GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

(United Press Association.—ByElectrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON POLICE SCANDAL. LONDON, July 17. ■ Sir Wm. Joynson Hicks (Home Min“''vister) announced in the House of Comi;;,inons that no proceedings will be taken by the Government against the Hyde Park constables in Miss Savidge’s case. MINISTER RESIGNS. SUVA, July 18. /' Rev. MacDonald, Chairman of the Methodist Mission, Fiji, has resigned provisionally, owing to a difference over policy with the Australian headquarters. It is rumoured that the trouble may be amicably settled by the Methodist Commission which comes to Fiji from Sydney in August on general mission affairs. AUSTRALIAN LOAN. LONDON, July 17. The poor subscription to the loan, whereof the underwriters have been left with eighty-seven per cent, is attributed to the general dullness of the Stock Exchange, and fears that the New York money rates arc going higher; also large blocks of the last New York-Anstralinn loan are being offered here at eighty-seven per cent. DRIVER’S ERROR, LONDON, July 17. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict in the Darlington smash of 20th June to the effect that it was duo to the driver’s error of judgment in misreading the signal.

FISHERMEN’S REPORT. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) OSLO, July 17.' A party of fishermen told the Admiralty that they discovered on Bear Island plateau, two wheel' tracks in eighty feet of snow, leading to the edge of a cliff above the sea. On the edge of the cliff they found a piece of fur coat, a fur cap and fragments of wood.' The Admiralty are investigating whether it is connected with Amundsen. MEXICAN PRESIDENT’S DEATH. I ■ THE ASSASSIN.

Australian Press Assn.—United Service (Received this dav at 1.30 p.m.l MEXICO CITY, July 17. The assassin is a young man named Juan Escapoulario. He approached Obregon pretending to show him some newspaper cartoons and fired from a few feet. Death was instantaneous.