GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 6 February 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

(Australian & N. 7. Cable Association.) RATE OF DISCOUNT. LONDON, Fob. 3, The advance in the New York rate of discount to four per cent cent, removes the last hope of an early reduction of the Bank of England rate. Financiers consider a movement of the latter is unlikely before AprilLEAGUE COUNCIL. GENEVA. Feb. 3. The Labour Office Council resolved to bold an International Maritime Labour Conference immediately after tbe Labour Conference of 1929. The Council adopted the French Governinent delegates motion that the Council examine the procedure to be followed regarding tlie proposals for revising conversations. The mover, Piequenard. said until this question was discussed the Council would be linkable to consider the British Government’s revision proposal. British Government delegates announced they reserved the right to place the revision on the 1929 agenda. Labour groups opposed the motion, on the ground that the Washington Convention should be upheld.

INDIAN PROTEST. DELHI, F«b. 3. In connection with the arrival of the Simon Commission to-day an effective hartal (demonstration) as a protest was observed in Bombay, and also Madras,- where a disturbance occurred. Tlie poHoo fired killing one and wounding five. More migrants. LONDON, Feb. 3. Migrants sailing to Australia number 162 including domestic servants for all States. 25 Ministry, of Labour farm trainees for Westralia, and ’A farm apprentices for QueeeuMand. The last named-are in charge of Armstrong who went to Victoria three years ago as a farm apprentice. He is at present in England on holiday, returning to Victoria for share ingBRITISH INCOME T.\X. _ LONDON, Feb. to

He did not want to disappoint people by building castles in the air, said Mr Churchill at Birmingham, when announcing that the Income Tax would not he reduced in the next budget. He added that there would b 6 no general election in 1928. MURDER CHARGE. LONDON, Feb, 5, The “ News of the World ’* say* that two men will he charged oil Monday with the murder of the policeman, Guttendge. English explorers. KILLED IN AFRICAN DESERT, LONDON, Feb. 4. It is feared that the worst has happened to Air and Airs Glover, who left England in 1926 for the purposes of scientific exploration through the Central African desert. News lias reached the Daily Express in a round about way that an African merchant living at Manchester has removed a , letter from an official at Alaidiyari in Northern Nigeria, stating that a runner has just come in with the bad news that Air and Mrs Glover have been killed in French Territory. Air and Airs Glover’s friends in London recently became most anxious because of the stoppage of regular communications. The last letter came from Faya in the Frcheli territory of West Africa, five hundred miles north-east of Lake Chad, and was written by Airs Glover on September. 28, and received by her sister at Croydon, about Christmas, It stated: “Wo have travelled over a waterless desert, often 19 to 20 Iwurs in the saddle. 1 am now seven hundred miles further than any white woman has ever been.”

SOVIET MONOPOLY IN FOREIGN TRADE. AVARSAAV, Feb, 4. The Soviet is about to abolish the State monopoly in foreign trade and permit private concerns to import and export goods. This' is regarded as a momentous decision. It i» one amounting to the recantation of one of Lenin’s cardinal doctrines. It is recalled that M, Trotsky accused the Stalinite* of surrendering vital Communist principles. This tm* indignantly denied, but, faced with :» serious financial position. AL Stalin has apparently surrendered to the inevitable. HOUSE RANSACKED. AVHILE OCCUPANTS’ ATTENDING' FUNERAL. LONDON, Feb. 3. Perhaps tlie meanest theft in history occurred immediately after a funeral left a house at Stamford Hill. Two men told the maid that they had come to get tlie coffin trestles. They departed minus these, but ransacked the bedroom and took cash and jewellery amounting to £l3O.

DOMINION STATUS. OTTAWA. Fell. 4. Attacking Canada’s equality status, and dragging Australia into the debate. Air C. ii. Chan, Conservative Member for St. Lawrence and St. Georges, in the House of Representatives, said it has been laid down by the Privy Council that the Parliament of Australia and the Parliament of Canada have not the jurisdiction of .Mexico, of Patagonia, or of any Power from Liberia downwards to Monaco, namely that oi* bringing" home and punishing by Australian or Canadia law, citizens guilty of crime beyond the confines of their States. GRE FATA N POLITICS. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. G. The “Sunday Express’’ states M. A’enizelos has gone to Paris following AL Eapliandaris’s threat to resign the direction of the Liberal Party if AL VenizJelos Continued putrfguos with militarists. ATHENS, Fob. 17. The reconstruction of the Zaimis Cabinet is regarded as practically impossible. The President has requested AL Capliandariss to negotiate with the party leaders.