GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(Australian Press Association Sun.) BRITISH TARIFF. PARIS, Feb. 11. At the British Chamber of Commerce annual meeting, Mr K. G. Barclay, in a presidential address, referred to the one-sided ness of An go-French trade, and urged the Brtiish Government to give immediate attention to French Customs duties. He suggested slight reciprocal concessions with British tariffs, not materially affecting British production. EARL OXFORD ILL. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 13. The doctor’s'liullotin states the Ear A of Oxford is’ suffering from acute > pharyngitis with bronchial complications. His condition is grave. EARL OF OXFORD AND ASQUITH LONDON, Feb. 13. Lord Oxford is unconscious and hi; family have been summoned. BRITISH POLITICS. (Australian Press Association & Sun.) (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 13. In the Commons Hon. Amcry, in reply to a question, said the expenditure by Empire jiarketing from May 20th to January 31st. was £377,000, of which £2OOO was on publicity and the remainder on economic investigation. The total since its inception was £822,000 mostly on scientific research. Air Baldwin in answer to a series of questions said the announcement of the decision to inquire into the rubber restriction scheme was issued on the evening of February Bth and was expressly marked for publication in the morning papers on February oth. Its publication in New York in the afternoon was due to the misunderstanding of the terms on which it was given to the pressmen and difference of time in London and New York. MURDKIt CHARGE. LONDON, Feb. 13. Kennedy and Browne were remanded. The prosecutor said Browne was found in possession of medical forceps believed to have been stolen from Lovell’s motor car, also bullets similar to that found in Gutteridge’s head. Furthermore, Kennedy, when arrested, made a statement that he did not' murder Gutteridge but was present and knew who did. AVOOL MARKET. LONDON, Feb. 13. Bradford is exceedingly firm and only a small amount of business is passing. , AUCTION BRIDGE. LONDON. Feb. >3. The new laws of auction bridge come into operation on March Ist. NEAV CRUISERS. LONDON, Feb. 13. The cruiser Australia, in her fullspeed trials on the Clyde, covered 32.5 • - knots, equalling the fastest British cruisers and compared with the old Australia’s twenty-six. The Canbcrrn’s progress is three months belli nil that of the Australia in order that —• the former might benefit by the experience and the new developments embodied in the Australia. The submarines Otwav and Oxley arc expected at Gibraltar to-day on the first stage of their journey from. Plymouth. They experienced a series of terrible gales in the Bay of Biscay, where speed was reduced to a minimum. RUSSIAN TRIAL. MOSCOW. Feb. 13. A man named Dobrovolsky was sentenced to death for the murder of Kozzo, while Goukovteh who bought the dead man’s clothes was sentenced to three years imprisonment. RUSSIAN EXPLOSION. LONDON. Feb. 13. The "Times” Riga correspondent states Moscow reports an explosion in the office of the German Thyssen concession at Stalinnad, formerly Tsaritlte‘- syn, killing 10 Russians and 3 Germans and destroying the building. The police report a workman, Steigner, neglecting a warning opened three cases of dynamite of lewt apiece with an iron hammfer. The manager left him hammering and later an explosion occurred. Steigner was killed.