GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

DR REAKES RETURNING. LONDON. Jan. 14. Dr C. J. Realms, chief of the New Zealand agricultural service, is leaving for South Africa to-day. lie will leave Africa for New Zealand after inquiring into agricultural questions ot interest to New Zealand. Since the Agricultural Conference. Dr Realms has visited most of the important research stations and has also given attention to the study of animal diseases, particularly with reference to dairy cows. He is gratified with the personal contact, established with agricultural and veterinary scientists of the United Kingdom. . ITALIAN ARRESTS. THE MAFIA SENTENCES. ROME. Jan. 10. Following the Mafia sentences, a lug round up of alleged criminals in Sicily. Three hundred were arrested and charged with 40 to 20 murders and attempted murders, IGO with thett. Ml with incendiarism and 100 tin othei crimes.

CHURCH AND MEXICO

OTTAWA. Jan. 10

The Catholic Clergy and Unity at Toronto are asking for the recall of the Mexican Consul-General. Mr U. M. Barron, as the result of a statement Ik* issued in connection with a visit made liv Sir Henry Thornton. President of the Canadian National Railways to Mexico, to assist that count]' with her railway problem. Doctor Fallon, Roman-Catholic Bishop of London. Ontario, has issued an open letter to the Prime Minister protesting against Mr Thornton’s visit as “a most disgraceful, indecent and indefensible episode.” Mr Barron, in a statement discussing the expulsion of clergy in Mexico said that the Church aided the revolt against the Government. It is understood that the matter will he raised in Parliament.

NEW METHOD OF GROWING.GRAIN. LONDON, Jan. IG. The “Daily Express” says that a now chapter in British agriculture is expected as the result of a discovery introduced into England from China by way of Germany. This consists in the development of the enormous potentialities of grain corn by firstly planting in a carefully-prepared seed bed, and then trans-planting in ordinary corn land. Bv the aid of machinery there is a saving of more than a tenth of labour. It. is claimed that a crop of 130 bushels to the acre is obtainable as against the present British average of 32. If successful. Britain would soon cease to depend upon foreign corn, and the prosperity of agriculture in the Homela~d would he restored. HAST GAMBLE. ACTOR STAKED ALL. LONDON, Jan. 5. After a long theatrical career, marked by many financial ups and downs, in which lie drifted from wealth to comparative poverty. Jack )\ . A\ ilson. Ihe variety artist, has died. His lifelong partner, Nellie Waring, was with him to the last.

Otherwise known as Mustante. Wilson, partnered by Nellie Warring, toured England, America. Australia and Africa. Altogether lie lost three fortunes on the Stock Exchange and on the turf and gambled away £lO.000 of his theatrical earnings in real estate at Seattle.

Before he was thirty he took £30.(100 from Australia ill 1893 and then lost £20.000 in a wheat: gamble at New York in 1907.

He lost a further £7OOO in an effort to recover bis losses on the turf. F urtlier fortunes went the same way.

He earned £IOO a week in England and £2OO in America, but finally died penniless of pneumonia in Fulham Hospital. Nellie Waring sat by bis bedside for 14 hours. Born in California, the son of a “forty-niner.” Wilson ran away in a travelling circus and then went into vaudeville. He later played in straight plays and was a contemporary of the great Cinquevnlli and Chirgwin.