GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

' GUNBOAT DISASTER. Australian Press Assn.—United Service (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) BOGOTA (Columbia), June 18. Reports from Barranquilla state that fifty-one persons are missing and believed to huvTT'perished in an explosion which destroyed the Colombia gunboat Hercules at mid-night on Saturday on the Magdalena River. The majority of the victims were drowned and the bodies devoured by alligators. Of the seventy-three aboard twenty-two' were rescued. TRADE COMMISSIONER. LONDON, June 18. Mr Beale (New Zealand Trade Commissioner) visited thirty-five factories and interviewed “three hundred manufacturers. He received several deputations asking for larger supplies of New Zealand butter, which is greatly esteemed in the north of England and Scotland. WHEAT QUALITY DEPRECIATION. QUEBEC, June 18. Speaking before the Canadian Seed Growers’ Association, Dr Robert Magill (Secretary of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange) gave' alarming figures on the j lowering quality of Canadian grain in 1927. The crop which was inspected at Winnipeg yielded only one car of No. 1 hard wheat from 350,000 cars inspected. The total wheat inspected in Winnipeg yielded only one per cent of / number ono and northern only 0 or 7 per cent of number two. The northern situation was the worst that ever developed. ~

MRS PANCKHURST’S FUNERAL. (Received this day at 12.25 p.mA LONDON, Juno 18. Leaders of the Women's Movement, including Mrs Baldwin, Lady Astor, Mesdames Despaird, Pethiek, Lawrence, Laura Knight and Flora Drummond attended Mrs Panckliurst’s funeral at St. John’s, Westminster, close to the scene of the stormiest episode in the suffragette campaign ; also scores of elderly women wearing! brooches and symliols, who suffered imprisonment, some even wearing old campaign clothes. There were touching scenes at the graveside at Prompt on Cemetery, where €hris:tabe] Sylvia Panekhurst watched the coffin lowered as a woman dipped a large purple, green and white flag to the earth. ~r : A COMTNG VISITOR, VANCOUVER, June 19. Lord Lovat (head of the Overseas Settlement) who is to tour Canada this suifnmej - to confer' with Federal and Provincial authorities on immigration problems, sails for Australia on Sept. 19th. -