GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

- V **■«».=■»«« As«i.^-Copnlxlit. 7h* VoEOk Diet has broken off diplomatic rebtictts with Caeeho-Slovakia. Subscriptions to the New South Wales State loan total £1,160,000. The South Australian harvest totalled bushels. Sir Thomas Mackenzie' and Mr. AnBrew Fisher lave gone to Paris to sign {the Hungarian Treaty. ' The fax OH betting in France yielded Mtyone million francs. The Governmot propose to increase the tax from {tea to eleven per cent. The Bungarian Government has decreed the suppression of Masonic institutions on the ground of their having rejwhrtionary aims. Mr. Justice Eve gave judgment in London for plaintiffs in the action brought by Lord Michelham's executors asking for a declaration tJiat a document dated July 3, 1919, giving a present to iLady Michelham of an annual income of {£Bo,ooo, was invalid. The Judge acceptted tMe doctor's evidence! that Lord Michejhain was not in a condition to understand business. Hw Broken Hill strike round tabla fcuurereuee aided without reaching a settlement, the parties disagreeing on the question of hours. A meeting of Broken ffill strikers adopted a resolution de■nanding an increase under the Work- ««•*'■ Compensation Act to the full canning capacity for victims of the iadus*y. _ Under pressure from his political opponents, H. Venfeelos (Premier of Qreeee) told the Chamber that if the agitation for the return of «x-King Con•rtntme was pressed far he would raise tte question of the maintenance of Roy■By itself. Tie declaration is generally rngptihr The Government has restored ■auttal law owing to nottticai disturb-