GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 29 February 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

(Australian Press Association & Sun.) VALUABLE All TOC! R API f. LONDON. Foil. 23. An autograph maniiserijit verse hy Oliver Goldsmith was aiietioned and realised JL'SOOO sterling. EGYPTIAN A FLA IKS. LONDON. Feb. 28. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Cairo correspondent reports Snrwat Pasha communicated to Cabinet the result of his protracted negotiation with Britain embodying the British Government’s last word and he intends to r make a statement in the Chamber in the mid-week. It is believed the terms will not satisfy Nationalist aspirations regarding army occupation of Soudan. Sarwat’s resigunti n seems inevitable. ITALIAN MOVE IN AFRICA. f“ Sydney Sun” Cables.]

(Received this day at 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 23. The “Daily Mail’s” Rome c-orm pendent says following a series o -if strenuous operations, Italian eolonia ” troops extended the occupation o C.vrenaica to the edge of f.ibvnn do sort and pernianenfly garrisoned tw« oases controlling tim caravan route Well aimed Arabs defended Tegris to the last gasp and elsewhere i thousand horsemen resisted the Ilal inns for several hours, leaving tine, hundred dead. The total killed win five hundred. Many prisoners and much booty was captured. The Italians lost 210 killed or wounded. LA 110 UR CONFERENCK. LONDON. Feb. 23. The agenda of the Independent Labour Party Conference at Norwich on . 3rd April includes resolutions favouring a six hour day in nationalised coal industry, living wage for all workers, ratification of the Washington Hours' Convention, training schemes for land workers desiring work in England or abroad, arbitration in international disputes 'compulsory Anglp-Amerioan arbitration traetv, also condemning Government support of films glorifying war. MEDICAL ENQUIRY. (Australian Press Association & Sun.; LONDON, Feb. 28. Following up Dr Oolebrook’s and Capt. S. R. Douglas’s war-timo investigation into the possibility of salvarsan, new salvarsan being used in the treatment of septicaemia, Colebrook lately extended his investigations t;> puerperal infections. The Medical Research Council publishes his report, which takes into account the possibility of a chemotherapeutic agent defeating its own ends by concurrent poisoning of the body cells. Summing up. th© report says although there is ground for believing the administration of these arsenicals sometimes leads to the destruction of streptococi and assists patients to recovery, this should not be expected in all cases, therefore It is necessary for careful clinical tests to be carried out to determine precisely how much can he achieved. ALCANTARA ENQUIRY. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) W LONDON, Feb. 28. Giving evidence at the Alcantara impicst, the captain of the Tovarisch declared the Alcantara struck his ship on the port side. Asked how the Al.cantara’s lantern was found hanging on his bowsprit, he said the bowsprit must have hit the Alcantara’s foremast. Asked why lie did not launeli lifelxmts he said he did not realise the Alcantara was sinking. He had to consider the safety of his men. damages' awarded. 'Received this dav at 12.25 p.m.) Paris, Feb. 28. During the Boulogne summer race. 1927, a British automobile crashed into a crowd and killed a gendarme, and seriously injuring two spectators. In the absence of representatives of the British car who could be sued, i the dependents victims sued tlie Auto- i mobile Club. The Appeal Court do- i cided that the Club holding the races i assumed responsibility for all risks and awarded the gendarme’s widow twelve hundred sterling and his two children four hundred each.