GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

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APIA, July 7. Reserved judgment was delivered t to-day in a li.bel suit in which Alfred McCarthy, Crown Solicitor and formerly Acting Inspector of Police, here, proceeded against the Samoa Guardian claiming £IOOO for the allegation 1 that plaintiff apologised to Tumasese r for an attempted arrest authorised by t McCarthy. 5 The Chief Judge gave a verdict t for the plaintiff for a hundred ster--5 ling with costs. : murderer attempts suicide. 1 LONDON, July 7. A message from Marseilles reports that Rey is hunger striking after suicide attempts. . The police are considering forcible ' feeding. [ 5 BRITISH TOTE BILL. STONEWALLED BY LABOUR. LONDON, July G. In the Commons, the last chance to--5 day of finishing the Tote Bill as a private measure was successfully stonewalled by Lnlwurites. Ijts fate now rests on whether the Government will make it an official measure before the recess. The Sneaker firstly rejected a question front Mr MacDonald whether it could proceed, since it was “materially altered since the second reading. The the House, by 144 votes to 104, rejected Mr Rliys Davies’ amendment to re-commit it to a selected committee. i Next, a Labour amendment sought trol of the Jockey Club, or National Hunt Committee, instead of the racecourse betting control board. This was rejected and the closure applied by 143 to 111. Mr Compton moved the next stonewalling amendment allowing the totalisator for any form of racing. This was rejected by 14G to 113. The time had expired, and the debate was adjourned. MAHARA OUTRAGE. COLOMBO, July 7. All the accused in the Maliara outrage were found guilty and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment for being members of an unlawful assembly and mischief, and seven years for attempting to commit culpable homicide. A SEAMAN’S IDENTITY. LONDON, July 7. Commenting on the identity of Brodsky, alias Marlin, keeper of the International Seamens’ Club at Sydney, Mr Havelock Wilson says he found a sailor named Marlin, shipped from New York aboard the King David. He gave his address as the London Sailors’ Home, but had no steamer passport, and had another name, Lciostock, when he disembarked at Cairns. Mr Wilson says that Marlin is not mentioned in the recoins of the London Sailors’ Home, and suggests inquiries should ho made with relation to his passport. LOEWEXSTKTX MYSTERY. LONDON, July 7. Astonishing rumours .are current regarding Loowenstein. Tt is asserted that in the first place lie never entered the plane, and in the second, that he disappeared when he landed at Dunkirk, with the mails for Paris The “accident’" version is generally dismissed as improbable, and the widely accepted theorv is that at a moment of exaltation or under the ci nil nonce of an inexplicable hralinstorm he threw himself from the machine. There are others who hold the belief that he either slipped away before the aeroplane left Croydon, or that when the pilot hurriedly landed in the belief that Loewenstein had fallen out, the financier got out unobserved, and drove off in a waiting car. GERMAN PAYMENTS. LONDON, July 7. The German reparations payments to Australia for the year just totalled £619,814.