GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

TIN STOCKS. LONDON, Jan. 3. % Tin stocks are :—14,8(52 tons ; spot ' 1(87 ; afloat 1942 ; deliveries 2992. FEDERAL SHIPS SALE. (Received this day at 12.25 p.in.) LONDON, Jan. 3. Conditions in tendering for the Commonwealth Line include that the tenderers must provide a satisfactory guarantee that they will maintain the vessels on the British register and con- 1 duct a service equal to the present, for a period of ten years, making at least eighteen round voyages per year. Preference will lie given to offers containing proposals for safeguarding Australian exporters and imporetrs refreight rates. Shipping circles ■/ consider the insistence on the maintenBf anee of a service for ten years may dobar possible tenderers, as they are un- ■ likely to bind themselves down for such a long period to maintain a service which may result in a loss.

BANK DIVIDEND. LONDON, Jan. 3. The Union Bank of Australia has declared an interim dividend of 15 po: cent, tax free. i SOVIET ACTION. MOSCOW, Jan. 3. As a New Year sequel to their ex pulsion from the Communist Party, Trotsky, Zinovieff, Kntneneff, Rakovsky, and comrades are in humiliation, all having been deprived of official posts, likewise Cominissaire of Post and Telegraphs, Sminoff, who is now operating a factory lathe, and Beloborodoff, who signed the order for the 'Tsar’s execution. LITHUANIAN DISPUTE. LONDON, Jan. 3. A Kovno telegram reports that a

„ Lithuanian court martial sentenced to / death a man and woman on a charge of espionage on belialf of Poland, and also sentenced two women and a man to imprisonment ranging from two to eight years, for complicity. The “ Morning Post’s ” Warsaw correspondent says that events are showing that Sir Austen Chamberlain was correct in describing the compromise between Poland and Lithuania, as only a step towards the solution. Valdemnra’s public utterances are becoming less conciliatory. He declares it is for Poland to make proposals. These apparently must be territorial concessions, or a change of status of Vilna. Poland, however, reports the frontier i--, as settled once and for all. A “ Under the circumstances,” says ’ the correspondent, ‘‘no speedy solution of the dispute is anticipated here.”

NEW LANDING CARRIAGE. LONDON,, Jan, 3. Bert Hinkler has patented a new type of landing carriage, which the “Daily Telegraph’s” aviation correspondent is of the opinion is likely to he a boon to private owners of light aeroplanes. MISSING GRAYSON PLANE. NEW YORK, Jan. 2. The captain and six members of the crew of the British fishing schooner llose Anne Bellcvcau arrived at Portland, Maine, and reported that they a whirr of an aeroplane motor, by a splash in the water, oil' Nausett Beach, Massachusetts, at 8 o’clock on the night of December 23rd. This is believed to have been the missing Grayson plane. The schooner was unable to render assistance because heavy seas were running, and having no radio aboard. B the crew could not inform two stcamers a few miles ahead. *** AIR LINER’S MISHAP CAIRO. Jan. 1. An Imperial Airways liner, travelling from Baghdad to Cairo, has bleu missing since Thursday, when a. wire-, less message from the machine stated that the petrol supply was exhausted, but a safe landing had been made. A search party found it sixty miles from Tuban. The passengers, including a woman, were nlll well, and taken to Baghdad by the relieving machine.

FRIENDLY ARABS AID. BAGHDAD, Jan. 1. Shortly after the departure of seven Air Force machine to seek the missing air liner, Captain Warner, flying an Airways machine, who had searched all night, wirelessed that he had found the liner surrounded by Arabs, proffering assistance. Warner supplied the air liner with petrol, the lack of which had cause the descent, enabling it to reach Tutbali. AAainoi is conveying the passengers and mails to Baghdad. It was disclosed that the air liner’s wireless was working well, but tbe messages were not heard because they wre jammed by the multiplicity of i messages from neighbourhood stations J and machines engaged in the search. DEATH ROLL OF COLD. NEW YORK, Jan. 3. The list of dentlis due to the intense cold of the last few days throughout United States, as far as is definitely known, has reached 72 and the total is expected to rso after the re-estab-lishment of disrupted communication. At least 150 persons were injured in railway wrecks due to the sforin, principally about Chicago. Great suffering is felt in the south in the cities unequipped to fight the unusual cold. Charitable institutions are taxed throughout the country. The cold is expected to continue for another 24 , hours. LINDBERGH'S FLY. TEGUEIGALPA (Honduras) Jan. 3 Lindbergh arrived to-day from San Salvador. HUDSON’S ATTEMPT FAILS. LONDON, Jan. 3. Hudson gave up the attempt to swim the Straits of Gibraltar, four and a-half miles from Tnrifa, after swimming for eight and a-half hours. V WHOLESALE ROBBERY. NEW YORK, Jan. 2. Thirty-two shops in the principal j thoroughfare of the City of Galesburg. ' Illinois, were broken into and robbed last night. Every variety of establishment was entered and all kinds ot

goods removed. A week ago, twelve shops were burglarised and the following night lour more. All were believed to be the work of one band. No arrests have been made. DEATHS FROM ALCOHOLISM. NEW YORK. Jan. 2. Six persons died from alcoholism and poison boo/.e on New A ear’s eve. One committed suicide in a drunken frenzy and three were killed in drunken brawls. NEWS OFFICE BOM BED. NEW YORK. Jnn. 2. Three persons were injured and much damage done to property when the office of the Scranton, Pennsylvania, afternoon newspaper “Sun” was bombed, as n result of a campaign conducted by that journal against the criminal elements in the city. The New Year was just being rung in and large crowds in the streets adjacent, were showered with glass and debris. The detonation damaged many buildings besides the "Sun” plant,