GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 March 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. DAIRY PRODUCE. LONDON, March 22. Butter—Colonial is less active ami slightly easier. New Zealand, choicest salted 172 s to 1745, unsalted 174 s to 178 s ; Australian, salted and imsafted 1665, exceptional 188 s; Danish, 1965. Cheese—New Zealand, 98s to 100 s; Australian, 90s to 98s. ANONYMOUS V.C. FROM INVALID TO HERO. LONDON, March 24. A modern Dick Whittington was described by Sir Frank Benson at i City Livery Club luncheon. He said that the young fellow in question until lie reached the age of thirty,') found everything unpleasant. Life gave him a headache. At the out-^ : break of the war. he was afraid to join up. for fear that the guns would, give Lint a headache. Ultimately he found himself at Zccbnigge in charge of a mine sweeper. His job was to set a smoke screen and carry off the survivors from the ship that blocked the mouth of the canal. He carried a small black cat on bis shoulder, did the job, and got the V.C. When the King asked what his profession before the war. he replied that he was ashamed to say that he was a professed invalid. He did not divulge his identity because of his relatives. FATE OF THE “E.ll. STERLING.” LONDON, March 24. There is a distinct touch of pathos in the fact that the sailing vessel E. R. Sterling, which is being sold at Hull to be broken up, is to end her forty-five years of noble life at the ship-breaker’s yard. The terrible battering she had. as cabled on January 30th last, meant the end. •‘She is to he towed round this week-end. Tlicu we part,” said Captain Sterling. “T. could refit her at a 0, cost of five thousand pounds, but freights are depressed.” An expert says that in the present sf ate of i he mar ket, the E.R. Sterling, for which her captain once rejected an oiler of fifteen thousand sterling, would not realise more than four thousand. Captain Sterling is undecided as to the future. He thinks that he may give up sailing vessels in favour of steam. In any ease, he is going to America first, and then to Australia. A touch of the sea dog was apparent when he was informed that the ship would have to be ballasted in order to be towed. Captain Sterling said: "It is not necessary to have her ballasted, 1 will stay aboard throughout the tow and show you 1” British warning. LONDON. March 23. “I consider it most unwise to attempt to fly the Atlantic from east to west, until we have machines of greater endurance,” declared Air Minister Hoare in a speech at. Birmingham. “I do not desire to criticise that brilliant pilot, Hinchcliffe. and bis courageous companion, but to warn others that the risks at present are too great. At the same time, it would he unwise, as well as impracticable' for the Government to interfere with the individual’s right to embark on such an adventure. Public opinion is rightly jealous of any attempt to curtail Ihe spirit of enterprise and utT- if venture.” ITALY’S ENTERPRISE. LONDON. March 23. The Rome correspondent of “The Times" says:—ltaly possesses eighteen hundred aeroplanes, of which one thousand are usable immediately for war purposes. There were 420 constructed last year. This statement was made by Signor Bailbo (UiiderSecretary for Air) in the Chamber of civil aviation. He claimed for Deputies. when explaining an expenditure of £7,600,000 sterling for military Italy the third place in European civil aviation, she only l>oing surpassed by France and Germany. He added that Italy was opening five now air lines in June, including connections with Spain. Germany and Tripoli. lle recalled that Italy holds the height and speed records and that i she aims at capturing the records for distance and duration now held ny America. NEW JAP CRUISER. TOKYO, March 24. The first class cruiser llaguro, was launched at the Mitsubishi dockyard at Nagasaki to-day. Prince Enshimi attended the ceremony. BALKAN CRISIS. BUCHAREST, March 23. In the absence of M. Tituleseir, Premier, owing to indisposition, a statement was read in the Senate and the Chamber to the effect that the Goeriiment of Roumania refuses to accept the League of Nations’ Council’s decision in the Hungarian dispute. It maintains the position approved by the Council in September 1927. which consists of an arbitral tribunal of five Roumania had fulfilled by a generous • Her to compensate Hungarian landowners out of reparations due from Hungary. Roumania refuses to admit (lie right of a now tribunal to decide i question affecting ber sovereignty. ’1 lie statement was received with enhusiasm in both Houses of Government, and a motion of confidence in W. Titulescii was carried. BELGRADE, March 21. The Yugo-Slav authorities seized wenty-two wagon loads of ammunition it Subotiqu station, allegedly from taly for Roumania, via Hungary. It vas ascertained twelve trucks previmsly passed through containing exdosives. Mil AMERY’S TRIP. (Received tins day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 24. Hon. Amerv iind Sir J. Ilyrie were he Chief guests at the Press Club of he Dominions last night at a ilr Amerv said the last Englishman to uake such a trip as his, though in the everse direction, was Sir Francis Bake, who brought hack a wonderful ,' tory of romance of new worlds and V-r lie prospects opened up for England. V" le was not sure that Drake brought nek more romance than he had sectrv i the last few months round the orld. Each Dominion was much 'rapped up in its own history and uttire destiny, all recognising it was lit part of a wider destiny of empire, he journey made at the end of one eriod and beginning of another end ol lie stage of building up a seli’-govern-lent of , which the climax and fruit ere seen when all stood together m ie Great War. Minority tutelage had >w ended and they were working as dleagues with equal freedom. Never iroughotit the tour, had he seen or ;*ard anything suggesting that this n ;w freedom was conceived as the helming of a disintegration, but as a ■w. sounder and more enduring basis co-operation. The last Imperial iinference took a tremendous act of ith, and the progress ot the world sted cm acts of faith. He believed ie form or another of this act of faith as justified or tfie good and peace of ie world and advancement of fho ritisb people.