GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 62, 7 December 1926, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES

The aviator Captain Williams passed over Jervis Bay en route to Melbourne. M. Paul Claudel, the noted litterateur, has been appointed French Ambassador to the United States. Earl Spencer has converted his estate into a limited liability company. The Ladies’ Army and Navy Club has taken a long lease of Earl Spencer s London mansion for club premises. The Royal Commission on Thames Bridges unanimously favours preserving Waterloo Bridge, but adapting it to its present needs, as it is admitted that strengthening and widening will be expensive. A Sydney message states that Mr. H. B. Larkin, chairman of the Commonwealth Shipping Board, has resigned. The resignation is understood to be due to differences of opinion with other members of the board. A cable message has been received bv the Underwriters’ Association m Melbourne /stating that nothing was saved when the steamer Ayrshire was burnt ofi Colombo. The Ayrshire had a full cargo of Australian produce. Peter Murray, aged 32, ex-member of the Scottish Rugby international team, died in hospital at Vancouver oti Saturday night'from concussion of the brain sustained in a scrum in the afternoon in a Rugby game between Victoria and representatives of the University of British Columbia. Murray resided in Canada for two years A French inventor, M. Robert, who, since 1898, has been working on aeronautical development, is planning a giant lifebuov parachute, with a carrying surface of 500 square metres, capable of supporting an entire aeroplane It would be attached to the fuselage with metal work, as a precaution against fire, but the passengers would also be provided with parachutes.