GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

(United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) CHEAP 101? SUGAR FOR BRITAIN LONDON, April 12. 'Hie Morning Post understands that despite the protests from overseas, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr \V. Churchill, intends to include a suhstantial reduction of the sugar duty in his Budget. COUNTERFEITERS PLOT. DELHI, April Ri. The most sensational cdliiitciTeit case in India for many years has concluded at Kaarehi. As a result, four Indians were sent to prison for terms varying from two to seven years, and two Englishmen named 0. E. Dickenson and C. I). Wheeler, were sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for two and four and a-half years respectively. it was disclosed that the dies of rupees, Persian and other coins were obtained by the agency of Wheeler from England. The finding of a ease of these dies at Karachi Custom House led to the arrest of Captain R. P. Farrell, an 0.8. K. Captain Farrell, however, turned approver. The operations proposed were to have been conducted at a remote spot on the Persianlialuchistan frontier.

SCOTTISH COMMUNISTS. LONDON, April Ri. As the first move in a tight against the official Labour Party at the Oeneral Election, the Communists have selected Mr .). T. Murphy, who is described as a Scotsman, to oppose -Mi 1 Ramsay MaeDomul at Aberavou. NEW PROPELLANT. BERLIN, April Ri. The belief that all speed records arc beatable by a rocket car. appears in a statement issued by the Opel Motor Company, (laiming that Mat Valier, who is nicknamed “The Fantastic Cosmos Flyer,” owing to his idea of building a rocket which can he shot into space .has invented a motor car. driven like a rocket by combustible powder, instead of petrol. The Company says that this motor car has attained a speed of 100 kilometres per hour within eight seconds of starting. it will shortly make an effort to break Campbell's record, which will necessitate the rocket car travelling on a railway track. 'l’he company adds that the machine is only a step towards a rocket air machine, which will In* able to reach higher altitudes than have ever been attained, without any crew. 'I he company is convinced that such a machine will even this year penetrate space.