GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Telegraph—Per Press Association.' PHOSPHATES. LONDON, Doc. 1. At a meeting of Unionists Agricultural Committee 150 Ceommoiicrs "ere appointed a deputation to urge the Government to utilise the agreed share of forty-two per cent, of phosphates from Nauru and Ocean Islands under the 1020 agreement. They suggested Britain, Australia and New Zealand should instruct the commissioners to ascertain the lowest f.o.b. price. It is calculated the annual output is a million tons. Commoner Harold Briggs, the organiser, states lie was amazed to discover that Britain took no share. Many British super phosphate manufacturers were relinquishing owing to lack of cheap material. Farmers needed cheaper fertiliser and Britain would he taking a share of the benefit from both. If manufacturers were not assisted they might internationally agree to regulate prices adversely to fawners.

BISHOP BARNES. LONDON. Dec. 2. Bishop Barnes has published a book, entitled: “Should Such a Faith Offend,” answering critics. He dissociates himself from the modernists of the left, typified by Roman Catholics, whom Pins X. crushed, and whose idea of divine imminence was virtually pantheism. “f need,” says Bishop Barnes, “a God who is our Father, rules the world and loves the world with a Father’s love.”

Bishop Barnes sets aside the synoptic Gospel accounts if incarnation, preferring the opening Gospel of St. John. Apropos of the Eucharist, he says: “As the result of consecration, no spiritual presence is attached to. or inheres in the elements. The root principle of idolatry is the belief that a deity is localised in material objects through the invocation of a priest.”

A RUMOUR. LONDON. Dec. 1. A rumour that Mussolini had been assassinated, originating in Vienna, was designed to cover specidalion in the lira. It spread rapidly through Europe stock exchanges, including London, and the lire temporarily sagged slightly. LIT HU AN IA N DT SPUTE. WARSAW, Dec. 1. A newspaper publishes an interview with Pilsudski, which is presumed to lie authentic in view of the Government control of the press, in which ho said: “When I received word that Lithuania was mobilising, T debated with myself all night whether Poland should mobilise and forestall the attack. Finally I decided to appeal to the League of Nations.” Pilsudski, who is himself ft Lithuanian, was horn in Vilna, is reported to have described Yaldemaras. the Lithuanian Premier, as a. “madman and an insane supor-patriot, who was first Russian, then erman, and finally Lithuanian, though only a few years.”

PIRACY OF BRITISH SHIP. HONG KONG. Dec. 2. A naval wireless from Hankow reports the daring piracy on the British ship Sinng Tan. Three of the ships company were killed while resisting. The captain. W. G. Maynard, was carried off, presumably for ransom. CABLE MARKET QUOTATIONS, LONDON. Dee. 2. Eastern and Associated Telegraph Coy’s announce in reply to many enquiries regarding fluctuations in the market quotation for cable stocks, that the position in relation to radio and cable service is under consideration T>etween Government and Eastern Coy. BURGLAR’S SUCCESS LONDON. Dee. 2. Surprising success attended a gang of burglars operating in London’s biggest stores at Barkers, Kensington. They were astonishingly aided by expert cat burglars', who visited each of the four floors using hose-pipes, found on the premises, as ropes. The haul consisted largely of jewellery, valued at three thousand sterling. ROUMANIAN NEWS PARIS, Doe. 2. Advices from Bucharest state Queen Marie has summoned an audience of heads of the Peasant Party, with a view to persuading oppositionist leaders to enter the Cabinet., under the Presidency of Prince Stirhey, who attempted to form a coalition just before King Ferdinand’s death. Tt is evident Queen Marie will he successful.