GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LORD LINCOLNSHIRE’S CONDITION SERIOUS. LONDON, June 11. Lord Lincolnshire’s condition is serions and oxygen lias .been administered. FOUND WOUNDED. SUVA, June 12. After a week’s stay in Suva, on Monday afernoon, George Robert Hayward, an employee of Diorris Hedstrom of Levuka, was found unconscious with a gunshot wound in his head on tho beach at Cawaci near Levuka. There was a bullet wound in his brain. Hay—ward had domestic troubles. WORKING OF DAWES’ SCHEME. BERLIN, June 11. Parker Gilbert’s report on the working of the Dawes scheme repeatsplea that the finaL amount of the German’s reparation, liabilities should he fixed as soon as possible, as the debt rises the foreign investor is bound to ask with greater and greater insistence for a clear definition of the ultimate extent of the obligations and' only lend Germany at rates high enough to ensure against uncertainties involved. It would he in the best interests of __ creditor powers and Germany alike to reach a final settlement and mutual agreement as soon as possible. Tho tone of the report is optimistic. It says the Dawes plan continues to realise the expectations of balancing the German budget and stabilising the currency. Gilbert renews tho warning that the Government is spending and borrowing too much. Recent increases in wages for railways cost'£2l,Boo,ooo annually. GERMAN CABINET RESIGNS. BERLIN, June 12. Dlarx has submitted Cabinet’s resignation. Hindenburg entrusted the Socialist leader Hermann Dluller with tho formation of a Dtinistry. DOMINION FARDIERS’ VISIT. LONDON, June 12. Dominion farmers were the guests of the Port of London Authority, and inspected the docks, cold storage and tobacco warehouses, and the cattle quarantine areas. The vice-chairman of tlie Port of London Authority, in a speech at a luncheon, said he hoped the result of their inspection would convince the representatives of the Dominions that London was the most efficient port in Britain for the handling of their produce. SOVIET CRITICS. LONDON. June 12.

“The Times’s” Riga correspondent states: Tho'Soviet lias decided to reinstate DI. Zinovieff, DI. Ramenoff, DL Piatakoff and a few others immedately that their six months’ probation expires at the end of June. DI. Zinovieff and DI. Rameneff must reside at Kaluga, but they, can spend much time in Dloscow. DI. Trotsky, who is in good health, remains at Vyernyi. DI. Naumoff, DI. Safaroff, DI. Vardin, and DI. Vucobitch, will ho reinstated only when they have fully recanted. -