GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

1! (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) GRIM PRECAUTIONS. ° LONDON, Aug. 27. ’» Drastic precautions against premat- turo burial were ordered by Janies e Mott, of Birmingham, who died aged 0 82, leaving £19,088. Ho ordered that two surgeons were first to apply every e test to prove life extinct, and then y to put a strong dose of prussic acid i- in the mouth, and afterwards to cut r the head off. Alternatively they were to dissect the body by post mortem. 1 Finally, the deceased ordered his rco mains to be buried at sea or cremated. e YACHTING. 2 London, Aug. 26. e By heating Sir Thomas Lipton’s ? Shamrock at Dartmouth regatta, the - Britannia achieved its third successive - win. HONOURING ZAGHOUL. 1 CAIRO, Aug. 26. * The Government have decided to ; erect a statue to Zaghoul in. Cairo > and Alexandria and also to purchase Zaghoul’s home for use as a museum, wherein they will erect a mausoleum for his remains. Other memorials included the preservation of the house in which he was horn, the foundation of a school and (hospital. SWIMMING RECORD. HONOLULU, Aug. 26. Weismuller broke his own 43b-yards swimming record in four minutes fiftv seconds. CH.-fLfAPI.VE. BERLIN, Aug. 26. In addition, to the deprivation, of Chnliapine of the tite of People’s Artist. the Soviet Council is confiscating his extensive estate in Russia. RAW COTTON PRICE RISES NEW YORK, Aug. 27. Cotton future advanced three dollars per hale, following firmer Liverpool cables and a wave of buying from both American and -foreign sources, attributed to the trade being influenced by reports of a change, in tlio weather outlook for the cotton belt. STORMS IN NOVA SCOTIA. . HALIFAX, Aug. 26. Fierce storms in Nova Scotia caused eight deaths and four are missing. The damage caused to property crops and shipping amounted to one million dpiJars.