GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1921, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

MINISTERS’ SALARIES REDUCED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, August 9. Mr. Lloyd George, before leaving England, intimated that the Ministerial salaries would be reduced shortly. BOY SCOUT FOR ANTARCTIC. London, August 9. 'Sir Ernest Shackleton intends interviewing eleven boy scouts, aged between seventeen and nineteen, chosen by Sir Baden Powell with a view to taking one on his forthcoming expedition to the Antarctic on board the “Quest." SEAMEN’S WAGES REDUCED. Stockholm, August 10. i The seamen have accepted a 20 per' cent, reduction in wages. EXPLOSION IN JAPAN. Tokio, August 9. The first reports of the Kinoshima explosion over-estimated the casualties and it is now reported that only 100 were killed. JAPANESE STRIKE SETTLED. Tokio, August 9. It is announced at Kobe that the striking shipyard workers have decided to resume work on the condition that the preliminary compromise in the settlement. giving the workers a voice in the mechanical direction of the plants, shall be made the basis of further discussions. BACHELORS FEAR TAXATION. London, August 10. The Ballybay Bachelors’ Club is appealing to all local residents who are eligible to join, pointing out that, owing to women’s increasing power in the Government of the country a bachelor tax is inevitable unless strongly resisted. RUNNYMEDE SAVED. London, August 10. After a vigorous Press campaign against the Government’s decision to auction the Runnymede Meadows, on which King John and the barons camped prior to the signature of Magna Charta, Sir A. Griffith-Bascawen, .(replying to a question in the House of Commons, announced that he was taking action to prevent the sale.