GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

SIR ALFRED AIOND. LONDON, May 6. Sir Alfred Aloud yesterday announc- _ ed that he will not again contest the'N*/ Carmarthen Division, for which he now sits in the House of Commons. Rumours have l>ecn current that Sir Alfred will he elevated to the Peerage in the King’s Birthday honours list. This announcement is regarded as confirming the report. If Sir Alfred sfond became a Peer there would he a bv-election in Carmarthen.

FINGER PRINT SYSTEM. \

(United Service.)

LONDON, Alay 7

Scotland Yard is detaining a sus- t poet believed to be wanted in ago and lias wirelessed a. formula Mill is fmger prints to America. He ■ has been lieid pending a Chicago p criminal’s finger prints being wirelessed Hack, which' will establish or disprove his identity.

The previous employment system resulted in the identification of New York counterfeiter, absconding on hail. A receiving bureau can reconstruct in five minutes coded letters and figures indicating individual V markings on the digits. \

ZINC PRODUCTS. BRUSSELS, A lay 7

Representatives of the leading zinc producers have decided to form a European Zine Cartel, to control the production and to arrange for a curtailment of production necessary in order to equalise the market. The overseas zinc- producers will he invited to cooperate, the. movement leading eventually to a world combine.

Questioned at the end of the meeting of producers, the British and German delegates expressed tlieir satisfaction at the result. They said they had not expected that so much would he clone. It was now only a question of the details to ho settled.

MOTOR TAXATION RECEIPTS. RUGBY. 51 av 5.

A return issued by the Ministry of Transport giving particulars of the gross receipts from taxation of road vehicles, for three months to the. end of February, shows that the gross amounts received in payment for licenses exceeded £15,500,000 during the three months, forty thousand motor- vehicles were registered for the first time.

COOLIE’S R EGAPTUR.E. APIA, slay 7.

Constable Hollis, and a settler named Gardiner, recaptured the escaped murderer, Ah Alan, this morning. Ho was armed with a knife, and he made a desperate resistance. He was shot with a revolver before lie was subdued. His wound is not serious.

IN THE

LONDON, .May 7

The House nf Commons read the second time the Rabbits Bill, a measure to enable the authorities to exterminate rabbits when their depredations become serious. Members of the House however, found the Bill most difficult to debate with becoming seriousness.

Air T. Johnston (Labour, Dundee) supported the Bill, adding: “ A good remedy for the rabbits would *be to encourage poaching! ”

Sir Newton Moore (Conservative, Richmond) said: “The rabbit in Australia used once to he treated as a nuisance. It lias now become a sourco of wealth. Sonic of the best * canned chicken ’ from Australia is really rabbit.” (Laughter.) ',■ Mr F. A. Alacquisteii (Conservative, Argyll) said that three of the worst nuisances in the Highlands were bracken. rabbits and steamboat traffic. 1-lares did less damage than rabbits. Air John Wheatley (Labour, Sliettleston, Glasgow’ interjected: “Are you referring to the electric hare?” (Laughter.) v Rt. Hon. Guinness, on behalf of the Government, said that there was no denial of the damage done to agriculture by rabbits. The only oppositi was regarding the methods. The Bill was read a second time without a division.

LIBEL ACTION SETTLED. (Received this day at'3.3o a.m.) LONDON, May 8. A settlement is announced by the King’s Bench in Prince Felix Youssopoff’s libel actions against the “Sunday Express,” “ Daily News,” and ‘ ‘News of the World,’ ’for a statement cabled on Kith Jan. Defendants apologised, saving the allegations were untrue, duo to a confusion of names, and indemnifying the Prince for all costs, paying a sum of money which the Prince will devote to Russian charities in Paris.