GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 April 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

STEP TOWARDS PEACE.

THE SHIP-BUILfDLNG INDUSTRY

Australian Press Assn.-—United Service

RUGBY, April 1. An important development, which completes the machinery for maintaining peace in the shipbuilding industry, has been taken by the Shipbuilding Employers’ Federation, and the Shipyard Trade Unions, which have issued a joint invitation to the Rt. Hon Mr Pattisoii Macmillan, the well-known King’s Counsel, to lie independent chairman nt the national conferences to b<- held under the agreement reached (hat, year. M i mil,*ui has accepted the post. A DMU’ISTRATiOX OF ADEN. RUGBY, April 1. K'iX'i fiirs appointed Lieut. Colo?!/-■;, Kyws<*>, Chief Secretary f.o (7:sfert>ut<-ul of Palestine, to be ReaPS-i'fjf. and Commander-in-Chief at Ado, in succession to .Major-General Stewart. The appointment is the first made

under the new arrangements for tlie administration of Aden, by which responsibility for political and military matters is vested in his Majesty’s Government in Great Britain, while the internal and municipal administration of the settlement of Aden remains the responsibility of the Government of 1 ndia. WIRELESS BAN REMOYED. RUGBY, March 31. The British Broadcasting Corporation. in an announcement regarding the recent removal of the ban on wireless discussions of controversial subjects, says that the new material made

available will be introduced gradually and experimentally, and that controversy on political and economic sul>jocts will he admitted with safeguards for impartiality and equality of treatment. The subject will he dealt with in such a way that the main opposing view can he presented on an occasion clearly contrasted and linked as closely as possible.

Debates and discussions will be the normal procedure, and the removal of the restrictions will not moan the immediate introduction of indiscriminate controversy. Each of the three political parties has hecn offered a talk in the near future. “DAWN” COMING TO AUSTRALIA IjONDON, April 2. The film “Dawn” has been sold to an Australian purchaser at a record price. FRANCE V. GERMANY. LONDON, April 2. A Dublin report says it is likely the Germans will lie forestalled in the trans-Atlantic flight. Spindler, Kochi’s relief returned to Germany to-day. Meanwhile it is announced that Drotthin. the French pilot, who was prominent as last year’s aspirant, is due to reach Baldonnell to-day, and will there await an opportunity to proceed to New York. GLEITZE FAILS AGAIN. / GIBRALTAR. April 2.Gleitze made her fifth attempt to swim the Straits from Tarifa to Ceuta (Morocco), but abandoned it when one mile from her goal. OBJECTION TO PORK’S INTERDICT.

LONDON. April 12 The “Daily Mail” Paris correspondent reports there were riotous scenes at High Mass at Perignan Cathedral, when the Archdeacon lead from the pulpit the Papal Ordinance against the supporters of Action Francaise (the Royalist paper, which interdiet was cabled on .March 20). The supporters of the Royaiist paper immediately rose in their seats and noisily walked out. Others hurled insults at the Archdeacon, who was hooted on leaving the Cathedral. LIFE IN MARS. LONDON, April 2. The possibility of communicating with Mars and other planets has again been brought into the sphere of controversy, by the declaration of Bishop Barnes, in a sermon in Westminster Abbey, that it is almost inevitable that there are many other planets ljearing life, lie added: “We might some day be able to intercept messages from beings to whom cur u ireless is commonplace of the almost forgotten past. Scientists agree that probably life is elsewhere, but' disagree as to the possibilities of 'actual proof.

“Sir Oli.'cr Lodge says perhaps we may never know anyone who would understand messages from other planets. Professor Low suggested 'lie pi; - sihility of an attempt to gain Gin <>;, i of Mars by means of a great smoke doud of twenty miles, or an ela’-o-rate system of illumination, idle exists everywhere, and if ,ve aad the eyes of a microscope we would he afraid to take our mornll’s*, ha'li. AY by should we.he so extraordinarily conceited and u.veiiiie life dees *:• *t exist on other planets? It may lie life there is so far ahead of our own, that it exists only through forms, without physical existence. It is a possibiltv that Martians see hv a form of X-rays.”

ROYAL DONATION. LONDON, April_ 2. The King has contributed five bundled and tho Queen two hundred anil fifty ixiund.s to the Mansion House Fund for distressed miners. BIG OFFER FOR PICTURE. PRAGUE, April 3. An American syndicate has offered the St. Rahov Convent a million dollars for Borers “ Feast of Rose Garlands.” which badly needs cleaning hut was one of the most famous pictures in the world when Emperor Rudolf 11. purchased it. QUEEN’S NEPHEW INJURED. PARIS, April 3. A'iscount Trematon, the Queen’s nephew, was overturned in a motor-ear on Lyons Road and was injured. His undergraduate companion was killed. SUMMER TIME. LONDON. April 2. Summer time begins in Britain on 21>t April, in France. Belgium, and Spain on 14th April, and in Holland on 15th May. A DISASTROUS FIRE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) DELHI. April 3. A great fire is raging in the cotton and wheat stacks at the Karachi Railway Yards, and threatens the city. The damage already is £680,000. ail area of two square miles ticing swept by the flames which are fifty -font 'high. All troops, police, and civilians were called out to fight tho blaze. It was so fierce that the fire fighting apparatus was useless with the meagre water supply. Fortunately the wind changed, otherwise five miles of wharves 'and stores would have been involved. Earth harriers are being erected in an effort to stem disaster to the city. A portion of tho city is evacuating.