GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

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SECRETARY FOR TREASURY

RUGBY, Nov. 1

]t is officially announced that Air Arthur Samuel Parliamentary Secretry to the Department of Overseas Trade, has been appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury, in the place of Air Roland McNeill who was recently promoted to a seat in Gain net, and will he elevated to the peerage. BRITISH ALUXICIPAL ELECTIONS. LONDON, Nov. 3. The following arc the gains and losses at the Municipal Elections: Labourites: One hundred and twelve (mins, twelve losses. “ Conservatives: Seven gains, seventyeight losses. Liberals: Thirteen gains, thirtythree losses. . Independents : Seventeen gains and twenty-six losses. Alost of the Independents opposed Labour. * The Daily Herald claims that Labour has now control of at least sixteen municipalities, including Birkenhead, Barslev, Leigh, Nelson and Swansea. Mr Ramsay AlacDonald states he was surprised by the magnificence of the victory. Labour would go steadily on and imperturbably to government. A LITERARY' SENSATION. LONDON, Nov. 3. A literary sensation has been caused by the publication of suppressed passages of Greville’ memoirs, which aroused Queen Victoria’s indignation, at the time of the original publication in 1874. The suppressed passages do not reflect upon Queen Victoria’s personal character, indeed, the purity of her life and Court gains by contrast? with the vices and meannesses of George the Fourth and AA’illiam the Fourth, whereon Greville is illuminating. Curious revelations concern the relations of the young Queen with her mother, the Duchess of Kent, who, Greville suggests. was a lover of Sir John Conroy, an Irish adventurer, who was Private Secretary to the Duchess. Victoria suspected her mother’s liason, which she regarded as a personal humiliation, and after her accession to the Throne there was an open break between the Queen and the Duchess owing to Sir John Conroy.

R ECO AI MEND ATI ONS OF THE COAI MISSION. GENEVA. Nov. 2.

At the Mandates’ Commission sitting Air Grimshaw, the International Labour Officer, in a statement, said that the Native Labour Commission had expressed the opinion that native labour should he paid for, and'only required for urgent necessary public works. Natives employed on important works in the general interest, should he compensated in accordance with local rates and should not he worked more than forty-eight hours weekly and sixty days yearly. The Labour Office proposed a detailed questionnaire for a draft convention, which may he discussed in 1930.

EARL KINNOULL ENGAGED. LONDON, Nov. 2. Earl Kinnoull announces his engage- -i. nient to Aliss May Alerrick. He says Ylie is opening a motor show room, and will “ make this my profession.” Airs Alerrick is known as the “ Night Club Queen ” and thus will become motlier-in-law to two peers, as her second daughter, Dorothy, married Lof# De Clifford.

A cable yesterday announced the Countess Kinnoull obtained a divorce on the ground of her husband’s misconduct. They were married in 1923^-

SALVATION ARMY. LONDON, Nov. 2. A “ Great Salvation Army Siege ” will begin on Saturday, and will last three weeks. It aims at breaking down the people’s indifference to religion. It will be preceded to-night by all-night prayer meetings in thousands of citadels throughout the country. A hundred thousand Salvationists will offer massed prayers for the country’s salvation, and many thousands of red-hot Gospellers will proclaim the message of redemption in the streets. The “ Army ” will go in mourning daily for a selected city or town, and do penance for its sins, and pray folks salvation. Processionists in such towns will wear sackcloth and funeral; black. Another feature will be a Bible;—day. when every Salvationist will carry a Bible and read it from the gutters. Invasions of enemy territory are planned, using tanks and armoured cars. Such “ territory ” includes public houses, where “drink parades” will be held.

PEARL SHELL INDUSTRY. LONDON, Nov. 3,

Doctor Yonge, who was recently ab the Biological Station at Plymouth, is engage din research in connection with pearlsholl of the Great Barrier Reef, with Eir Edgworth David, who is now voyaging homeward to Australia.

He states that this is most important. Unless Australia scientifically organises the pearlshell industry, there will be a danger of losing two hundred thousand sterling annually from the Barrier alone. It is also desirable t-o test the growing levant sponges on the Barrier Reef, as Australian sponges are inferior.

Sir Edgworth David, paying a tribute to Mr Edge, says he has been extraordinarily successful in Rhodesia in locating sulphide oro deposits at a depth of 200 feet. Sir Edgworth David. who has spent a great time with the Geophysical Research Committee in connection with the expedition, says the methods tried in Australia for locating deposits and oil include electric soismetie and torsion balance. Sir E. David is most optimistic regarding the electric method with which Mr Edge was successful in Rhodesia.

TRADE CONFERENCE. GENEVA, Nov. 3. The Trade Conference will probably close on Saturday. There is muck critcism on procedure and the manner in which articles of argument have been drafted by a few interested’ countries. with the result, that while many States at the opening were favourably disposed to a wide agreement, it is po»sible that signatures will now lie confined to a few smaller European Powers It is doubtful whether Britain will sign and it is certain none of the Dominions will.

A WARSAW STORY. WARSAW, Nov. 2. The German Communist delegation hound for the anniversary celebrations at Moscow, was held up on the RussoPolish border. The Soviet customs officers confiscated a large banner bearing Communistic inscriptions, because the delegates refused to pay customs duties.

BOTTOMLEY SEEKS MORE LITIGATION. LONDON, Nov. 2. Horatio Bottomley lias issued a series of writs against newspapers and writers of articles published in England and on the Continent, during his imprisonment. Bottomley alleges that attacks op hi« credit were largely fictitious