GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service TALLOW SALES. LONDON, May 23. At the tallow sales. 753 casks were ottered and Bit sold. Prices were unchanged. COMMERCIAL. LONDON, May 23. Gold is 84s 11 )d.

ST. PAUL’S SAFE. (United Service.) (Received tins day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, May 23: Saint Paul s is now safe, according to experts, says the “Evening News.” Constant observations by plumb lines and theodolites show no movement of the piers for two years. The main join namely, the consolidation of the piers, is nearly finished. The next bill operation consists of winding a. chain four times round the dome, to preverft it spreading. Each link is fifteen feet long.

ROYAL EMPIRE SOCIETY. LONDON, May 23. The Royal Colonial Institute, celebrating its diamond jubilee changed its name, to the Royal Empire Society.

'SENSATIONAL ENQUIRY. (Received this day at 12.25 D.m.) LONDON. May 23. Following up the sensational development of the Pace murder case, public interest has centred in the inquest on Hilary Rotigier, aged seventy-seven years, a bachelor farmer at Woking Tho ease has taken a remarkable turn owing to the examination ol William Lonvill, a well-dressed man in the early thirties in whose house Rotigier was living when he died on August I Ith. tflgt;. The body was exhumed two months ago and inquiry ordered by tin* Home Office.

Lonvill in his evidence to-day admitted he had between five and six thousand sterling from Koiigier in cheques. Other evidence was to the effect that when Rougier’s body was exhumed, morphine was found in the Iwdv.

Lonvill said he had no idea how morphine came there, lie had a recollection that Rougicr asked him to get laudanum for dogs suffering from eczema. He admitted many of the cheques were in his handwriting hut tho signature was Rougier’s. He did not know Rougicr had only £SO left after he had received £O,OOO. this mostly in the form ol gifts, as Lonvill was in financial difficulties.

Hardwick, a solicitor, gave evidence that he had personally met Rotigier and explained that Lonvill was in financial difficulty. Rougicr said he had known Lonvill since his boyhood, and was willing to help him to avoid bankruptcy. Hardwick added that he thought Rougier must be wealthy in view of the free manner lie gave the

THE EXTREME PENALTY. LONDON, May 23. Browne and Kennedy will he exeeut ed at different prisons on May 31st.

ROCKET MOTOR-CAR. (Received this day at. 9 a.m.) TER LIN. May 23. Amazing results were attained at Avis racecourse, at an official trial of a rocket motor ear. It bounded off like a bomb, emitting flame and smoke, and was travelling at 125 miles hourly forty seconds after the start. The inventor Opel says he has built a new model, capable of 205 miles hourly on a soil track.

VILNA COMMUNIST TRIAL. (Received this day at 11.15 a.hi.). VILNA, May 23. Nineteen out of fifty-six Buthenian Communists charged with conspiracy to establish a proletariat dictatorship in the Polish White Russian provinces were acquitted. Pour pig-lenders, all ex-members ol Seym, were sentenced to twelve years, the other sentences ranging from three to eight years. Spectators in the gallery cheered and showered flowers upon those acquitted, who replied by singing the Communist anthem: “We slept for centuries am! are now awakened.”

The police had the hardest job to quell the demonstration. The trial lasted three months. It was earlyalleged that the Soviet Legation at Warsaw w.as the medium supplying funds for the plot. Soon afterwards the Soviet counsellor was recalled.