GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 54, 27 November 1926, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES

The Tofua has left Suva for Auckland with 27,000 cases of fruit. This is the largest number shipped for many years.

Thirtv thousand Master Masons and hundreds of Knights Templar assisted on Thursday at the dedication in Detroit of the largest Masonic temple m the world. It cost 7,000,000 dollars.

Hesketh Pearson, a writer of stories in popular periodicals, and literary agent to the publishers of “The Whispering Gallery,” has been arrested on a charge of obtaining a cheque by false pretences.

It is reported bv a London message that the Rev. V. H. Jellkyn has received an anonymous gift of £lOOO on behalf of new settlement work in Australia in connection with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.

The Australian Prime Minister has commissioned a Federal member, Mt. Manning, privately to investigate and renort on the marketin'’ of Aiwlrnimn products, including retail stores in the West End of London.

The annual conference of the Victorian Provincial Press Association has appointed a committee to consider . a scheme to utilise wireless broadcasting stations to stinnlv news to country papers and ascertain the practicability of such a service.

A Cairo message states that for the first time since the war a German Judge was nominated to the recently-created ■Mixed Tribnt'nb This does not connote a revival of Germany’s renounced capitulatory rights.

The committee set up by the Norwegian Government, reporting on the results of the prohibition plebiscite, recommends the issue of cards for persons over fl desfrinu- to bnv I'minr. but sttocrests debarring ner=nns who are breaking the Honor laws or who have proved themselves unworthy.

Urgent private affairs prevent Liett-tonnnt-Commander and La.dv Doris Vviier from accommanving the Duke and D'mhoss of York on their coming tour. Tlm Hon Mrs Tn’m Lyttle-Gib rnnnr fkerefore becomes T,aflv-m-Wait-ing. The Equerrv will be announced later.

The text of the finding of the Roman Catholic Church tribunal which annulled the Marlborough marriage affirms that it was a prior attachment on the part of the Duchess which made the marriage unhappy from the start. Tin’s was confirmed bv all the witnesses, includin<> the Duke of Marlborough, the Duchess, an’ Mrs. W K. Vanderbilt. Accordingly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt was not given the necessary liberty o, contract to make the marriage valid.

Sir Alan Cobham has arrived at New York bv the Homeric to commence a lecture tour An attempt on Thursday to lie a Moth seanlnne from the Ouararitine Station to the Bntferv to nrove the nossihih’tv of thus expeditin'’ the delivery ol mails was a failure The liner was delaved for three hours The craft was lowered but was onlv buffeted around bv the swells, and was eventually towed ashore The maioritv of the nassen"ers were indi"nnnt. ns thev had missed their trains for Thanksgiving Dav dinners