GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service

700 MILES FOR PART. LONDON, May 3. Mr Sliayle" Gardner, the well-known New Zealand Shakespearean and film actor, hearing that Rex Ingram, the famous producer of “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” was seeking an actor of his type, travelled 700 mile s to secure the part. He found Ingram bathing at Nice.

The hitter was so pleased with Gardner’s- dash that ho engaged him lor his latest film, “The Three Passions,” by Cosmo Hamilton.

OVFRSKAS PARTY. (Received this day at 0.30 a.m). LONDON, May 10. The Overseas Settlement party, cabled last night, sails for South Africa on Ist June, leaving Capetown for Australia by the Demosthenes on 20th July.

BISHOP BARNES

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(Received this day at 10.15 a.m.' LONDON, May 10.

If the New Hook is passed all hope lof Church Unity will ho at an end, said Bishop Barnes, in a speech at a Birmingham meeting, at which the Commons was urged to reject the Braver Book. The. new proposals were substantially the same as the old, and deserve the same fate. There was reason to fear that grave evils eliminated at the reformation might he re-establish-ed. The Book evaded crucial issues, and sought a. compromise where a compromise was impossible. It faced both ways. If reservation became a church law, it would revive the belief that there was a peculiar virtue in holy water given a dying man. Such a belief was foolish. Anglo-Catholic abuses would ho permitted and the Bishop would he powerless to enforce his .decisions. The threat of a dis-estahlisli-inent campaign if the hook were rejected could be ignored. He suggested a moderate lion-contentious revision. and simplifying of the Old Book and adopting it for modern needs, without a. revival of superstitious practices. Concurrently, measures should he introduced for the restoration of order within the Church.

INDIAN STRIKE TROUBLE. DELHI, Mav 10

The Lillooali strikers reduced demand being again rejected by the railway authorities, the men have adopted a policy of holding up all traffic in the neighbourhood of l.owbnh station. Fighting broke out in the morning when the police began the forcible removal of fourteen strikers. Five police were removed to the hospital.

ITALIAN TRAIN DISASTER. Australian Press Assn.—United Service (Received this dav at 12.25 0.m.l ROME, May 10. A passenger train collided with thousands of tons of earth and two houses which a mountain landslide, due to rains hurled on the railway line near Ascoli. » A number of coaches were overturned and six corpses were, recovered from the debris. It will take five days to clear the lino. A LASCAR. MUTINY. L“ The Times ” Service.] BRUSSELS, May 10. A mutiny broke out aboard the steamer Clan Machiel, well-known in Australia. Lascars, although their contracts were not completed, demanded pay at Antwerp with the intention of leaving the ship. Violence met a refusal. and the first and second officers were injured. The police were unable to hoard a foreign vessel ami summoned the British consul. The general ringleaders were arrested.

SOUTH WEST AFRICA. CAPETOWN, May 11

The South-west Assembly which is equally divided with German ond ProUnionists, decided oil the easting vote of the chairman, to pass a vote ol ,050,000 fov the settlement of Angola Boers in South-west Union, and provided the money, hut the Auditor-Gen-eral insisted on the adoption by the Assembly. The vote was discussed for. seven hours. ’1 he. administrator stressed his efforts to respect German sentiment. If they rejected tlie vote 'it. might he interpreted as a race prejudice. The Governor-General now orders the vote to pass. The Boots trekked after the war to the number of a thousand. They are dissatisfied with Portuguese conditions. They chiefly do not reeongisc “ Rikaans ” medium of education in Northern I’liodesia.