GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10311, 21 January 1927, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

WORLD-WIDE HAPPENINGS

A live-election for the Antigonish ami Grugsborough constituency in the Canadian House of Commons to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the Conservative member, Mr. William Duff, resulted in a Liberal being returned over his Conservative opponent. . „ Trades Union circles m Melbourne are negotiating with the Labor Councils in all the. States with the object of repudiating the Federal Government’s'industrial delegation to the United States. Owing to the reduction in the estimates for the military forces, the Federal Defence Department is so short of cash that it is unable to pay the train fares of permanent soldiers. The Department has ' circularised the adjutants of all battalions of the 30 divisions, which embraces the whole of Aactoria, that movements of troops entailing expense must be eliminated. This will seriously hamper the- training of citizen forces. . , _. The Brisbane Industrial Disputes Committee of the Trades and Labor Council endorsed the action of the building trades employees in striking for a 40-hour week, and declared, a number of private works “black.” Floods in the far north of Queensland have disorganised 'the railway traffic. Extensive damage lias been done. The Paris newspaper, Le Journal, states that the German delegation asked the Berlin Government for instructions regarding fresh proposals which it intends to make on the sub•ject of fortresses. Speaking at a banquet at Toronto to the retiring Lieutenant-Governor, Colonel 11. Coekshutt, the Premier, Mr. Ferguson, advocated lifting the ban on the granting of titles to Canadians. He said he hoped that the Ottawa Government would see t’vk ‘the defect, whereby a Canadian is ineligible for royal honors, was remedied.

' A demonstration of the new regeneration system adopted by the Eastern Extension Telegraph * Co., whereby delays at intermediate stations are eliminated, took place at Capetown on Wednesday,- and was remarkably successful. Congratulatory messages were exchanged between London and Capetown. Lord Burnham expressed the opinion that the system was an enormous development in the facilities for cable communication. Messages were transmitted practically instantaneously.