GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.?

BRITISH ASSOCIATION. LONDON, August 30. Two thousand five hundred scientists from alf parts of tlia world, half of them women, have assembled at Leeds, for tho British Association Conference. Sir Arthur Keiths, in his presidential address, will reaffirm the Darwinian theory of man’s descent from monkeys. TELEVISION. LONDON, August 30. Princess Alary has consented to act as a sitter at a demonstration of television, and will have an image of her face transmitted over telephone wires to a screen in London. A STRAIGHT BANANA. LONDON, August 30. When a firm of London music publishers introduced a song “I’ve Never seen a Straight Banana,” they offered ten thousand sterling reward for the discovery of a specimen. A resident .of Jamaica. R. Livingstone, recalled this when he picked one in a. Kingston plantation, and had it photographed, officially measured, pickled in formnlen and deposited in a bank. His solicitors are now claiming the reward. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY. LONDON, August 30. The “Daily News” understands that communications are in progress between Whitehall and Sierra Leone, which will lead to tho drafting of a new ordinance for the abolition of tho right of recapture of slaves. The occasion may be seized to abolish slavery altogether.

TURKISH SUNDAY. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 30. In order to conform to international custom and also for financial and economic: .reasons, Turkey has adopted Sunday as a day of rest. Hitherto, in conjunction with other Aloslem countries, Friday has been reserved for worship. Henceforth Sunday will he re-named Friday. TRAIN GUARD’S REWARD. PARIS, August 30 The Minister for the Colonies lias awarded AI. Ribiari, the conductor of the second car in the Chamounix disaster. a gold medal for his valourous saving of sixty lives.

HUGE PETROL EXPLOSION. BERLIN, August 30. The explosion was heard for miles when the German oil tanker, “Swendy,” carrying 800 tons of oil from Colonge, caught fire and blew up oil the river Rhine, near Strasburg. The Captain, his wife and child, jumped into tlie river with their clothes blazing. Tho Captain was drowned, but the others were rescued, though most seriously burned. A CLUMSY SHIP. LONDON, August 30. The propeller of tho steamer Pandos Ileltana holed the steamer Torringtou, in a collision in the Thames the Torrington sinking alongside a wharf. Tlie Pandos Bel tail a and the Torrington were proceeding together down the Gravesend Reach when tho former struck, and cut in halves a small motor boat which had broken down. Its sole occupant jumped into tlie river and was rescued by a tug The Pandos Beltana then swung, and ns a result, the Torrington was holed and benched in a sinking condition. The Pandos Beltana was able to proceed to Australia. ENGLAND TO OTTAWA. LONDON, Aug. 30. Hamilton and Miucliun have set out on their flight to "Ottawa. Their departure was surprising, as it was given out last night that the Atlantic weather would be unfavourable for the next two or three days. Even more surprising was the Princess Lowenstein AVertseimer’s decision to go. She is financially helping the venture. She said that she did not know a passenger \vns being taken. She said a Foklcer Jupitor monoplane, specially constructed in Amsterdam, was being used.

ENGLISH AIR. TRAGEDY. LONDON, Aug. 30. While Observer Lothian and Flying Officer Hudson wore at a height of a thousand feet in a De Haviland machine at Farnhorough, Lothian was observed to crawl on to the fuselage in readiness for a parachute drop. Instead, however, of clearing tho machine, tho parachute became caught in the tail of the plane, and Lothian dangled in mid-air, suspended from waist straps. He attempted repeatedly to climb the hanging parachute. The pilot continually corrected tho com so of the plane, the tail of which was useless, and managed to keep a balance, despite the dead weight. Hudson made a wonderful landing, -idmost a vertical one, stopping immediately. Lothian was found unconscious. He suffered from a fractured skull and an injured spine. He died 1 at tho hospital.