> case arose out of the defeat of Mr. McGrath, the retiring Labor member, by Mr. Kerby (Nationalist) by one vote. The Ukrainian Diplomatic Mission has written to Mr. Lloyd George protesting agaihst Kras3in'is reported intention to pay gold for proposed purchases on behalf of the Soviet Government of Russia, on the ground that a share of the gold in the Russian State Bank belongs to the Ukraine, which is also par- ] tially liable for the Roumanian gold re- f erve which the Soviets captured in the i Kremlin. The Mission asks for the , transmission of the protest to the Su- , preme Economic Council.