GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

Australian. Press Assn.—United Service SIR ALEXANDER GODLEY. TO BE GOVERNOR OF GIBRALTAR. LONDON. June 24. . It is understood that General Sir ". Alexander Godiey will succeed General Sir diaries Monro as Governor of Gibraltar in September. General Godiey. who commanded the New Zealand Forces from 1910 to 1914, and the New Zealand Expeditionary Force all through the war, was Military Secretary to the Secretary for War from 1920 to 1922, Command-er-in-Chief of the British Army on the Rhine from 1922 to 1924, * Comniniider-m-Chicf. of the Southern - ; Command from 1924 till this yeSr. —' TAXATION ON TEA AND PETROL. LONDON, June 26. MG ion tho House of Commons was in Committee' on the Finance Bill, Mr Ben Riley (Labour Dewsbury) moved an amendment to reduce the tea duty from fourpence per pound to one penny per pound. Ho said he did so because the present impost did not help Empire preference. Tho amendment was rejected by 229 to 117. Mr Philip Snowden moved to reduce the petrol tax to one penny per gallon, saying that this tax would fall heaviest on commercial vehicles. It would increase the cost of distribution and would nullify the benefits of the rate relief measures. Mr Churchill replied that commercial motor ears were virtually subsidised, as compared with the railways, as they wore not bearing the expense of damage done to roads. He saidjthe tax burden on tlie industry was much less than the rates. The amendment was negatived by 237 to 115."

ROYAL LETTERS. TO LATE CZAR AND OTHER® LONDON, -Juno 26. The Daily Express states that it has recovered from Bolshevik ’hands hundreds of intimate letters written from 1870 to 1915 by the- King and Queen of England and other crowned heads of Europe to the Empress Maria the mother of tlie murdered Czar. Tho letters were smuggled out of. Russia with great difficulty. The Daily Express handed them to King George, who will distribute them to the writers where possible. The letters include several of the King’s to “Darling Aunt Minin’,” and signed in an uncertain, boyish hand “Georgie.”

ANGLICAN CHURCH. LONDON, June 26. In the House of Commons the Prime Minister, Mr S. Baldwin, replying to a question on the matter front Mr S. Tliuntie (Labour, Shoreditch) said that he was not in a position to make any statement regarding the removal of the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords. Mr Thurtlo remarked: “Do not re-' cent events show that there is no confidence in the bishops?” v This elicited cries of “Order!”

COMPANY MEETING. LONDON, June 26. Shareholders of Baldwins Ltd. passed a resolution reducing the capital from eight millions to 4,213,568. Sir Robert Horne presiding, said tho Company’s present plight was largely . due to the generous response the Coin- r pan.v made to tlie Government’s urgent requests during the war. They had extended the plant to meet the nation’s necessities, only to find when peace arrived that they had burdened themselves with capital’charges which showed little or no return in revenue. One branch /built at a great cost ing the war was responsible for a capital loss of approximately a million. V

A DIFFICULT POSITION. OSLO, June 26. A wireless from the Quest expresses the opinion that it is impossible to save the remainder of Nobile’s party, also Lundborg, for three or four weeks, after which it is hoped the ice will break up sufficiently for seaplanes to alight. Tlie party is provisioned for a month and other food can he dropped _ from aeroplanes. Hopes of finding Mariano and his companions are fading daily, flights over the places they could have reached having disclosed no trace.