GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

INDUSTRY FOR AUSTRALIA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —» oprrlght. London, March 7. Sir J. D. Connolly (Agent-General for West Australia) visited Bradford and interviewed the principals of Hird and Sons with reference to establishing a woollen factory at Albany. PREFERENCE TO BRITAIN. Kingston, March 7. The Jamaica Legislature has adopted a tariff Bill giving preference to Canadian and English goods, including foodstuffs and textiles. NEW MOTOR SHIP. London, March 8. The Union Steamship Company’s 7000 ton motor ship Hauraki lias undergone satisfactory trials on the Clyde. A speed of nearly thirteen knots is expected. The oil consumption at full speed when i fully loaded will not exceed 10 tons daily. ANARCHY IN THE CRIMEA. Helsingfors, March 8. Newspapers state that, owing to famine, anarchy has broken out in several divisions of the Crimea. Mobs of hun-ger-stricken peasants at Sebastopol, Theodosa, and Kertch wrecked houses, shops and public buildings, and seized food. SHIPBUILDING DISPUTE. London, March 8. The Council of the Amalgamated Engineering Union had two hours’ conference with Mr. Macnamara and afterwards the employers decided to meet the men’s representatives to-morrow. The outlook is regarded as hopeful. CLAIM FOR DAMAGES. London. March 8. In the case in which Greenwood, a solicitor who had been tried and acquitted on a charge of having poisoned his wife, claimed damages because his eff- | igy had been removed and placed between those of Captain Webb and Sir Thomas Lipton. The jury awarded Greenwood £l5O damages.

THE COOGEE TRAGEDY. Sydney, March 8. The Council of the State Surf LifeSaving Association discussed the tragedy in which Mervyn Gannon lost his life and decided that, while complimenting those who helped him ashore, it was undesirable that the association should make any recommendation regarding awards or take steps towards having a public fund created. At the inquest on the shark victim, his aunt gave evidence that he** nephewe denied that he received assistance, but said that he fought the shark alone. A wave brought him to the beach, where three men assisted him. All was over then. The inquest was ad- ’ iourned for a „