GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

(Australian & N.Z, Cable Association.) EARL OF OXFORD. LONDON, Feb. H. The Earl of Oxford was still unconscious at midnight. Lady Oxford and Asquith have scarcely left the bedside during the twenty-four hours since Sunday, when her husband was suddenly taken ill. She expressed a wish for the family to he called home as soon as possible. LATER. Lord Oxford is sinking. His family are at his bedside. “\Ve are just waiting for the end,” said the lnitler, in reply to an inquiry at midnight. “It is a tragedy. He is the host master that ever stepped on earth. He looked very peaceful and beautiful when I was in the room just now. Thank God lie is not suffering.” explorer’s Libel action. LONDON. February 14. In the opening of the defence in the Mitchell Hedges’ libel action, Mr Jowit.t said: “1 suggest Air Hedges is an imjKister; making a claim he caniidt substantiate. No doubt he lias been to Panama, and has talked with Indians and had certain interesting experiences, hut a man who has written up those experiences, as Hedges lias, is an imposter.” William Shaw, chartered accountant, of Dublin, one of the attackers, detailed the abortive liokl-up on January oth and the successful attempt on January 14th. when Kenneth Taylor was tied' up. but neither Hedges nor Edged was knocked down or hurt in any va\ Edged deliberately made the grass untidv. in order to suggest that a scuffle had taken place. The whole thing was a prank to advertise Monomarks, the idea being that Hedges’ bag should be discovered in a sensational manner by means of Monomark. Cross-examined, Shaw admitted that after Hedges issued a writ against the “Daily Express”, he (Shaw) signed a statement to Hedges’ solicitor that Hedges and Edged were in no way privy in the hoax. ghaW added that he was now thorough’ ashamed of Laving signed the statement. Afirl’AL WORKERS’ STRIKE. BERLIN, Ferunry 13. Unices 50,000 metal workers now on strike for higher wages iii central Germany resume work before FebraurA 22, all (lie big firms, including Krupp Siemens and the General Electric, u Hl dose their works, idling 800,000 hafinH. LADY ASTOR’S VIEW. LONDON, Feh. 13. “It is the hundred per cent. American and the hundred per cent. Englishman I fear. I think ad the hundred per cent, citizens ought to he locked up,” said Lady Astor, who is herself an American, in the course of a speech at a luncheon in her honour at Lincoln. She continued: “America is very young, very large, very rich, and very bumptious, Ido not blame it. When England wits rel'y rich, she was also very bumptious. We only need to look hack to the Elizabethan times. We know that for year's England lifts been the governing country of tlio world. The time has come for another rich, large country to come in, and she is naturally trying to feel for the ropes. 1 am neither pro-English n’or pro-American. T want to devote my life to securing unity between the Empire and the United States—the two greatest Christian democracies. It does not matter whether America is popular. England never has been popular, hut she did not worry, and jieople who did not like her have come to respect her.” HIGH COST OF LIVING. BARIS, Feb. 13. The cost of living fit present is at the highest point in history. It is seven times more than pre-war. despite the fact that the franc has fallen only one-fifth of its pre-war value. Montmartre, so dear to tho heart (it the foreigners, is declining, find owners of dance halls and cabarets are discovering that they have killed the’ goose that laid the golden egg. There was a time when Parisians could have had an afternoon's dancing and refreshments for two shillings. With the arrival of tourists the French dropped out and the owners fleeced the tourists who are now avoiding Montmartre. x ANOTHER DEPORTATION. APIA, February 13, Mr Gurr was deported on Saturday to New Zealand. MR AM FR Y'S iM PREsSIONSb LONDON, February’ ln> Three quarters of an hour at happy phra.tc /Making. fit a crowded press conference enabl'd Mr Am cry to express a sense of the deep' impftt&jrW his Empire tour had made upoii him’., by the notable manifestations of the develdplHerit of fi more vigorous national spirit, anil » desire for expansion within the Empire. lit' in humourous vein the dodge of stuffing it Rotorua geyser with a sack to make ft perform better. He wondered whether the lavish hospitality of Australia and New Zealand should have had the same elf eta updit hint lie said the discussions ill Australia It'd to a hettor understanding of the impending big migration scheme. The variety of Stale viewpoints was inevitable, but he was sanguine that they would soon develop a satisfactory polity. They must devise precautions f<» pfeyenf newcomers drifting into the cities,• aggravating unemployment find treating an anti-migration feeling. Personally, Mr Anicrv said he felt British manufacturers had ft good opportunity to establish branches iti Australia .thereby directly assisting migration. Experience and conviction told him that tho most valuable training for settlers was. that given in Australia, though it would he useful to give some preliminary training here, in o'rder' that a newcomer should not face the farmer’s as a Tool. He had had discussions with fill the Government*and British repreentatives in the Dominions, hut lie could not comment nil these until he had consulted Cabinet. Commenting on the Canadian report. Air Amerv said he expected a big expansion of preference. He said \ihat lie had in mind was that as soon as Britishers were seized of the ideal of Imperial preference, it would lie steadily strengthened atid advanced.

A DRASTIC TEST. TO PROVE EFFECTS OF HARD EXERCISE. LONDON. February. 13. Doctor Adolphe Abraham, of Westminister Hospital. lecturing at the Royal College of Surgeons, describes a remarkable experiment to test the effect of athletics oil the arteries. “It has been said that prolonged strenuous athletics deteriorated the arteries. I was determined on a test, and specialist removed one of my arteries, and revealed that after 2. rears of athletics and hard exercise T W as as good a man as one who had never undertaken hard exercise.” Dr Abraham Objected to the tendency to attribute deaths during athleticefforts to heart failure.