GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(Pv Telegraph— Per Press Association. - . ILL-FATED MAN. LONDON, Sept. V. A dramatic solution of the mystery of the Hourncmonth Sands revealed by the “ Daily Express.” It is recaked that Arthur Paul;, aged thistysi:., a man of line ; hysique and of good ch: rr.-ter, was sentenced :o death at Old Bnii'cy in 1919 for the murder of hi: sister-in-law, after a fruitless pica of insanity.

l’ank at the trial declared that while •hey ivoro in a house alone, the woman made a suggestion which so angered him that he shot he", in order to save

plained reason. Paul; was not hanged. Hi: sentence was commuted io imprisonment for life; but ho was released last May, after serving only eight years. Paul: went to South London to live with his brother, who in the meantime, had remarried. Pank on August 28th left the house on a

supposed holiday. Two days later n man walking on the bench at Bournemouth saw a hotly dressed in a bathing suit floating in the sen. The police failed to trine its identity. An inquest was lioi’d on a man unknown, and n verdia! of “ found drowned ” was return 'o. Then, wlc.-n if. seemed inevitable that he would he buried in a nameless pauper's grave, a laumlryninrk due led in ( sminunic.-i: inn with bis brother, who journeyed to Bournemouth, and recognised the face us that of the man who had committed murder to save his honour.

A CSTR A 1.1 AN G HUM AX INDEMNITY LONDON, Kept. 8. Germany's reparation payments to Australia for the year ended June 39th totalled CLIO,OOO and in addition Germany during the same period paid Australia £912,000 that was due before the opcintion ol the Dawes Plan. TRIAL Or 81'if Ft. LONDON, Dpt. 8. The Dai.v Mail's Rig: rorrosnoiid,jr,t slates: Dem yt o careful stage management, the trial of the 20 alii gad British pics here <cabled on Aug. 30th.) is attracting little attention. according to tie Leningrad newspapers, v-liudi report that (lie population are more oMircri.ed by the recently instil-.ted ration cards for bread, dour, sugar. poti'idesun, ten, and other necessities. Most of the evidence at the trial is based on the defendants’ alleged conlessiou. many of wh in v.vre imp: isnn- • ! and tortured months I fore tli-.-y consented to sign statements admitting writing political ivports for a Br:i i l> naval official. Payee, to whom liny were transmitl-d ihr. ugh 'f ho Finuisli Consulate. Tha Cli -ka's tortures have driven many if tin* prisoners insane. Ollier-, believing the in qni-iil rs' prc-niiscs of LuF-ucy. often sign do' rincuts which later prove their death warrants. A Dutchman. Iluyer. i:. the Bolshevists’ .star witness. He formerly was a. Tsarist officer. He alleges Boyce, forwarded funds to blow up several destroyers in the Soviet's Baltic Fleet. The testimony of other witnesses was equally ridiculous. Persons attending .the trial remark on the prisoners' white faces and cowed demeanour.

HI GH ELECTRIC SCHEME LONDON, Sept. 9lfow u chain of lattice and steel ina.sts 80 feet high, a quarter of a mile apart, connected by cables, and forming n network over the country, will convey cheap electricity to homos and factories, under the Government s £259,C00,000 scheme, is disclosed by the Daily Mail, which describes it as the greatest public utility service conceived in the present century. .London will feed, in addition to itself the area from Peterborough to Southampton. The masts lines and transformers alone will cost seven millions. The standardisation and inter-connection of the power houses will mean a reduction of London’s seventy stations to ton. Chiswick one of the throe main units, will have 325,090 kilowatts installed, and capacity for the storage of 130,000 tons of coal, which is sufficient for two months’ full pressure working. The other two will he erected at Barking and Battersea. Current will be ffistriIxited at a pressure of 132,000 volts.

POLAND’S PEACE PROPOSALS. TV KITTLED DOWN BY BIG POWERS. GENEVA, Sept. S. The labour of the mountain has brought forth a mouse. The Poles have accepted a whittled down peace pact forimii’a that is acceptable to Sir A. Chamberlain. M. Briand and Herr Stresemami. Tho excitement has lasted for two days, but has now passed. However, the Dutch Protocol proposition is still to lie tackled. NOTABLE DEAD. VANCOUVER. Sept. 0. Obituary—Sir William Glyn Jones, British pharmaceutist and lawyer and secretary of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, ageil 58.