GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10306, 15 January 1927, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

AVORLD-AVIDE HAPPENINGS

The Daily News states the Government’s refusal of the nomination of'A. J.-Cook as the Miners’ Keclcration representative f’ci> the Mineral Transport. Committee, caused a mild sensation at a meeting of the Miners’ Executive, which decided to adhere to the selection. Despite the decision of the New South Wales “Opposition not to grant pairs with Ministers, both Messrs McNeil and Baddele-y are sailing for England next month, the Government anticipating that the session will be ended by that time. A Montreal message states: —“We understand New Zealand is the happiest country in the world; we know the women helped to make it so, said Miss Idola St. Jean, who headed a committee of men and women leading the campaign in Quebec for women’s suffrage when received yesterday' by Mr J. G. 'Coates, who expressed* great interest in their activities here.

The Mediterranean fleet, headed,by H.M.S. Warspite, Admiral Keyes’ flagship, on which Mr Winston Churchill is a guest, made an impressive entry into the Athens harbor on a week’s visit. There will be elaborate entertainments. The Greeks are organising special race meetings and football matches. A representative of the Foreign Minister welcomed Mr Churchill and escorted him to the Acropolis and museums. A. Sydney cable states that the damage caused in Mungo Scott’s lire is now estimated at £40,(J00. As the .result of a round table conference, states a Capetown message, delegates of the Indian and South African Governments announced that a i provisional agreement has been arrived at, subject to. ratification bv the two Governments and Parliaments. The latest Fascist crusade is against music halls. Some have already been ordered to close, and Prefects of provinces have been instructed to watch similar places and prevent the undermining of the moral and physical culture of the country. An official telegram to Madrid.from the Spanish zone in Morocco says that auxiliary troops dispersed with heavy losses a* strong force of the enemy entrenched in the village of Harek. The rest of the zone is quiet. The N.S.W. Premier, Mr Lang, is meeting with so many obstacles to the establishment of child endowment both constitutional ami fanatical, that there is a likelihood that the scheme will be held in abeyance until next session, by which time the Government will have been enabled to find means of overcoming the difficulties. At a meeting of the Australian Society of Engineers in Sydney it was decided to reject a proposal to declare a striire in the metal industry, with the object of forcing the employers to grant a 44-liour week, as the early decision of the Arbitration Court in the 44-hour case is expected. The Federal Arbitration Court at Melbourne, after hearing argument in the appeals of the Waterside Workers’ Federation in opposition to the registration of the Permanent and Casual Wharf Laborers’ Union of Australia, referred the matter back to the deputy registrar. The appeals meantime remain part heard until the registrar reports to the Court.