GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(Hy Telegraph—Per Press Association.*

ARGENTINE MEAT WAR. LONDON, Nov. 16. Asked what steps the Board of Trade had taken to prevent a general rise in the price of imported meat when the Argentine meat war ended, Sir P. Cunliffe Lister, said the Food Council was closely watching the situation. It had interviewed representatives of Argentine chilled meat importers, who were generally of the opinion that retail prices would not be increased. A PAINFUL LONDON, Nov. 16. * There was a painful scene at the Durham Assizes, after John Thomas Dunn, miner, was found guilty cf the murder of his wife, whom, it is alleged, he strangled and then hung from pegs in the kitchen, ns thought sho had suicided. -.ni The Judge was putting on rue black cap, when Dunn, whose children had given evidence, cried out: “It is time the law was altered. It has been said that a little child shall lead us, but to-day a little child has condemned me. Christ said, ‘Father, forgive them.” I forgive my children, because they do not know what they do. Cod help me.” The Judge the npronuneed the sentence of death, while many in Court sobbed. One of Dunn’s little hoys ran out into the street screaming: “My father is going to be hanged.” ARCOS PREMISES. LONDON, Nov. 16. At auction, Arcos premises property was withdrawn at £190,000. REPORTS DENIED. MOSCOW, Nov. 16. Reports that Trotsky was assassinated after expulsion, are groundless, also the statement that he and Zinov'ieff vere .irresred Both are atr liberty.