GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(Bv Telegraph—Per Press Association.)

LUCKLESS MOTOR. BUDAPEST, July 20

The Archduke Franz Ferdinand's motor-car, in which he was assassinated at e.Srajevo, which led to the World War, has just ended its most unlucky career. In the last thirteen years, thirteen of its occupants have been killed.

The last two were a Hungarian dealer and a friend.

They were driving the car to Roitmania with the intention of selling it, but on the journey the car capsized, pinning them underneath it, and killing them.

SHACK IjETON'S TOMB. LONDON, Aug. I. The late Sir Ernest Siiaekleton's tomb lias left the docks in eight giant packing cases, aboard the collier Harpon. An imposing granite monument will surmount Siiaekleton’s grave in South Georgie. as an evidence of Lady Siiaekleton’s love for her gallant husband.

PRESERVATION OE STONEHENGE. LONDON. Aug. 5. Mr S. Baldwin. Mr R. MacDonald. Mr Hardy. Viscount Grey, and others, have appealed for Cto,ooo to purchase I 1 11 acres of Salisbury Plain, and thus to ensure for the solitude of Stonehenge perpetuity. Otherwise, extensive building close to Stonehenge is inevitable.

CHRISTIAN UNITY. LAUSANNE. Aug. X. The Faith Order Congress, at its opening session, debated the necessity for Christian unity. A Lutheran pastor. Rev. Ebert, assured tbe Conference that the Lutheran movements wished for eoi’lnhoration. The Archbishop of Germany, a.s representing the Oecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, said that brunches of the Orthodox ('Eastern! Church favoured the old principles of Christ ianii v.

The Archbishop of Armagh lieland) said that it was. desirable, above all, that they should approach tin question in a religious spirit, and especially in regard to the problems of dogma.

Bishop McConnell, ol Pittsburgh. I .S.A., appealed to the Churches to evangelise the world on the basis of toe original Gospels, instead of on the fines of tbe modern interpretations. This Christianity of trying to live as .fesus did must lie applied to all life.

INSURANCE PROBLEM. AMSTERDAM, Aug. o. The International Maritime Committee debated a draft convention on the compulsory insurance of passengers. Sir Norman Hill declared that since the war the dissatisfaction of passengers with their legal status had become even more serious. The onlv methods of settling this problem were a reliance oil common law. which was often illusory for the passengers, or else rei’iance on a draft convention based on compulsory insurance. lie. therefore, proposed a resolution that a sub-committee be instructed to draft an international convention embodying Insurance, which would ensure the support of both passengers and shipowners.

Doctor (-evoking. Doctor Ifagge, and Doctor Asser. on behalf of Germany. Sweden and Holland respectively, expressed the fear that Sir N. Hill’s resolution would imply that the meeting was in agreement with Midi draft convention.

Finally, the meeting unanimously iirgeed to a resolution instructing the sub-committee In devise a draft convention based, if possible, on a system of insurance which would lie i'ikel.v to secure the unanimous approval of tho Maritime Co mni il4 ee. BOGUS BARONETS. LONDON. Aug. 4.

Sixty bogus baronets will find their names missing from the roll, published by the Standing Council, on the baronetage. Colonel Fixley. the Council's Registrar, explains that the Home Office asked him to prepare nn authentic roll in 1911. Tt i.s now complete, after much trouble and many abusive letters from those who were omitted.