GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 20 December 1927, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) BRITISH-1 RAQ TREATY. ’ CAIRO, Dec. I!). The Anglo-lraq treaty consists o! sixteen articles, of which the following is it summary:—His Brittanic Majesty recognises Iraq as an independent sovereign state. Peace and Friendship will exist, between Anglo-lraq Majesties. The contracting parties engage to maintain friendly relations, each doing their utmost to prevent all illegal actions on their country, calculated to have repercussions upon peace and order in the other country. Britain undertakes to support Iraq’s candidature lor the League in 1932, provided the present level of progress is maintained and things go well meantime. X.S.W. LOAN. LONDON, Dec. 19. It is expected the underwriters will be saddled with a fair proportion of the New South M’alcs loan.

IN THE COMMONS. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) • LONDON, Dec. 111. In the Commons Mr Baldwin, replying to a questioner, said the Government had signed a new treaty with Iraq and there would he an opportunity for a debate before ratification. Mr Mitchell Thomson, in answer to a question, said lie had wanted the Dominions and Indian Governments to nominate representatives for a conference' as soon as practicable to consider the question of cables and wireless. Mr Wedgewood asked—ls the object to avoid competition and keep up prices or to secure competition to keep them down ?

Mr Mitchell Thompson—The object is to consider the question of vital interests to the Governments concerned. Mr Nicholson asked—Will wireless companies he invited? Mr Mitchell Thomson—lt will ho a conference of Governments.

Sir Samuel Home in reply to a question. said in discussions with a view to making the Schneider Cup biennial instead of annual, he undertook that Britain would compete. She intended to spare no efforts to retain the Cup. Work was proceeding in development of machines and engines with this object.

Cl I UROHMAN’S V I EM'S. LONDON. Dec. 19. I consider the time has come for

;i definite split between Anglo-Catlm-lics and Evanglieals,” says Sir ,1 Hicks, irs a statement to the “Daily News.” Both views cannot exist in the same church. They want union with Rome and we want reunion. Non-Conformists and Angln-Catholies yearly lean nearer Rome and indulge in more and more illegal practices. Parliament has now said they have gone far enough. Evangelicals have been making room for AngloCatholics l»y quitting their churches. The new Prayer Book has made England wake up. If a disloyal clergy adopt illegal practices, and teach illegal doctrines they cannot honestly take stipends from the Church they are defying. They must decide for or against Rome. II the former they must leave the Established Church. A compromise regarding commission services is inconceivable. Anglo-Cnth-olics want disestablishment in order to have a free, hand to corrupt Church doctrine. They can get easier and quicker freedom by ehoos’iig another Church. Meanwhile they must be required to respect ordination vows.

WILY CHEMIST TRICKED. CAIRO, Dec. 9. The over-ingenuity of the originators of a self-planned get-rich-quick scheme has resulted in an arrest in connection with the drug traffic of which Cairo and Alexandria have for a long time been liot-licds. The police seized some suspicious drugs and transmitted them to the Public Prosecutor, who dispatched them to the chief chemist with a view to analysis and in order to sheet home a conviction. Suspicion led to the laying of a trap as the result of which the chemist was charged with accepting bribes from drug traffickers to substitute harmless drugs for heroin. Thereby lie had procured false evidence which had resulted in the traffickers’ acquittal.

FOUR YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT. LONDON, Dec. 9. A youth, who in 1925 assisted a widow who was stranded in India after a nervous breakdown, when she was without friends and penniless, to-day was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for blackmailing her. According to counsel, Mrs Jessie Taylor bad a sudden illness while she was touring India. Then she met Hubert White Barrett, who showed her many kindnesses, paying her expenses and arranging her passage to England. Barrett, in 1920, stayed at Airs Taylor’s Scottish home, when she advanced him £3OO and later £l7O. Subsequently Barrett wrote to her, demanding £OOO in order to emigrate to Australia, otherwise he would write to her friends denouncing her character. Barrett, from the dock, said that be was utterly ashamed of his action, and that Mrs Taylor bad always bad a .splendid character. “You tried to ruin this woman’s character by a diabolical lie,” said the judge to Barrett. “Heaven help her if she had yielded to your horrible pressure, because once the blackmailer gets bis teeth in. there’s an end to the matter. Fortunately she was proud of her virtue and went- straight to the police.”

EXCHANGES. LONDON, Dec. 19. Brussels 3190; Paris 12,100; Stockholm 1807); Oslo 183-1; Copenhagen 1790; Berlin 20-13; Rome 8984 ; Calcutta IS 3-32; Yokohama 22 1-0; Hong Kong 21J ; Montreal -188); New York 488 1-32 ; Amsterdam 1207) ; Batavia 1208) ; Prague 104). SIR J. PARR. LONDON, Dec. 19. Sir James Parr inspected the Australian Hostel Market at Harborough. He was impressed b.v the types oi training but in lus opinion the period was too short. Nevertheless, New Zealand was finding it increasingly difficult to recruit domestics, in the face of Canadian and Australian competition, owing to which New Zealand figures declined to one-half.

SOVIET RUSSIA. MOSCOW, Dee. 12. Oppositionists, including ZinoziefF and Kameneff, have sent a declaration of entire submission to the Communist party’s demands and requesting re-ad-mission. They have been informed that their eases will be considered individually. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK. Dec. 19 : Chicago wheat— December 127'J. Afarch 129). AI ay 131).