GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

vßy Telegraph—Per Press Association.

SOUTH ATLANTIC AIR. SERVICE. PARIS, Nov. 10. The Chninlier’s finance Committee agreed to subsidise the La Tococre Company to the extent of a million sterling to establish an air service between fiance and South America. LANCASTER. AT BASIA. BAS lA. Nov. 10. Lancaster arrived from Cr. where lie was delayed two days. He will wait ten days in Russia for a new magneto. SKA A lE.VS UNION CONFERENCE. LONDON, Nov. TO. The annual conference of the Seamen’s Union carried a resolution of confidence in Havelock 'Wilson, approved the expulsion of officials ol number of branches, and suggested .substantial subscriptions from the union, as a testimonial to Wilson. The matter was discussed privately. POACHER’S TRIAL. LONDON. Nov. 11. The Jury returned a verdict rt manslaughter at the trial of I)ix. a poacher, accused of fatally shooting the gamekeeper. Walker, on a peer’s estate near Bristol. The Judge said he did not wish to criticise the finding, hut he was totally unable to agree with it. Sentence was deferred. Dix’s defence was that the underkeeper with Walker, fired first at him '(l)ix) who was hit, and the gun. clenched in his hand, was discharged automatically killing Walker. Elaborate plans and experimental targets were prepared fur the jury, counsel on both sides demonstrating their respective theories.

FRENCH DIVORCE. MILL. LONDON. Nov. 9

Afillionaire’s. film stars and other American notabilities, who have taken advantage of the Paris divorce mill, at the rate of twelve weekly. will find that method of solving matrimonial troubles closed henceforth. The Court of Cassation decided that no I'Ve noli Court shall have jurisdiction in divorce cases, where the courts of the country, in which parties are properly domiciled, are competent to act. ft, also means the end of big Ices for French lawyers, amounting sometimes to C 20.000. SUICIDE. LONDON, Nov. 10. A former asylum inmate Larnett, a celebrated litigant who success! idly fought it series of cases with distinction hut lost on appeal, was found drowned in the Poplar Docks. The final judgment was pronounced by the House of Lords in July 27. POPPY DAY IN BRITAIN. LONDON, Nov. 10. Haig in an article says: Poppyland in six years realised C 1,749.000: last year £435,000 and to-morrow he hopes it will realise half a million sterling. Nearly thirty million poppies are available. Greater oversea co-o]>era-Tion is promised. The funds up to now have settled 447 men. 337 women, and 873 children in the Dominion, besides relieving two million cases of distress in Britain, at a cost of over seven hundred thousand. There are still six hundred thousand ex-officers and men unemployed. The Prince of Wales broadcasted a poppy day appeal in which he asked buyers of poppies to give a, little more than before, even a little more than they can afford, so that'the fund may reach half a million sterling.

SIR A. AtOND’S SCHEAI E. LONDON. Nov. 9

Surely the race which performed miracles of organisation in time of AYar, is able to reorganise the Empire as an economic unit said Sir Alftcd Aloud, addressing the Canadian Chamfer of Commerce.

The problem is urgent, if the Empire is going to continue. The world is tending to group American and European Economic complexes. Tf Britain joins the European Customs’ Union, Canada is likely to join the American complex, and Australia is equal v likely to participate in the Pacific Ocean complex, resulting in the destruction of the Empire fabric which has taken centuries to build up. The Empire economic unity declared Sir Alfred Afoml depended upon the exchange of British, manufactures for overseas Empire raw materials.

IRISH POLITICS. tUeceivud this day at 8 a.in.) LONDON, Nov. It. In the Dail, Do Valera’s Bill tor the repeal of the Public Saletv Act was defeated by 77 to 71, but Cosgrove agreed the bill should lapse next Alarcli. A PRISONER’S RELEASE. LONDON, Nov. 10.

A section of the Press here and many prominent men have long sought the release of (Near Slater.

'I be German Foreign Office points out that it cannot take up Slater’s case till he applies for repatriation. He forfeited Ids German citizenship by going to live in Scotland t.i avoid con-

scription. “Slater's release is only Ibe beginning of tilings.’’ .says Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, wlm lias fought ceaselessly for Slater’s vindication. Sir Arthur adds: “Slater is now an old broken man, and no effort must be spared to ensure that bis sufferings are productive of some good. I Ids is the greatest police scandal of modern times. It is evident that the judicial authorities made the gravest of mistakes .Anyone "ho happened to be walking in the Glasgow streets at the same time as Slater might be found guilty.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is now framing a petition to Parliament for full inquiry into Slater’s arrest and trial, urging that he be compensated.

The release is the result of a message Slater sent to Sir Conan Doyle, written on a piece of paper, wrapped in glazed people, and hidden in a hollow tooth of a prisoner discharged from Peterhead Prison in 1020. BANDITS HAI L. LONDON. Nov. 10.

The " Evening News ’’ Baris corre I spondent reports that Chalfeur ltoyalt stole a motor ear at Casablanca and drove to Tetuan, picking up on route two accomplices. The police attempted to intercept them and a fierce battle followed, in which three police were shot dead and four wounded. The desperadoes then systematically visited jewellers’ shop in Tetuan, and stole gems worth £20.01K) and escaped. The police armed with machine guns pursued the robbers and another light took place on the Franco-Moroccan border, lasting two hours, in which all three bandits were seriously wounded. The missing gems were discovered in the ear.

TERR LXGTON FR AUDS. LONDON. Nov. 12. Astonishing details of the alleged Tcrrington frauds, cabled on 28th Julv, are revealed in a lawsuit in which Sir Harold Reckitt is seeking to recover from a motor firm £2OO that Terrington paid out of Reekitt’s account. Reckitt gave evidence that when he was recalled from India, Terrington'. whom he had known since his boyhood, and

who had been acting as his attorney, admitted he had drawn £47,000, though Reekitt later found more than a quarter of a million had gone. The case was adjourned.

DOOLEY CHANGES RELIGION f.ON DON. Nov. 11

Dooley was received into the Catholic Church. There is a piquancy in connection with the news, as at the height of his success he presented to St. Paul’s Cathedral £3.000 sterling and a set of gold plate, which was handed to his creditors when Dooley became hanknipt.