GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 41, 12 November 1926, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES

Mr. Bruce and General Hertzog will receive honorary doctorates of civil few at Oxford on' Tuesday. After staying six days in Adelaide the Empire Parliamentary delegation has departed for Perth. Lindsay Marshall, who with his wife was incinerated in a car in Bedfordshire, left £39,660 to his wife. This is now inherited by the children. Senor Debarros, who left Genoa on a flight to Brazil, on arrival at Las Palmas, stated that his seaplane had been damaged with criminal intent, which forced ■ him to land at Alicante. When he arrived at Gibraltar Debarros informed the Brazilian Consul of the occurrence. i ■ The Paris correspondent of the Lon-' don “Times”- reports tlrat the Ministry of the Interior states talit however re prehensible Ricciotti Garibaldi’s alleged actions were, they do not constitute a technical illegality, but they would justify his expulsion. The sttamer Majwa arrived at Malta a day late, en route to Australia. The captain reported a terrific passage across the Bay of Biscay. The force of the gale.at one.time was: so serious that successive waves washed a seaman overboard and back again, breaking both his legs.: A fishing party, composed of four men, three of whom are married, hasbeen missing-from Hobart since. Monday? The then spent the . week-end camping on Magazine Island, in Macquarie Harbour, It is supposed that the boat; was swamped on returning to the mainland. Little hope. is. en-. tertained of. finding the men alive. - The London “Daily .Telegraph’s” wireless expert' understands., that- in, unofficial tests South Africa’s beam sta-. tion maintained . communication with Cape Town for longer than the eleven hours provided by the contract. >b,xpepfs. who. are .- readjusting the aerial believe, that it will.give an-even longer readable reception. Mrs. Mary Orton, widow of the Tichborne. claimant, died, at the age-of 87, and Was buried at Southampton, where, for thirty.- years she. had been an inmate of a Workhouse. She claimed the right to be called Lady Tichborne, and to. the end her .naihe appears. in the workhouse records and ,in the death certificate as M. 5. Tichborne. General Pangalos, 4 the former Premier of Greece, is a pathetic figure in his island prison 'at Crete. He has completely lost his reason. He plays with paper crowns and diadems before a mirror, assumes regal airs towards his gaolers, and orders severe punishment for the mbecause thev fail to treat him with ceremonial. His delusions vary. Sometimes he imagines that he is Emperor of Byzantium, and demands the immediate appearance of the fleet to transport him in triumph to his' throne.