GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(Bv Telegraph—Per Press Association.) an air race. LONDON, July 30. The most famous pilots in the con litre including Hinkler arc competing to-day in a 040 miles air race on the East Coast for the King's Cup. Twenty-seven machines have entered and range from light aeroplanes with J() h.p. engines, to single sea-ter fighters capable of doing two and a half miles per minute. Two women are competing, Mistress Elliot Glynn and Lady Bailey. The mystery machine of the race is a tiny monoplane capable of 170 miles per hour, flown by Captain H. L. Broad, last year’s winner. The scratch man in the flight is Lieutenant Pope, whose Avro starts five hours after the departure ot the limit man.

O’HIGGINS TRAGEDY. LONDON. July 29.

Owen Donnelly, one of the ten men previously arrested, who was retained in custody, and Thomas Errigan, aUo charged in connection with the minder of All- Kevin O’Higgins, has been rein anded. The police are not yet offering any evidence.

INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN. PARIS, July 31. An international congress is being held shortly, probably in Holland. to plan a world-wide campaign against Communism. GUNPOWDER PLOT. LONDON, July JO. News of a Leningrad gunpowder plot, which the Soviet authorities had tints far kept a secret, has reached Paris. The plotters in this ease were more successful than was Guy Fawkes. They caused numerous deaths, and but for technical errors, would have blown the whole Leningrad Soviet sky high.

NEAY FASCIST LAW. HOME, July 29. 'Widespread interest has been aroused at Cremona in the first collective contract under the new Italian Labour Charter (details of which were cabled on April 22nd last). The employers have undertaken to give their workmen six days’ annual vacation on full pay. Any workmen discharged for no fault of their own are to receive three days'

pay for each year’s service. In the event of a dispute arising the parties have undertaken to resort to conciliation. If this fails, then the dispute goes to a provincial tribunal, and finally, it will he necessary to go to the Fascist Labour Judiciary, whose decision is absolute.

OUTPUT OF FERTILISERS

LONDON, July 29.

The “ Daily News ” states that Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., the recently formed chemical trust, has i'.iid out €7,000.000 on a synthetic ammonia factory at Bellingham, Northumberland, and it contemplating the expenditure of a further €13,000,000. . This expenditure, it is stated, will enable the trust’s production of sulphate of ammonia to be increased from 250 to 800 tons a day, and also provide for tlie manufacture of other patent fertilisers. There is, it is stated, a possibility of a marketing agreement with the German fertiliser manufacturers.

LORD OXFORD. LONDON, July 29

In order to end speculations and inaccurate reports. Lord Reading has issued a statement that a few of Lord Oxford’s friends and political admirers, irrespective of party, felt that they wished to offer him a gift in the form of a capital sum and a life income, in appreciation of his public services.

Lord Oxford expressed his willingness. The following contributed: Lords Abercomvav, Beauchamp, Beaverbrook, Cowdray, Derby, Devonport, Shuttleworth, Sir Abe Bailey, Sir “ Incheape, Lincolnshire, Reading, and Alfred Aloud, Sir John Simon, the Honourable Peter Parkin, Afessrs Bernhard Baron, H. N. Gladstone, and Jas. De Rothschild. Lord Oxford could have made his fortune during the Great AVar, hut sacrificed it for his unremunerative political career. He could have taken the pension provided for ex-Afinisters, but he would then have been obliged to .sign a statement to the effect that he was in straitened circumstances. It has hcen stated that he coui'd not do this, because lie was in receipt of an annuity from a peer, who, however, died recently without making any provision for the continuance of tlie annuity. thus rendering the intervention of the friends of Lord Oxford necessary. Neither Lord nor Lady Oxford, nor the subscribers, however, are willing to make any statement of the facts. It has been variously reported that the capital subscribed was between ten and tlfirty thousand pounds, and that the annuity was three thousand. There has been a complaint by a section of the Liberals that Lord o.x--f'ord is receiving benefits from Tory peers. This has provided a retort from Lord Uoaverbrook as follows: “ If this be an objection, why did not those Liberals look after Lord Oxford themselves? Heaven knows, he lias done enough for them ! ”

DE VALERA’S REFUSAL. LONDON. July 30. Mr Kamonu do Valera says that, according to the Free State Police, he is in danger of being shot, hut personally ho has received no threatening letters. He says that personally he is not contented with the official action taken, and that he does not want any protection from the police. MOUNT VESUVIUS. ROME. July 30. Mount Vesuvius yesterday became violently active. An eruptive cone burst out on the western side of the volcano. It began emitting a stream of incandescent lava, which burnt the wooden steps leading into the crater. The lava has now engulfed many of tlie Observatory’s instruments. The cone is now subsiding.