GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(Dy Telegraph—Per Press Association.)! ADVICE TO BOYS LONDON, Oct. 13. General Ryree (Australian High Commissioner) urged fifty departing “dreadnoughters” to get the ship’s barber to clip their hair before landing in Australia. He said: “They do not like to see boys" with long hair. Anyhow, Australia is no place for it. It also might prejudice your chances. You cannot drive sheep and brush your hair at once.” A TYPIST’S MURDER. LONDON, Oct. 12. There were amazing scenes when crowds totalling twenty-five thousand were present at the funeral of the murdered typiste, Constance Oliver, aged 21 (whose body was discovered in Richmond Park, she having (been strangled bv 'her oitiU.clothing, and there being evidence of a fierce struggle for life), with whose murder Sidney Coulter is charged. Beginning outside ti— girl’s home in Battersea foot and mounted police had to keep back a. huge crowd, hundreds of whom were unrestrainedly weeping, towards which the sight of the girl’s parents assisted. The mourning coach and hearse were covered with masses of flowers, especially symbolical broken lilies, sent from*’ all oyer London. Crowds lined the roads for two miles to the Alorden Cemetery, where there was an extraordinary rush at the Chapel doors. The police kept back screaming and weeping women, dozens of them losing their hats in the rush. At the Cemetery, tho usual spectacle of a roped off grave was to be seen. AY ben the coffin was lowered, the girl’s father collapsed, and he would have fallen into the grave but that friends caught and assisted him away.

WOMEN REFORMERS. LONDON, Oct 12. The so-called “Parliament of Women” have rejected the proposal, cabled on October 4tli. to concentrate on a single reform annually. LATEST “SAFETY” DEVICES. LONDON, Oct. 12. An array of amazing ideas is unfolded at the International of Inventions, providing for _ almost every contingency. There are two,hundred examples of safety invention. There is a safety razor worked by clockwork. A “safety first” walking stick is shown, which provides a light every time it strikes the gndund. There is a saucepan lid from which a bell rings at boiling,, povnt. A device fixed to a piano-sounding board converts it into a distortionless wireless loud-speaker. The pedestrians’ comfort while walking is considered hv means of a machine of complicated device—something like roller skates—which it is claimed has a speed of thirty miles an hour, taking from ten to fifteen steps. There is an electric floor polisher and a clockwork toaster-meter, by . which the toast is done to a light brown or a dark brown simply by setting a dial which, of course, also cuts off the current. There is a special non-circular motor steering wheel, designed for the comfort of fat men. A most optimistic idea is typified by cycles fitted with wings and a propellor worked by pedals to enable til© cyclists to fly over bad patches of road.

THE LATEST CARS. LONDON, Oet. 12. The motor show at Olympia is one of the year’s greatest events, to-day’s opening of the show being the leading story in every London newspaper. Tho largest manufacturer has arranged for the production of eighty thousand cars, valued at sixteen millions sterling. Ten of the manufacturers liave^already sold a year’s output. The total estimated sales are worth seventy millions. Australia, New Zealand and South African representatives have placed orders in the vicinity of fifteen millions sterling. England is exhibiting fortyfive models, France 22, America 17, Italy 8 and Belgium 3. Germany (whose first appearance this is since the war) has 2 exhibits. The pre-eminent mechanical features are the development of the light sixcylinder 2-litre to 3-litre class. No fewer than nine manufacturers are exhibiting new “sixes,” aimed at direct competition with America. LONDON, Oct. 12.

At the motor show incidentally five new “fours” were introduced by well known firms. Another feature was an apparent increase of the side-valve engines and four speed-gear boxes. Four-wheel brakes are universal, with a considerable variation in the methods of application. The coachwork shows a phenomenal advance. Fabric saloons preponderate, while saloons of all kinds have been responsible for reductions in last year's open car price.

AYAGE-CUTTING IN BRITAIN. LONDON, Oct. 12. Bradford’s Employers’ section of the AYool Council, explaining the termination of their agreement, declares that tbe depression is comparable to that of 1925. Since 1920, they state, 1921 firms have gone out of business, including 166,000 spindles, and 8,596 looms, and corresponding qantities of carding, spinning and finishing machinery. The list is continually increasing. It is pointed out that, while wages throughout the country have increased seventy-five per cent since tbe war, the wool workers’ wages have increased one hundred per cent., and tbe cost of production has increased 130 per cent., while, on the contrary, the Continental wages are half those of the British employees. The industry is retaining only seventy-three per cent of the wool supply compared with 93 per cent lieforc the war, despite the efficiency of the plants, a ceaseless search for markets, and an endless variety of products and styles.

SUDDEN SHARE DROP. LONDON, Oct. 13. There has been a wild fluctuation in the shares of British Oelanese. Ordinaries have slumped from 105 s to 82s Gd on a report that a Brussels Court has given another firm the right to use certain foreign patent rights. Tbe Company later stated that this decision did not affect them, but this statement was not made before the misunderstanding had knocked off twenty-five thousand pounds from-the value of the shares, which then 'fecovered to 955. The ordinary shares were only 6s at the beginning of the year, and they reached 125 s last week. The pound preference shares were 9s 3d in January, and they reached 355. They are now 31s, though neither the ordinary nor preference shares have thus far paid a dividend.

TEAM FOR THE CAPE. LONDON, Oct. 13. The “Daily Mail” state the Marylebone Club has sprung a surprise in the cricket world by selecting Captain Ronald T. fitanvforth to lead the. tourists in South Africa, in place of G. R. Jackson, who is prevented by illness. Though Stanyforth has been a successful Army batsman, and accompanied Warner to the Argentine, his name is unknown to most follow-, ers of first class cricket.