GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) A.AIEuK AN EDITORS IN LONDON. RUGBY, July 27. A party of 25 editors of American newspapers hnvo arrived in London. They will remain here a week, during which they will lie entertained by various newspapers and Press organisations. On Thursday they will he received by Sir Austen Chamberlain at the Foreign Office.

KING OF BULGARIA. '.MATRIMONIAL PLANS. LONDON, July 28. The Vienna correspondent of the " Daily News” says: “ The King of Bulgaria has started oil his European holiday tour, resulting in much Balkan press speculation as to whether his real object is matrimony. '* In this connection the name ol a lady connected with the British Court is mentioned. “It is stated that the Bulgarian Premier strongly urges such a union in preference to a Rumanian or Italian princess.” AVAR .MUSEUM ADDITION. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 27. A most interesting addition to the Imperial War .Museum is the famous wardrobe, wherein Private Fowler was hidden for nearly four years by Madame Belmont Gilbert.

HOOKE’S FLY. DELHI, .July 28. Hooke landed at Aurongabad. 290 miles from Calcutta after encountering stormy weather. DA ('BET’S STATEMENT. PARIS. July 28. At. Daubet publishes in the “ Action Franeniso” an open letter to the Minister ot Justice stating lie is prepared to return to prison provided his complaint regarding his son’s death he investigated fairly, free of obstacles. INDIAN FLOOD DISASTER. “DLL fir. July 29. A grave situation has boon created in A\ extern India, bv a continunnie of tbo floods. Tin* whole* area of the Broach cotton crop is now under water. This will necessitate the replantation of the area when the Hoods subside. However, in many cases, the growers are faced with a big loss. A sudden rise in the River Sabarmati lias caused alarm at Aliinedabad. where the suburbs were evacuated.

It is officially stated that nearly two thousand homes have collapsed. The damage is estimated at fifty thousand sterling. Six deaths are reported. There are thousands of people homeless. During six days the Sabaruiati River rose fifty feet. Over fifty inches of rain have been registered. Railway passengers, after being marooned three days, were rescued in boats.

Bnruda is surrounded by ten feet of water. Efforts to reach the town have been unsuccessful.

RAILWAY DISASTER. CAPETOWN. July 29

Two Europeans and 33 natives were killed .and scores more were injured, in a collision between a native mail train and a goods train in the Transvaal. Carringges were telescoped. A hatch of convicts aboard refused the chance to escape, but they did splendid rescue work, which was conducted in darkness and sleet, in an altitude of six thousand feet above the sea. level. Alany of the injured died from exposure. The natives were proceeding to the gold mines.

HILL SIXTY. LONDON, July 28. The Minister of War, Sir L. A\ orthington Evans sent a letter to M Calmer (cabled 20th) proposing that he ask the Imperial War Grave Commission to accept and maintain Hi) It is understood Mr Colder has agreed to the suggestion. Air Fabian Ware (Vice-Chairman of* the Graves Commission) said that it was too early to say how the Commission would deal with Hill Sixty. There was no question of more memorials being placed on it, as all the sites required for the purpose had already been acquired by the Regiments. Tt was likely that the Hill, containing the dug-outs and the trendies, would he preserved in tlie form of a park, such as tlie Newfoundland Memorial Park.

BANKRUPT PEER’S MARRIAGE BOULOGNE, July 28.

Lord Torrington, whose bankruptcy was cabled on March 19th., was permitted to leave the hospital here, and he was quietly married to his constant companion. Mrs Humphrey. He immediately after returned to the hospital.

BUSES v. RAILWAYS. LONDON, July 28. Faced with a serious loss in passenger revenue through the competition of the motor coaches, the British railways proposed to seek from Parliament the power to establish their own road bus services. The railways complain that they are unfairly handicapped, because they maintain their own roads. The advent of the holiday season is witnessing an unprecedented effort by the railways to attract passengers, they offering exceptionally cheap rates and new trading facilities.

O’HIGGINS MURDER. LONDON. July 28. The Irish Free State Government has granted Mrs O’Higgins and her children £20,000 which is being invested in a trust fund. FAMOUS FLIER KILLED. LONDON, July 28. Barnard, the famous flier, was killed near Bristol, while testing a racer. He intended to fly for the King’s Cup. Engine trouble developed and the machine banked, nosed diced, fell a hundred feet, and was smashed. Barnard receiving terrible injuries, causing death. LONDON. July 29. Barnard was one of the finest air navigators in the world. He had already twice won the King’s Cup. He navigated by the most up-to-date scientific methods. Where many pilots preferred, when possible to depend on landmarks, Barnard used instruments and calculations only. He habitually flew on the assumption that there were no landmarks to guide him and thus flew safely in cloud and fog. As senior pilot of the Imperial Airway he was most careful, hut lie took plenty of risks in war time, when engaged in day and night bombing. Fie had flown throughout Europe in a hundred different types of machines and had flown more than half a million miles in crossChannel journeys. Among his exploits were a flight from Paris to London above the clouds without once seeing the ground after the take off. He journeyed from Croydon to Cologne one clay and covered 840 miles round Britain at an average speed of over 150 miles an hour.

HORATIO BOTTOMLEY. LONDON, July 29. Horatio Bottoinley has Itcett discharged from gaol.