GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

v 2y Telegraph—Per Press Association.: HISTORIC MANSION DESTROYED. LONDON, Dec. 28. When called to Standoii Lordship, a historic Elizabethan mansion in Hertfordshire, dating to 1546, where the Duke of Wellington lived after the battle of Waterloo, the occupants were forced to watch it burn, the floors falling in stopping the servants’ efforts to save valuables.

PHILIP SNOWDEN RESIGNS, deceived this dav at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. Dec. 29

Philip Snowden has resigned membership of the Independent Labour Party to which he had belonged for thirty-four To a letter to tho Secretary he siiys: “1 he Labour Pnrtx since it permitted individual membership and adopted the Socialist basis, adequately fulfils the purposes for which the Independent Labour Party originally existed. The latter has served its. purpose and its continued existence is neither necessary nor useful, and in--*! volvcs a waste of money and effort.” SOCIALIST TAX. PARIS. Dec. 29. The Socialist Party planning tho electoral campaign decided to drop the capital levy in favour of a tax on acquired wealth, presumably on similar lines to the British Labourites surtax scheme. ITALY’S WHEAT. ROME, Dec. 29. Belluzzo, Minister of National Econov states there is every prospect ill a few years that Italy "ill he independent of all imports of wheat. There are eight thousand experimental stations, 7.50 stations equipped with scientific appliances and supplies of selected seeds, with the result that Italy’s wheat production could ho nearly doubled without increasing tho area of production.

1928 POSSIBILITIES. . (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). LONDON, Dec. 29. Possibilities of 1928 include wireless telephony to Australia. The date depends on the result of Marconi experiments, tho apparatus for which will not be completed till the results of the experiments with Canadian beam are known. It is understood the British post office within a few weeks will announce it has achieved a perfectly secret trans-Atlantic wireless telephony hy means of disintegration aiul “ turaing over ” sound waves at the transmitting point and piecing them together again at the receiving points.

-Meanwhile Franklin, Marconi’s righthand man, is giving special attention to the cause and remedy of fading out on the Australian beam, wliieh is nowlosing considerable traffic through twelve hours’ lading from the late afternoon. It is suspected this is due to .summertime radiation of heat from the sands of Australia’s arid hinterland. It is hoped Jo overcome this next summer.

LABOUR MEMBERS’ SALARY. LONDON, Dec. 29. Owing to the depression in the coalfields, miners’ members of Parliament have agreed to a reduction of £SO sterling from the allowances made by the Miners’ Federation. Thus their parliamentary salary, plus allowance, is now £6OO. BYRD’S STEAMER. OSLO, Dec. 28. Byrd has' purchased the steamer Samson of 278 tons in preparation for lus South Polar flight. GEORGES CARPENTIER. PARIS, Dec. 28. arpentier is abandoning the title of + heavyweight champion of France. The defence of the title interferes with his theatrical engagements.

A DICTIONARY. LONDON, Dec. 28. Oxford University Press hopes to publish in March the final volume of Oxford English Dictionary, the world’s largest. Inaugurated in 1858 the first volume was published in 1881. Incomplete work costs £42 and contains fifteen thousand pages and two million quotations. It defines four hundred thousand words. AVOLVES IN AUSTRIA. BUDAPEST. Dec. 28. The severity of winter has driven pucks of wolves to Hungarian villages. Some penetrated to the capital. One was shot in the heart of the city. FROZEN TO POST. GENEVA. Dec. 28. A gamekeeper, Kister, left an inn at Basle in the early hours and clung to a lamp-post to which he beta me frozen. He was released with difficulty at daylight m agony.

GLOZEL FRAUDS. LONDON, Dec. 28. A Paris correspondent states M. Dussard demands a judicial inquiry into the Glozel discoveries. He accuses Emile Fradin, son of a farmer who owns the site of the finds, of fraud. Dussard states the director of St. Germain Museum is preparing an independent report showing the hulk of the finds were manufactured stones, carved with a steel instrument.