GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(Hv Telegraph—Per Press Association.^ AIR THOAfAS ASHTON. RUGBY, Oct. 14. A notable figure in tho Labour world has died in the person of Air Thomas Ashton, who was the first secretary of the Aimers’ Federation of Great Britain. lie was 83 years ot age. KAISER’S SISTER. LONDON, Oct. 16. The “Daily Mail’s” Berlin correspondent says tlrat the ex-Ivaiser’s sister, Princess Victoria SchaumburgLippe, a widow, aged 61 years, who is reputedly eccentric and wealthy, recently contracted a ballroom friendship with a Russian, Alonsieur Subow, aged 2(5. He at first dressed well and was flush of money, hut eventually he pawned his clothes and other property to subsist. Then he disappeared, after making a forlorn effort to restore his fortunes in cheap gaming clubs. Alonsieur Subow, however, returned in a fortnight, resplendently tailored and lie-jewelled, and he then began plunging heavily at the gaming tables. Tlie police, becoming suspicious made inquiries. 4ne.se have elicited the fact that AI. Subow is affianced to Princess Victoria, who insisted that he should dress and live in a style compatible with his position. The exIvaiser has consented to the marriage, which takes place in November.

GLASGOAV AIURDER. LONDON, Oct. 16. James McKay, aged forty-one, has been arrested at Glasgow and charged with the murder of his mother. Airs Arbuekle. The police visited the house occupied by her, and found missing portions of the body. [Note. —A previous cable stated that portions of a woman’s body, cut up, were found by the side of the River Clyde, wrapped in a sheet.] A DRAUGHTS’ PRODIGY. LONDON, Oct. 16. A world’s draughts record has been established by Samuel Cohen, the 20-year-old English' champion, who played 104 games simultaneously, winning 71, drawing 31, and losing two. CREATION OF MAN. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 17... Bishop Barnes, in a striking sermon at St. Payl’s, made not the slightest reference to the scene. He discussed whether man’s creation was the result of blind mechanism or Divine design. He urged that scientific survey gives nothing to encourage us to repudiate tho lielief that man’s creation was divinely planned from the gorilla. Civilised man is tho product of the' same machinery, hut there has-been an unexpected variation in the case. Alan naturally thinks this variation is a stop in the Divine Plan. If Christians regard. God as contriving slowly to a maturing plan, whereby the human race has been brought into existence, modem science has no cogent argument against being convinced of the purpose of evolution as revealed in the moral and spiritual development of humanity. ;;

FLYING BOATS DEPART. (Received this dnv at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 17. Four Empire flying boats departed from Plymouth for Australia at nine in the morning. The sea. was smooth and it was raining. AIURDER, TRIAL. LONDON, Oct. 17. Coulter, accused of murdering the typist, Constance Oliver) in Richmond Park (cabled on the 6th), was committed for trial. LITHUANIAN COAIPLAINT. KOVNO, Oct. 17. Lithuania has lodged a complaint with the League Council alleging. Polish persecution of Lithuanians in the Vilna region, with the object of destroying Lithuanian independence. Lithuania requests a discussion of the matter at the Council’s next meeting. GERMAN CASTLE BURNT. BERLIN, Oct. 17. Baron Gravenreuth’s historic castle at Affing, near Augsburg, was destroyed by fire, causing five deaths and seriously injuring ton people. The outbreak started in an attic while the Baron was giving a hunting party. The damage is fifty thousand sterling.