GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 August 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telesraph —Press Am—Copyright. NEW SOUTH WaIiES PARLIAMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Asso Copyright. Sydney, August 18. ! The Assembly resumed the debate on ,the censure motion, and it is anticipated that it will last for several days.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Asgn. ; AVIATORS REACH BRISBANE. ; Brisbane, August 18. • Parer and Mcintosh have arrived.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. i REDUCTION OF LICENSES. Melbourne, .August 18. One hundred hotels have been closed i and the licenses cancelled since the introduction of the Licenses Reduction , Board in 1007, involving £681,000 for t compensation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn . RAILWAY AND TRAM FARES.

Sydney, August 18 Further rail and tram increases are | foreshadowed. The financial statement for the past year shows: Earnings, of railways £13,000,000, of tramways i, £2,800,000. Expenses: £9,500,000 and £2.400,000. Total credit: £3,900,000. ilnterest: £4.000,000. Deficit: £137,574. -Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

Sydney, August 18. Mr. Douglas, manager of the Newcastle Coal Company, giving evidence before a House of Representatives' select committee, said that, owing to shorter Jjour?, the output had diminished by one million tons annually. The annual report of the Amalgamated Wircfless of Australasia, Ltd., Btates that the Federal Government is considering the company's proposalJor a direct commercial wireless serviro between Australia and England. The report add* that the company daily receives messages direct from England. France, Germany, America, Japan and Hawaii, proving the possibilities of a. direct service to all part 9 of th# world.

The Excelsior says that Huerta has been officially advised that President Wilson is ready to recognise the Government if the safety of the lives and property of North Americans is guaranteed and indemnities are paid to foreigners injured in the revolution, and Cananza's confiscatory decrees abrogated. Mr. Lloyd George leaves for Switzerland on August 18. The Vindictive has been Te-floated at Ostend. The United States' State Department announces that the United States' forces i in the Black Sea will soon be reinforced by the battleship St. Louis and six destroyers to protect any American relief workers scattered through that area. [ Berlin reports that the money order service with Great Britain, Ireland, and j British Colonies is resuming.