GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

(Australian Press Association it Sun.) CALT.SK ok disaster. ROME, Keb. 23. Tlie Principe.ssa Alafalda disaster must be attributed to defective workmanship in certain parts of the mechanism for the closing of the watertight compartment. AX ARREST. PERLIX, Keb. 23. The ex-Kaiser’s brother-in-law Zoubkoff was arrested at three o’clock tms morning at a cafe, allegedly for knocking a page-boy senseless. Zoubkoff was taken to the police station and released after giving his name and address. A GIFT KUK AMIR. ** BERLIN, Keb. 2.:. 'lhe German Government has presented King Amanallah with a tenseater aeroplane as a souvenir of his visit to Germany. There are already a. few similar machines in service in Afghanistan. FINDINGS AT UR. LONDON, Feb. 23. Evidence of human sacrifices on a '' lavish scale was found in two more , ; royal tombs discovered ,at Ur, dating back to the -fth. millennium before Christ. The builders apparently were familar with the construction of arches, which the western world did not adopt until three thousand years later. Against the foot of the King’s grave were eleven bodies of women wearing rich liead-dress covered in gold lapis carnclinn. Two ranks of soldiers guarded the entrances. The eop|x>r helmets are still on the crushed skulls. ! Queen Shubad’.s tomb is the richest 1 yet found. She has ten gold finger rings, a. cloak entirely covered with heads fastened to the neck with big gold pins, whereto is attached lapis cylinder seals alongside a, silver pair m of cockleshells containing toilet paints and a set of 18 plated tumblers. SNAKE IN MID-AIR. ri RANGOON, .Jan. 5. The Rangoon Times publishes a telegram stating that Dipt. Lancaster il and Mrs Keith Miller, who arc flying 11 from London to Australia, have had a ° remarkable adventure in mid-air. . Shortly alter leaving Rangoon a brown snake appeared from under Mrs !'.* Keith Miller’s seat. Capt. Lancaster " tried to kill it by stamping on it, hut missed the snake, and it wriggled away * K i nto the cockpit. '. ir Airs Miller, who showed great pro- ° sonce of mi nil, took out the front control lever, known as the jov-stick and j with it killed the reptile.