GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(Dy Telegraph—Per Press Association.' AN ESTATE. LONDON, Dec. 11. Professor Liversidge, formerly of Sydney University, who died in England, left an estate valued at £40,128 sterling. Amongst his liequests are two thousand sterling for Sydney University l/> found a scholarship, live hundred each to University and Royal Society for the advancement of Science. A HOSTEL. LONDON, Dec. 11. A twenty-roomed Georgian mansion house at Market Harborough. in which girls being sent to Australia are trained for household work, was opened by the Duchess of York. The girls will lie trained for six to ten weeks under as near as Australian’ conditions. The bouse accommodates forty and is fully booked up for months ahead Sir J. Parr v ill inspect the hostel on behalf of the New Zealand Government on the 14th. WOMEN NAVVIES. LONDON, Dec. 11. Girl navvies, whose strength exceeds the average man’s, are discussed in the Industrial Research Board’s report, which states that forty residing in one of Glasgow’s worst neighbourhoods. worked bare-footed in a chemical factory from six in tile morning to six in the evening being allowed two hours for meal. They showed remarkable health, carriage and physique One shovelled from 20 to 3o tops of borite daily.

Some women in the Midland brick works wheeled from 4 to 4V cwt- harrow loads from 70 to 80 yards all day long. . . The women in the tinplate mdustiy were of better physique than the youths. Round shoulders and hollow chests are unknown. They are also steadier workers. Their average weight is 110 pounds, height sixty-two inches, pull 183 pounds and grip 58 pounds.

REVISED PRAYER. BOOK. LONDON, Dec. 11. An amendment to bo moved by Earl Stanhope, urges that the revised praver book he not accepted until accompanied by a measure ensuring order and discipline in public worship. The Rev. Alfred Garvie, Principal of New College, Hampstead, and a former President of the National Free Church Council, in a letter to the Times, says:

Alt lie ugh deploring the conjunction of free churches generally with the disorder into which the church has drifted, he expresses regret that some changes in the prayer book can lie interpreted as sanctioning the Anglo-Catholic® tendency to Rome; also believing that Free Churchmen must as citizens, see that the Church's Protestant character is maintained. I disapprove of hostile action by Parliament, in view of the assurance of the Archbishop of Canterbury, as to the Bishop’s intentions If the prayer hook is faithfully administered there is a prospect of better conditions, and on the contrary, if an ineffective church is faced with this serious responsibility, non-conformists will lie justified in claiming that disestablishment is necessary to prevent reorganising the National Church. LONDON, Dec. 12. The debate on the revised prayer book opens in the Lords to-morrow, and a division must be taken on Wednesday evening. The Peers must either approve or reject it. They have no power to amend the book. If the Lords reject it there will lie no debate in the Commons.

The “ Daily Express ” says many Peers and Commoners are of opinion that this is the most important parliamentary struggle concerning doctrinal principles of the church since the Re-® formation. Churchmen and non-con-formists belonging to'Dio three parties and even Cabinet itself are divided on the subject. If the hook is rejected, a crisis between Church and State is inevitable, but favourable majorities are anticipated in both Houses. Tb.e “Daily Herald” says there has been a busy whipping up of Peers for the division. There will probably he the largest attendance since the days when the backwoodsmen mustered to fight Lloyd George’s peoples’ budget. BURIED ALIVE FOR FIVE DAYS. BERLIN, Dec. 11. Toklia, the Dusseldorfer, was dug up on Saturday night, in the presence of five thousand people. He said lie was suffering from nothing worse than a severe headache, and had lost 231bs. as j—the result of being -buried for five He apparently went into a kind of

trance, in which the nice quivered and foam formed on the lips. The case will he subjected to most careful investigation. FIVE PERSONS ELECTROCUTED PARIS. Dec. 12. Mrs Bruce maintained eighty mil s an hour for nine hours spell, while her husband slept. They had a dramatic escape while driving in a thick fog. Twice the car nearly went off the track, but Mrs Bruce gave the steering wheel a wrench and the car careered on two wheels on to the course 'j again. Elsewhere in Paris, a motor ear colliding with a telephone post resulted in five deaths. One motorist was killed. The telephone post fell, bearing with it live electric wires, which lay across the car. A number of people rushed to render aid to the occupants and when they touched the wires they were electrocuted.

SOVIET TRIALS. [“ The Times ” Service.] (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 12. A Riga correspondent reports the trial of twenty officials in the Grain Department, State Bank and other economic organisations, has revived dormant crime of the economic counter revolution involving tbe deatli penalty, circumventing the abolition of capital punishment. The prisoners are apparently scapegoats of the Soviet’s campaign against famine, and it necessi-»i. tates the afflicting of huge areas* throughout the country. Queues of thousands awaiting, bread, flour and textiles are frequent in Moscow, resulting in tbe authorities promising the proletariat a series of trials to inspire _ officials to a sense of duty to the c-« public.

PEACE ITtfzE. OSLO, Dec. 12. The Peace Pryte was handed over in the presence of the King and Crown Prince. The President of the Committee said it was awarded to Buisson Guidde in recognition of his untiring efforts at the Franco-German rapproachment, leading to the Dawes scheme. Locarno and Germany’s admission to the League. AN ENGINEER’S VIEWS. LONDON, Dec. 12. Sir Charles Bright, consulting engineer. widely associated with cable organisations, in an interview, said fair, square competition between cable and radio communications would be of immense advantage to tbe Empire as a whole, as it would mean reduced rates, which were much needed to encourage inter-imperial trade.