GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

A GENEROUS GIFT.

(United Service.)

(Received this day at 9.30 a.m). LONDON, July 15,

A munificent gift by G. S. Iteade, at present residing in New Zealand, enables tho building of a new naval school at Holbrook, Suffolk, where a thousand boys' are at present being educated. The Royal Hospital at Greenwich will remove when the new building is completed. The buildings and equipment will cost nearly a million. Reado 'is defraying the cost of the buildings, besides presenting a property of 850 acres on which he formerly lived, that belonged to his ancestors for generations. It is given in appreciation of the Navy’s gallantry in waitime.

Tho Admiralty has now contracted buildings which will take four years to complete. This will enable the MacPherson collection to be eventually Installed at Queen’s House, Greenwich, where the school is at present established.

ALPINE) TRAGEDY,

LONDON, July 15

The “Daily News” Geneva correspondent says a tragedy occurred in Zermatt district, the worst in twenty-five years, four being killed. Watchers from tho hotel on Gornergrat witnessed every phase. It was even ix>ssible through a telescope to observe three alpenstocks in the snow and the trace of blood where, the climbers had fallen. The victims were tho French tourists, Lebacque, Degegard, Guilbert and Langlois. • They started early on Friday to climb Breithorn and remained for hours at a spot the same distance, up. Finally they made a supreme effort and reached the summit. The first man lost his footing and fell a thousand feet into a crevasse, dragging two companions. The third soon ■disappeared into an abyss. Relief columns went immediately to search and found all dead.

OUNARD COMMODORE’S DRAMATIC DEATH. (Received this cloy at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, July IG. Sir James Charles, Commander of the Aquitania and Commodore of the Cunnrd Line, died under dramatic circumstances a,t tho end of his 728th. Atlantic crossing, after which he had intended to retire. He became ill when entering Cherbourg bind insisted staying on tho bridge till the ship , was ■berthed, when internal hemorrhage developed. Crossing to Southampton, he arrived unconscious and died in a few minutes. Ho was knighted for war service and carried thousands of troops to Franco from America. SPANISH POLITICS. MADRID, July 14. General Prime de Rivera (Director of Spain) has returned. Questioned by journalists regarding the recently-dis-covered plot, he said that the whole business was finished. Small groups laid tried to stir up trouble in Barcelona, Valencia, and other districts in connection with the inauguration of tho new Canfrane Tunnel through the Pyrenees mountains, hut they were speedily crushed and their ringleaders are now in custody.