GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1928, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

i Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.; HINDU HELEN. STARTED ANOTHER TROY. CALCUTTA, March 23. Rioting took place in the district o! Muttra between Hindu villagers ami •Moslem butchers, owing to a Minclii woman eloping and living with r. butcher. The latter refused to give up the woman. Twenty Moslems were killed. The restoration of order was delayed owing to the poorness of the communications. . SAVAGE ATTACK. ALSATIAN DOGS ON WOMAN. LONDON, March 23. The agitation against Alsatian dogs has been revived by a serious attack on -Mrs. Webb, who was walking three dogs at Ealing, when one seized the stick which she was carrying, as it often dill. Playfully she stooped to take the stick and then the dog savagely attacked her. biting off her ear and biting her arms and body before it was driven off.

Mrs Webb is in hospital in a serious condition. The three dogs were destroyed.

BUTTON CONTROLS. WORKLESS HOMES IN 2000 A.l). LONDON, March 23. An ideal home of the future, suggested as a probability for the year 2000, is on show at Olympia, and its labour-eliminating devices quite intrigued the Queen of Afghanistan, who inspected it. In the Utopian residence, the household work resolves itself into a matter of merely pressing electric buttons, but the creators believe that even this slight effort may lie eliminated by

, automatic controls. From the luxury of the lounge it will . I lion lie possible to eommaml devices lliat will wasli the dishes, mow the lawn, clean the windows, scrub floors, and launder the dirty linen. The ideal home also visualises many wonders of furnishing, which will give housholders every conceivable daily comfort. JACK TAR SUITS. PANTALOONS FOR SCHOOLGIRLS. BUDAPEST, March 23. While Paris and London dress designers arc seeking, with little general success, to re-introduce the harem skirts which were ridiculed into oblivion in 1911, a considerable percentage of the female population of Hungary is to don trousers—by order! The Minister of Education (Count Kuno Klohelsherg) has issued an order that all girl students at Hungarian State schools and colleges must wear sailor suits with wide pantaloons. The reason is that the Minister considers skirts have become too short, and as his exhortations to schoolgirls to wear frocks “of decent length ” have met with no response, he is “ compelled to prohibit skirts altogether during school hours.” Count Klohelsherg claims there is nothing ridiculous about his latest order, as trousers are an accepted and rational part of feminine dress, and are being introduced for everyday wear in the fashion shows of Paris and London. He points out that the women of China, Siam, and the Moslem districts of India have worn trousers or a form of knee breeches for hundreds of years without occasioning comment.

CHOIR STRIKES. VICAR BANS JAZZ. LONDON, March 23. Because the Rector, tlie Rev. J. Daft, prohibited smoking, dancing, and whist-drives in the church buildings, the choir of St. Clement’s Church, Broughton, Manchester, has struck. They declare that they are determined not to he treated like children, and dictated to regarding their pleasures. “ Whist-drives and dances throttle the spiritual life of the church, and prevent the extension' of true spirituality,” says Mr Daft. THROUGH TUBE. £25,000 NECKLACE. LONDON. March 23. Having purchased from a leading (inn of jewellers a diamond necklace worth {.‘Booo, and paid cash for it, says the Baris correspondent of the ” Daily News.” a prosperous-looking stranger had no difficulty, a fortnight later, in inducing the jewellers to send another necklace, valued at £20.000. to his hotel. When the messenger arrived the purchaser was shaving. He examined the necklace, dropped it into a soap-box above the wash basin, finished shaving, and then left the room ‘‘to get the money.” Tired of waiting, the messenger finally discovered that the soapbox was connected with a tube leading into the adjoining room. By that time the ” purchaser ” had got away in a waiting motor car.