GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

(Australian Press Association & Sun.) TELEVISION EXPERIMENT. '.Received thru day at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, March 7. Successful television between London and the steamer Rerengaria. ill mid-Atlantic, was received lids morning. when Brown (chief wireless officer of the Rerengaria) saw his fiancee sitting in a studio in London. These were carried on for two hours. The

vision was sometimes particularly clear. Imagine a sound formed in a studio and thence transmitted by a land line to Parley where it was broadcasted on a. forty-five motors and picked tip on the Berengaria’s short wave set.

A WARNING. PARIS, March 7

“Lo Ci.ulois" states: “He is Mind who docs not sec the close relationship between movements that are anti-British to-day and anti-European to-morrow. There is no shaking fsloni illusions on that point. They will prove their solidity is a danger sooner or later, which ought to exist amongst great Powers interested. Islam will become necessary as a common safeguard of the reawakening Islam is riot to develop into revolt, the consequences of which would he incalculable. LABOURITES BILL. {Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received this day at 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, March 7. Sponsored by AVnllseed and nine others, a Labourites’ hill has been introduced in the Commons designed to prevent unemployment. It proposes a National Board, consisting ol eleven members of the Cabinet, and of Departmental heads, should make advances from the funds of £10,000,000 yearly, to bo expended here or elsewhere ill the Empire, to promote developmental employment, including land, mines and roads.

ATTACK ON ARTILLERYMEN LONDON, March 7

A Paris correspondent states a Communist insulted tiro artillerymen's picket at Troyes, whom a hostile crowd attacked, The artillerymen fixed bayonets and charged and dispersed their attackers, injuring several.

A BIG FIRE. DELHI, March 7

A. tiro at Kilo re, in Ki.stria District, Madras, destroyed two thousand' houses. Ten thousand workers arc 'homeless and many are dead and injured. EXTRADITION GRANTED. PARIS, March 7. The Douni Court granted Lord Terrington’s extradition. SCHOLARSHIP AAV A BDS. LONDON, March 7. The Rhodes Scholar, C. E. Low, was awarded the Heath Harris travelling seJiolarship in German. R. \Y. Rhodes, winner of the .19:27 New Zealand universities travelling scholarship, was awarded a Heath scholarship in Ereach. BYE-ELECTION R LOS ULT. LONDON, March 7. Aire result of St. Ives bye-election owing to Hawkes judgeship is:—Mus Yr alter Runcrrnan (wife of the member of the Commons) (Liberal) 10,-H Sir Andrew Caird (Conservative) !, ' l7 : s Eivrl Hopkins (Labour; 1,310 LONDON, March 7.

The result of St. Ives’ bye-election establishes a precedent in the House of Commons, as a. man anc,l his wile will sit together. As both are Liberals it is a less piquant situation than it they belonged to opposing part res. Mr Jtuuciinu.il at present sits next to Mi Lloyd George in the front bench. The question arises whether Airs Runciman will be permitted to sit next to her husband or in a bumbler place in a. back ■bciK’lr. The victory Iras set the Liberal bells ariaging. The Conservatives do not disguise the tact that the turnover of votes is considerable, although they point out that &t. Ives has the reputation of being a persistent wobbler.

The “.Diiily Express” editorially says: “It is a sharp disappointment to the Government since every byeelection now assumed a new slgnificaneo. It shows a revival of Liberalism is not a mere wish, but a vital tact. Events definitely point to Liberalism taking its rightful place as the natural alternative a Conservative Government. MESSINA EARTHQUAKE. MESSINA, March 7. The severest earthquake since the disaster of 1908, lasted 10 seconds. Thus far no loss of life is reported, but a panic occurred, the populace rushing into the streets, fear stricken. Many are camping in the open. Fortunately the buildings built since the earthquake generally withstood the shocks, but the damage is considerable in some towns.