GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.'. GEOGRAPHER'S VIEW. London, Aug. ni. At the British Association Conference, Dr Rudmore Brown, after pointing out the belief in an Antarctic continent is yet hypothetical, turned to tho Northern Hemisphere. Dr Bhown prophesised that eventually the tide of white settlement would definitely set northward, even to the Arctic Seas. It was not presumptuous to say, he declared, that one hundred years would witness it. A WOMAN STONED. BELGRADE. Aug. 31. Being mistaken for a witch, while she was painting the Bosnian mountains-. an English woman, named Miss Chester, was the victim of superstitious women villagers, and was stoned. She was taken to a hospital. The authorities propose punishing the whole village. sa.RNC E CONGRESS. LONDON, Sept. 1. Doctor G. P. Didder, dealing at the Science Congress with the subject of sponges traced a connection between jazz and jelly fish. |ur over a million years lie said. human appreciation of rhythm was derived from jolly fish, otherwise flagellates and preflagellates which man descend d ten thousand millions generations ago would have been spenecless. Our forefathers rhythmically accumulated energy employed in building themselves up. We have not forgotten this but because we are land animals we have grown liigggr and less limbs snap. Rhythm was readjusted enabling an addition with the number of molecules exhausted Lei ween bear- but this adjustment was linperieet and the brain shrank won age. .-■< iidilv

and death supervened whereas llagelletes never died.

BRITISH STEEL TRADE SLUMP. London, Supt. 1. An effort is being made to recover the dominance of the British heavy steel makers. The makers offer a, rebate of 7s 6d per ton on joists and five shillings per ton on other defined materials to those consumers not purchasing from the Continent. the signatories to this cflort point out that tho present imports mean idle collieries, coke ovens, furnaces and iron and steel works, while certainly over one hundred thousand workers now idle are losing their skill. AUTHOR’S MILL. LONDON. Aug. 31. The late Jerome K. Jerome left estate valued at £.>178. It all goes to his wife.

TO KILL BLACKBERRY. LONDON. Sept. 1. “The Times” trade supplement says : The scientists at the Parasite Zoo at Farnhain Royal, are attacking the problem of enabling the Dominions to combat innumerable peals, such as the blowfly. It is also hoped to eradicate the blackberry pest in New Zealand and Australia by means of an insect whose larvae w ill work down to the r olstocks and up again, thus destroying the young plant. The breeding and exporting of these parasites is conditioned by the precautions against exporting dangerous super-parasites, but only those confining themselves to scientific pests. The research is also being directed specially again:t the earwig and the codliu moth. • EXPRESS DERAILED. (Received this day at S n.m.) PARIS, Sept. 2. The Bordeaux express was derailed near Tours when travelling at 60 miles hourly, but nobody was killed or injured. BULGARIA’S QUEEN.

(Received tin's day nt 8 a.in.) BUCHAREST. Sept. 2. Tt is reported that Queen Marie has quarrelled with Premier Bratiano regarding the control of the Regency and educating of the young King, Michael, and threatens to enter a Convent. SCOTT fST I BAN. LONDON, Sept. 1. The Brncmnr Highland gathering forbids girls and women dancing in kilts, since tradition prescribes that kilts he worn by men oni’y. This much surprised feminine professional dancers, who previously competed in such numbers in the presence of the King and Queen in contest programmes. flood catastrophe. (Received this dnv at 0.30 n.m.) WARSAW, Sept. 2. It is estimated that one hundred and eighty persons are dead, and that ten thousand people are homeless aiul destitute in the track of the devastating uoods. The damage amounts to one million sterling. Small towns have been completely destroyed. Tt is still raining heavily. The Polish Government is rushing relief measures. Aeroplanes have participated prominently in hazardous rescues. PARIS. Sept, 2. The engine and five coaches of the Bordeaux express were derailed. No deaths arc reported except the drirei who is probaibly buried in the debris. Police suspect sabotage. PARTS, Sept. 2. The “Blue Bird” was two hours circling over Le Bourgot while the tanks were being emptied. The failure was duo to inability to achieve height. They seldom got beyond eight hundred'feet. Their wives wept with joy to see the men back safe.

HON. AMEBY’S TOUR. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN. Sept. 2. Hon. Amery who has been careful in keeping clear of controversial topics during his tour of South Africa, was placed in a delicate position at n civic banquet at Durban, where feelings of intense loyalty to the British Empire have been accentuated by the Flag Bill bitterness. The Mayor, proposing the toast, protested warmly against the l «>on Government robbing him, as a Britisher, of the right to retain his own nationality. Murmurs of dissent arose, but .Mr Amerv handled an awkward situation tactfully .emphasising that there was little new in the recent Imperial Conference decision, hut that the basis o the British view of the Empire was the equal status of the Dominions, and for this purpose he included Britain as a Dominion herself. SOUTH RHODE ST A PREMIER. CAPETOWN, Sept. 2. It. is officially announced that H. U Moffatt (Minister of Mines) succeeds the late Sir Charles Cogldan as Premier of Southern Rhodesia.