GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.: WINDFALL FOR IRISH FAMILY LONDON, (.Jan. G. One daughter and two sons of Mrs Yeage, a resident of Cross Rathfryland County Dawn, at present in Sydney, benefit under the United States Supreme Court decision in the Jefferson Doyle estate, which is partly in favour of the Vcage family. Aeording to a Dublin despatch they still own the house where Doyle’s father. John, was apprenticed to weaving by hand loom whence he crossed the Atlantic. The estate is estimated at £OO.OOO. Ii! addition to the property expected, Mrs Yeage and her eight sons and daughter receive from four to five thousand apiece. EXPLOSION CATASTROPHE. BERLIN, Jan. 5. The City House explosion came without warning. A flame shot up twenty feet, and in a moment, the sleepers on the various floors were engulfed, beds and all, in thirty feet of debris on the ground floor.

Twelve dead are already recovered, am! at least four are. still buried The search continues with tho aid of searchlights. Twenty are seriously injured. Tt is a miracle that anyone escaped, as sonic masses of debris were hurled a, quarter of a mile. The rescue work was a task of extreme danger, as crumbling masonry was continually crashing down. ’ The police and firemen were very plucky, and several were injured. Tho building was a big concrete tenement, occupied by 99 persons, belonging to 28 families.

Just before the catastrophe, thirty gne-st who were merry making at a birthday party, left the building, but the host and hostess were killed. A tiny dog Was heard whining in the darkness. The firemen sawed through a. heavy beam and saved the dog. Their .actylene lamps revealed the dog’s master hanging head downwards among the bricks and mortar, w-lience ho had fallen from the upper floor. He asked the firemen to first extricate his wife, but the firemen found that she was dead.

FIFTEEN DEAD. BERLIN, Jan. 5. The latest explosion-fire death roll is fifteen, and one missing.

COULTER EXECUTED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. (i. Coulter has been executed. CHASING BUTTERKLIES. «. LISBON, Jan. 5. The ex-lving Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, has cancelled the year’s engagements, and sidled for South America, equipped with a butterfly net. He will also search for three new types of birds in the backwoods of Brazil. . GRAND JURY’S PROPOSAL. LONDON. Jan. G. The Grand Jury at Birmingham carried a resolution expressing the opinion that convictions recorded against soldiers and sailors killed in the Great War should be erased. The Recorder, Sir Henry Maddoeks, said the idea a plica led to him as a common justice. It might also be urged that living cxservico men should receive similar treatment. A free pardon did not remove the record, which needed an Act of Parliament.

KING ALBERT’S THRILL. LONDON. Jan. G. The “Daily Mail” St. Moritz correspondent states King Albert of Belgium had the thrill of his life when a hob sleigh on which he was descending St. Moritz at forty miles an hour, skidded and bumped badl,\ at Shamrock Corner, hurling out Lord Nothcsk the acting brakesman. Dudley IJelavaigne managed to- wriggle backwards to the vacant seat, pulling King Albert by the seat of his trousers until the balance of the bob was restored. At the end of the run King Albert enquired of Lord Northesk who injured his hack. “It was the greatest thrill, even greater than the war and even motoring.” King Albert is the first reigning monarch to- descend St. Moritz. He suffered an abrasion of the elbow.

A KING’S PRONOUNCEMENT. LONDON, Jan. (5. The “ Daily Telegraph’s ” Alexandria correspondent says fuel was added to the fire of the burning question of head-gear agitating Egypt by the pioliouncynient of King Imanuela, of Afghanistan, before departure for Italy, lmanuella suddenly condemned the tar-

brush, but for different reasons from those of the Egyptian doctors, who declare it"unhygienic and unsuitable lor a but climate;. The King’s argument is that if the fez bears no relation to religion and is in no way a. symbol of Jslams, lie also condemns the flowing robes for the surprising reason that they arouse the contempt of foreigners for the natives of eastern countries. 'Hie remarks are warmly approved by students belonging to the Sheiks trainin.r- centre, who went on strike a year ago, because the a-thorities retused them permission to wear bats and lounge suits and insisted on turbans and robes.

DOCTOR IN THE ring. LONDON, Jan. 0. rt is announced by Premlierlaud (London Stadium) that in future a doctor will sit alongside a referee and have power to stop lights if a boxer is being unduly punished. GERMANY’S DEFENCES. PARIS, Jan. 6. France is surprised at Germany’s defence budget of 1135,000.000. It .« pointed out for her skeleton army of a hundred thousand men, deprived ot tanks, aeroplanes, and big gnus, many will spend more in 1928 than she spent before tlie war on an Impeua armv of 700,000 men. Critics are concentrating on the item of £140,000 for the maintenance of gas masks, and ask if the repairs include gold-plating. POLICE ENQUIRIES. LONDON, Jan. 6.

Detectives boarded a steamship from Australia at Tilbury docks and interviewed a seaman concerning happenings aboard during outward voyage. It is understood new important ,i facts have thus come into possession of the police regarding the sensational murder of police constable Gutteridge, cabled on 25th. Nov. RAILWAY AFFAIRS. LONDON, Jan. 6.

The Comoner, Mr J. H. Thomas, in a speech to railwaymen, declared the Coalition Cabinet once decided on nationalisation of British Railways, but the policy was reversed in favour of grouping. EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS. LONDON, Jan. 6.

The ‘‘Daily Telegraph” states Anglo-E-'vptian negotiations are temporarily suspended, owing to the, menace of an Egyptian Cabinet crisis and partly owing to the protracted consultationjietween Britain, Australia and New Zealand.