GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(Hr Telegraph—Per Press Association.!: I DANCER AAY A R BED ‘ LONDON. Dec. 23. j The “Westminster Gazette’s” Paris correspondent says that because She was too modest to appear undressed in a Paris music hall. Aline, jtorangys \ broke her contract with the manage- j menl and .successfully sued for £3O j damages. | Aline. Alorangvs gave evidence that* she also felt cold and that her bus- * band objected. i The three judges considered that { modesty ought to have prevented Tier i from signing the contract. They j thought that her husband must Ikvve/' known that nowadays only the. scanty clothing was worn in thc^^HHß 1928 POSSIBILITIES. PARIS, Dec." 30. ■ Il is my fervent conviction 1928 will he marked hy a solemn pact between France and America outlaw- j ing wav. said AL Briand in an inter- — 1 view. Al. Briand did not disguise the importance attached to the proposed pact. He expressed the opinion :»Jhat if it succeeded it would he the powerful instrument for peace in the world eventually extending and embracing other nations. A Polish-Lith-uanian conflict was avoided , because of the spirit of conciliation shown. He was convinced that 1928 would see new stops in the development of the international spirit and the application of arbitration in the organisaton i of peace.

- SCHOOLBOYS TOUR... LONDON, ’ Dee. 30. Fortv-threc public schoolboys started a three months tour of South Africa under the auspices of the Empire tour committee. 1-ord Eusfejje; Percy in a farewell, said he hopeflj the tour would be followed by a series of visits to various parts of the f.mpiro, and road the Prince of AAhjle’s farewell message, saying:-“The joys are very fortunate at the outset* of their careers, in having the opportunity of gaining first hand knowledge of one of our great Dominions, with its boundless resources.

ZOUBKOFF’S CONDITION. • PARIS, Dec. 30. j It is reported from Berlin that i Zoubkoff, cabled on sth December, was so seriously injured that lie will be an invalid for the rest of his life. ’ FOOT AND MOUTH DISEAWr'" LONDON, Do |3O. , ; • Tt is estimated that £27.Sc: j ling compensation has been incukEßu. ; in the present foot and mouth slaughtering, bringing the year’s to- 1 tail to £IOI.OOO. As the result of a | further spread in Nottinghamshire, \ the Alinistry has ordered the destruction of Colonel Birkin’s pedigree herd of Eriesans, Guernseys, and Shorthorns, which took eleven years to build up. Special precautions are being taken to protect the Prince of , AA'alcs’s ])cdigreo stock at Lenton ■ farm, six miles distant. The “Times” points out that though the position f is serious, only sixty-tour outbreaks have occurred in Britain compared with sixteen thousand on the Conti- 5

XEAY YEAR’S EYE IN LONDON, Jan. The New Year was heralded with .1 unusual quietude in the heart of the Empire, and owing to the wretched > weather, snow, sleet and rain prev,oiling throughout London, probably the smallest crowd on record gathered outside St. Raul’s to hear the great J hell strike midnight. Underground j railways, omnibuses and tramways were j prepared to cope with a rush, but a j snowfall early in tin* evening -kept j many by their borne fireside, content i to listen to the universal New A’ear j greetings bv wireless. 1

The temperature rose slightly, which turned the snow into slush, and then j the frost returned. The official fore- I east is for slightly milder weather, hut a continuation of night frosts. One of the most notable celebrations I was the midnight service at York Minster. which took the form of'a thanks- ! giving for thirteen hundred years of Christianity on that hallowed spot. The Archbishop unveiled a stone, inscrilted, “(127—1927. Deo Gratia.” Groups of English-speaking foreigners staged a faked religious meeting in the neighbourhood of St. Paul’s,' to make a mockery of tin- watch-night services, held throughout the country. Those • scenes of hooliganism .were re- , q sen ted. and in one instance the police interviewed and took the ringleader to j the police station.

REDS IN CM UNA. RUGBY, Dec. 28. The British warshrip Seraph has rescued from Sw.-.bue, near Swatow, a party of three Roman Catholic priests and seven nuns who were being he; 1 I prisoners by Communists. One of the priests. Father Wong, who was a Chinese hut a British subject horn in HongKong. was under sentence of death and awaiting execution. They had been charged by the Communists with preaching Christianity. A Chinese convert from Swabue arrived at llong-Kong on December 26 and reported to Bishop Vultorta the plight of the missionaries. The Bishop reported to Admiral 'TynvhTtt J T'tA««4-mander-in-Chief on the China Station, who ordered the destroyer Seraph to the rescue. The Seraph, which carried on hoard Bishop Valtorta. arrived at: Swabue at dawn yesterday and the rescue party, led by Commander Wilmot Sitwell, put olf in a motor-bout and a whaler.

A letter from the Bishop was despatched to the Chief of Police. A reply was received that since Father / Wong was a Chinese lie must he dealt m with under Chinese law. A seconJß esc demanding specially the surren^^H .subject he would be handed * . JEWISH RABBI’S f LONDON. Jan. 3f" ! Preaching in the Liberal Synagogue ’ London, Rabbi 'Matured, denied j Jews to-day arc hostile to Jesus. They-’ J do not feel the necessity of exuiierat- f ing the Jews for the crucifixion. The, Jews then loved Him as a possible . King and the pri, sts hated Him because He was a dangerous rival, and at the Romans crucified-Him as a possiblqSlj supplanfer, yet the*Jews for centuries suffered the”crime of a hoa/*, L’nless the*Christian's of to-day JioweiF, i Christ’s spirit to the Jews they cou* *", not exjiect the Jews to admin- Jesus,i who was a great Jew. --7 DEVOURED Jroj-VF-RIGA. Jan. 2. I A pack of starving wolves pursued a : woman accompanied by her baby dri\- , ing a sledge. She drove desperately,’v but nearing a v;:i;;the horse collapsed. Cries brought out peasants, but not in time to prevent the wolves tear--ing the baby from her arras and tie-; I vouring it before the mother s eyes and badly mauling the woman.