GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) LONDON, Aug. 23. Bank of Australasia 214 7s fid; Bank of New South Wales £l4 10s ex dividend : Union Australia £ls; National New Zealand 1355. RUSSIANS ORDERED OUT. LONDON, Aug. 23. Tho Home Office has ordered two officials of Russia Oil Products, one a. director and the other a represeiitatie of Arcos on tho Russia Oil Products Board to leave the country. It is stated the order has no connection with the {business, but is because they have not fulfilled tlie conditions of admission. It is reported the Trade Union Congress is organising a protest. PRESSMEN DIFFER. •GENEVA, Aug. 23. A preliminary meeting of the League International Press Conference opening td-moijrow, Vevteajed two ’acute differences; firstly, as to property right in news, official agencies representatives claiming official news became their exclusive property all private agencies, especially Britan) and German resent; secondly, absolute equality of government treatment for official and private agencies in relation to the censorship.

A GREAT EXPLOSION. LONDON, Aug. 23. Like a combined typhoon anil earthquake is how an eye-witness described the terrific explosion of the Manchester Corporation Gas Works, recently reconstructed at a cost of nine hundred thousand. The explosion tore a great hole in the gasometer, and a. gigantic sheet of flame shot skyward. The second gasometer was fired and blazed fiercely,. Walls 400 yards distant were thrown down. A woman was blown from her bed and workmen flung down. Coke lorries near the gasometers were fired and the drivers badly burnt. A dense green pall hung over the city. The fire brigade were able to confine the flames to the burning gasometers, although six others wore in danger. The manager denies the explosion was connected with the Sacco agitation. GERMAN FLAGS. BERLIN, Aug. 23. Bv tlio Defence Minister’s order, mebers of armed forces must not fly the Imperial flag unless the Republi-. can black, red and gold, is alongside it. This follows the Prussian Government’s order that public buildings must fly the Republican flag on Constitution Day, which revived the flag controversy that caused Luther’s downfall last year. The municipality added fuel to the flames by ordering the ci'l authorities to Ixivcott hotels which refuse to fly tile __ Republican flag. This resulted in the Olier burgomaster declining an invitation toy dinner. Nationalist resentment against Geesler’s order was only reduced by the knowledge that Hindenburg desires a settlement. The only solution of the problem appears to be to fly both flags together.

A FABRICATION. MADRID, August 23,

The story that was cabled on tho sixth instant, alleging that a man ran amok with a revolver in a convent, and that he killed eight nuns and wounded two others, is now declared to he without foundation. The story is declared also to have been wrongly ascribed to the newspaper “ El Sol.” PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION. LONDON, Aug. 24. At the annual meeting of the Empire Producers’ Association, Ben Morgan, presiding, said the outstanding fact of the year was the growth tfr Empire consciousness that foreign nations were becoming more and more self-supporting, compelling Britain to seek markets in the oversea Empire ami vice versa. An important factflV in the work of the Empire Marketing Board. The position regarding marketing of Empire foodstuffs demands urgent attention. There is often a tremendous disproportion between producers and consumers’ prices. Certain, midlemen were necessary but wholesale speculation and manipulation by others should be checked. FLIGHT PREPARING. NEW YORK, Aug. 23. A giant three engined Fokker plane used by Wilkins in the Arctic expedition is being reconditioned at Boeng factory for a Pacific-Australian flight.