GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(Australian A- N.Z. Cable Association.)

EMPIRE PRODUCERS. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, July 12. 11 Good packing brings good business,” is the -Marketing Hoard’s motto for the displaying advertising exhibition at Olympia next week, including a collection of labels and containers designed by special artists with a view to proving to producers of the Empire, the wide importance of presenting goods artistically and attractively. The Board has already bought up many designs. and others are available for sale.

BRITISH TRADE. LONDON, July 12. Board of Trade returns for June show the value of imports increased by i 11,791,000 and exports by £5,87(1,0(10. while re-exports decreased ,C 137.000. The principal increases were in imports of grain and flour £2,27(5,000, wood and' timber £1,051,000. In exports coal £3,811,000, iron and steel manufactures £1,025,000. The principal decreases were in imports of coal £025,000, oils and fats £1,077,000. In exports cotton yarns manufacture £1,05(5,000.

WIDESPREAD DAMAGE. LONDON, July 12. An eye-witness of the earthquake, who lias arrived at Cairo from Transjordania, reports the quake lasted 40 seconds. Three hundred people were killed find widespread damage done. Movements of lava beds were visiblo and had a terrifying effect on the desert Bedouins, who were inspired with awe.

DEATH SENTENCE COMM ['TED. (Received this dav at 10.15 a.m.) GIBRALTAR, July 12. Lieut. Duffy's sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life.

APPEAL FOR CLOSER TORCH. 'Australian Press Association & Sun.) (Received this day at 10.15 a.in.) LONDON. July 12. As a means of assisting new settlers and fostering Empire trade, the Lord Mayor has issued a, brochure appealing to United Kingdom Mayors, especially those in towns having namesakes in the Dominions, to institute regular correspondence with the Mayors thereof; also to form committees to encourage migration. Similarly it is urged that Dominion towns should create welfare committees.

Hon. Amery in a foreword, appeals for mutual knowledge and sympathy of kinsmen overseas.

WORLD’S SHTPBUILDING. (Received this dav at 10.25 ii.m.l LONDON, July 12. A gradual improvement in the tonnoago under construction throughout the world and the leaps and hounds of motor ships building are the outstanding features recorded in Lloyds Register. The latest shipbuilding returns show that in the three months ended 30th June 1.390,388 tons were altogether under construction in Britain and Ireland which is 173,456 tons more than at the end of March and 549,000 tons above the figures a year ago. The present total, indeed, is the highest since September, 19'24, though still half a million below the average tonnage building the year before the war. The total building in other countries is 1,450.157 tons, and shows an increase of ninety-seven thousand over the previous three months. The approximate figures lor leading foreign countries are Germany 408,000, Italy 227,000, Holland 172,000, United States 147.000, France 136,000. For the first time motor ship construction throughonut the world namely 1,459,595 tons exceeds that of steamers, though an afialysis of the figures shows that in Britain and Ireland it is only 82.8 per cent of steam.

SOVIET SENTENCE. (Iteceivod this day at 11.0 a.m.) MOSCOW, July 12, Drujelowski was sentenced to death. The Soviet prosecution made a new assertion without giving details, that Drujelowski was involved in a. plot to blow up Westminister Abbey. The main charges related to a. supposed forgery factory in an obscure room in Berlin, where it is alleged the Zinovieff letter was forged by two Russians white guards, Belgart and Gunanski. He received only £BO stg. because the letter was prematurely published in a ■Berlin newspaper. Drujelowski was deported from Berlin for forging documents on behalf of a Bulgarian rising He was then hounded from one country to another till, sick and hungry, he returned to Russia, though aware of the fate awaiting him. It is alleged he acted as a spy on behalf of Britain in Poland, Bulgaria Germany and Baltic States. He was only thirty-two years of age. He heard his sentence unmoved. There is no appeal against the sentence, 'because it is imposed hv a military tribunal.