GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

- \\%F- . • (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) MEMORIAL TO EARL HAIG. LOXIMIN. April 211. It is iituToi stod ”"Ihat- 7tn "cquostrian statue in London will he the national memorial to Field-Marshal Earl Haig and that the Royal Fine Arst Coinmission. which was deputed to consider the subject, will report shortly to the Government to this effect.

It is stated that the site proposed for the memorial will he in Whitehall. facing the Cenotaph.

If the proposals are approved, sculptors of high reputation will he invited to submit designs for the final approval of the Government.

JAP SQUADRON COMING TO NEW ZEALAND. TOKEO. April "X 4 (Sub-Lieutenant Prince Takamatsu, the Emperor of Japan's second brother. sailed on Monday morning on a six months’ training cruise on hoard the cruiser Y akhonto. from the Y 01-0-hauia Naval Base. He is scheduled to arrive at Wellington. New Zealand. on July 2oth. Ills squadron consists of the cruisers Yakliimio and Irzutno, the same ships which visited tlie United States in 1927. It is commanded by Y'ice-Adniiral Kobayaslu, who was adviser to the Japanese Delegation at I lie Three-Power Naval Conference at Geneva. Prince Takamatsu is .scheduled to return home in October or November.

HUNDRED'S OF CASUALTIES. ATHENS. April 21

The details of the devastation and of the death roll in Bulgaria were hardly complete when further serious shocks, lasting front nine o’clock in the morning till three o'clock in tne afternoon were reported from Greece. The shocks have devastated the city of Corinth. This is not the Corinth in which St. l’aul preached, hut a newcity. three miles away, built to 10plnce the old town that was destroyed hy an earthquake in 1808. Only the ruins of the Temple of Apollo remain to indicate the classical city. PENSIONS FOR MIGRANTS. LONDON. April 21 Ylr Leonard Ylclvcir/.ie, of Wellington. N.Z. in an interview said that ho had discusse-l with a number of Scottish Societies the establishment of Anglo-Doininioiis reciprocity in the payment of old age pensions to recipients changing their country of domicile. The societies, he said, were interested in the proposal in view of the increasing emigration to the Dominions. He has persuaded a number of Scottish members of the House of Commons to take up the matter. IMPERIAL TRADE. LONDON, April 21. Sir Alfred Mood, addressing tl'o Colonial Institute on “Tlie Empire i;i the New Era.” said it inis imperative that British trade should he teorganised intcr-tuiperially. This was now of supreme importance. No nation ever hud the opportunity that Britain possessed of co-operation with the Dominions. If that opportunity were not taken shortly. it would never occur. The Capitalist—Trade Union Conference which he had initiated had exceeded his most sanguine expectations. Incidentally he was interested to see that Mr Bruce, the Australian Premier, was endeav-

ouring to form a Conference lor a

similar puspose. it: an attempt to reconcile tlie Capital and Labour diliieiiltios. It was useless to attempt to burke the fact that such difficulties were rife. Australia's industrial development was held hack thereby. No wonder British investors thought twice about erecting factories there. He commended the Canadian legislation compelling an inquiry to precede all labour stoppages.

EOIiEICiX EACHANDES. (Deceived this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, April do. On London, lirussels -1 1.00, Paris Idl.od. Stockholm IS.Itl. Oslo ] S.dd, Copenhagen Is.dl, lierlin dU.4I. Rome iid.lili. ( alcutta IS. Yokohama d.'l 7-1(1, Hongkong d 11, Amsterdam U.Jlj. I!a----tavia Id. Id. Prague Id If.

POM HAY STRIKE. DELHI. April Jl. Disorder is spreading daily in llomhay. At present fifty cotton mills are closed and nearly ?(),()(ll) workmen are

Two strikers were killed, as the icsull ol police lire among them. The lender ol the strike is Headley, who came to India to replace Spratt when Spralt was arrested.

At a result of the failure of lastyears monsoon, Hankura district in India is in the grip of a famine. Seven thousands agriculturalists and weavers are alle: fed.

FRENCH ELECTION'S. LOXIXIX. April d.L 'I lie IjOUl'so is pleased with the b rench elections. Out eminent stock ruse sharply. However, (he real mind ol Erame will not he revealed idl Sunday next. April d!)th. Nevertheless. Premier Poim are's mandate to stabilise the Irani- is likely (o Ik- renewed. The Communist vote is heavy, numbering llo,d(l(). “ I lie I inns s" Paris correspondent savs: Second ballots are necessa-v in •MO const it iioneies. largelv due In the numerous candidates and also to split votes. OBITUARIES. T.OXDOX. April Oliituar.v. —Oeorge lleniv Huberts, lormerl.v Minister of Labour and Eood ( ontroller. HR ESSEI.S, April Jo. Obituary.— The Russian Oeneral, Wrangel. C.S. POLITICS. XKW VOHK. April 21. Xews from " Columbia (Ohio) fiiulieates that Hoover obtained a majority of Ohio's fifty-.me delegates of Democratic primaries. All I'm-ty-cight delegates are instructed to vote for Smith. x ati ox a lists’ success. WASHIXOTOX. April JL

The State Department is again m rinislv considering the wholesale evaeu--11 inn of Ameri- .iils from the Chill -se 1 : /'one. due to the continuation of lie Southern Armies’ unimpeded drive ownrds Pekin. There are at present over tweittyive humlred Enited States’ citizens n the provinces ol Chihli and Slinrnng. which form the theatre of the