GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 March 1922, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

ANARCHY IN LISBON. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Lisbon, March 15. Anarchy continues, and it is reported that the troops, which had surrounded the city, have entered it. PRINCE HENRY AS HORSEMAN. London, March 14. Prince Henry, riding his own Icean 111., finished second at Grafton in a point to point race after leading to the last fence over a 3J mile course. ANGLICAN CHURCH OFFERINGS. London, March 1 4. The Church of England’s voluntary offerings in Britain for the year totalled £10,493,716, including missions. ANTI-BOLSHEVIK SCHEME. Vancouver, March 14. Semen off has arrived at Victoria, en route to Paris, to obtain the support of compatriots for an anti-Bolshevik project fomenting a revolution in Western Siberia. PERSIAN OIL AGREEMENT Teheran, March 15. The Government has received £200,000 in advance from Washington against future oil royalties, indicating that the Standard .and Anglo-Persian companies have reached an agreement regarding their conflicting interests in the Persian oilfields. ENGINEERS’ LOCK-OUT. London, March 15. The joint council of the Amalgamated Engineers’ Union has decided to ask Messrs. Chamberlain and Macnamara to urge the Government to appoint a court of inquiry to go fully into the engineering dispute. BIG FLYING BOAT WRECKED. London, March 15. The Valentia. one of the three giant Vickers flying boats just completed for the Air Ministry, has been wrecked off j Hastings. The craft nose-dived into the sea. The crew of four were rescued, after clinging to the boat’s tail for half an hour. PITCAIRN ISLANDERS. Sydney, March 16. Sir Cecil Rodwell, Reporting on his visit to the Pitcairn Islands, when en route to London, said he had seen no signs of the degeneracy among the Islanders which it was alleged was noticeable there. Possibly former observers were prejudiced by the theory that inter-marriage inevitably resulted in degeneration. He believed this was by no means the case where the original stock was sound. The population was now 88 males and 81 females. There were no grounds to fear over-population. The Islanders would welcome a few agricultural families. PACIFIC ISLANDS WANT POPULATION. Sydney, March 16. Sir Cecil Rodwell, Governor of Fiji, who has returned after six months’ visit to England, said the great need of the Pacific Islands was population. The native population was decreasing, including Europeans, in many islands, but that tendency appeared to be arrested in the Fiji group.