GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.' GOVERNOR OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA LONDON, Jan. G. Major-General the Hon. Alexander Hore Ruthven has been appointed Governor of South Australia. DIAMOND RUSH. Capetown. .Tan. g. AVhat will probably be the last diamond rush in South Africa took place at Grasfoutein. Eastern Transvaal. Four thousand lined up at the starting point two miles from the coveted ground. At a signal hv the mining commissioner at noon, the silence was broken by a roar of tbc line of yelling humanity, which rushed over the ground. The best claims were pegged out within ton minutes. EXPLOSION FATALITIES. BERLIN, Jan. G. Eighteen bodies have been recovered from the ruins of the explosion. Seven are still missing. TDLE COAL MINERS. LONDON, Jan. 0. The Afinistrv of Labour has appointed Sir Warren Fisher, Sir John Cndman. and Sir David J. Shaokleton to constitute an Industrial Transference Board to arrange for the transfer of miners from the fields on which they are unable to find employment to other fields where work will lie available for them.

RADIO CRAZE. Paris, Jan. g. ‘ Deficiencies in the telephone service were likely to be worsened by a gen-erally-adopted new system whereby a subscrilier can he switched on to any opera theatre and music hall to listen to the performance in an arm chair. The scheme has hitherto been confined to a few theatres, hut all are now included. Notre Dame Cathedral is now installing microphones. CADETS PARDONED. PARIS, Jan. 6. The Saint Cyr cadets are included in tin* New Year pardons, and have rejoined the College. GERMAN ARMS’ BUDGET. BERLIN. Jan. G.

Even the Russians have taken up the campaign against Germany’s defence Budget of £3.3,000.000, including an ite mof £ 110,000 for the maintenance of gas masks. They point out that the expenditure on the army of 100,000 men exceeds tne whole of Prussia’s 191'i outlay on half a million men. The German Defence Alinistry retorts that critics are not allowing for the depreciation of currency or the many separate pre-war departments disbanded under the Versailles Treaty. The bitterest struggle is developing to restore the vote for the four million sterling cruiser which the Reichstag, at the instigation of the Prussians, deleted. OIL REFUSE. LONDON, Jan. G. An order issued by the Admiralty directs that oily refuse must not he discharged within fifty miles of the coast. It states that experiments for the disposal and treatment qf oily refuse are being continuer}.