GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) EARL HAIG’S ESTATE. LONDON, July 25. Earl Haig left a personal estate of £12,248 and real of £171,334. THE TOTE BILL. LONDON, July 25. The House of Lords passed the second reading of the Tote Bill without division. In an amusing supporting speech, Lord Desborough alluded to the racecourse bookmaker and their litter. He often listened in bygone days to the blandishments of bookmakers, boasting they had denied the right before with Rothschild, who on those occasions must have had noisy party. They professed that he confided" the winner. If it came off sometimes, those bookmakers were missing.' AA'e were passing from Greyhound racing to terriers chasing rats. Next we would have pomeranians chasing white mice. ACCIDENT TO POPE. ROME, Jmly 26. The Pope sustained a slight injury to liis foot while alighting from his motor ear in the Vatican grounds. EMPIRE COMMUNICATIONS. LONDON, July 25. ' “I have every hope, in the near future, of announcing a satisfactory conclusion of tlio merger negotiations,”" said Mr Denison Pender at the Eastern Extension Cable Company’s annual meeting. “It has been an anxious time. If it results in the formation of a merger company, comprising the whole of the Empire’s overseas, telegraphic communications, maintaining our connections with foreign countries, with suitable protection of public rates and a reasonable return for the money, and the mobility and efficiency of service, then " one of the greatest advances in British commercial enterprise will have been achieved, retaining the British Commonwealth’s predominance in world communications.”.'

COST OF RACING. LONDON, July 26. Speaking in .the House of Lords, Lord Derby gave a startling comparison of the cost of racing in England and in France, based on his own experience. Every rneeliorse engaged in England, lie said, had to earn £6-50 in stakes within a year before the year’s expenses were cleared, whereas in France, only £IBO was needed. The difference in the cost to the breeder and the owner was entirely attributable to their being lower entrance fees in France, which the totalisator made possible. The tote also enabled the French Government to place well-bred stallions at the disposal of the breeders country-wide. He instanced his own good luck in purchasing a horse in partnership with Mr Ogden Mills, which won the Grand Prix de Paris. That horse was got by a Government stallion for which either no fee, or a nominal amount, was paid. RAILWAY WAGE CUT. LONDON, July 26. Further conferences of the railway companies and unions have heen adjourned till Friday. The railway companies are anxious ior mrinedinte economies. It is reported that the companies' proposals involve taking about two millions sterling off the raihvaymeu’s earnings. If there is no agreement the companies arc likely to press their claims before the National Wage Board, a procedure which many of the prefer.

EGYPTIAN AIOVE. [“ The Times ” Service.] LONDON, July 25. The “Times” correspondent at Alexandra states it is reported that AVafdist senators and deputies intend assembling on July 28tli and declaring themselves a lawful assembly of parlt, on a similar manner to 1925 when the AVafdists’ two chambers gathered in a hotel at Cairn. EGYPTIAN LEARNING. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) CAIRO, July 26. The Minister of the Interior lias notified Nalias Pasha that he will be held personally responsible for disturbances arising -from any of his party’s meetings and demonstrations. It is certain that the AVafd demonstrations will -consequently be postponed. STRUCK AN ICEBERG. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) OSLO, July 26. The steamer Afontecervarates, with 1500 Germans aboard struck an iceberg. It sent out repeated S.O.S. signals, which the Krassin picked up and sent a diver to inspect the damage. The' Alontecervantes is in no- danger, but it is expected that the Krassin will stand by for a! couple of days. ArOSCOYV, July' 26. While the icebreaker ■ Krassin was heading -for Stavanger, Norway, sho received a radio S.O.S. from the 13,000 ton German steamer Alontecervantes, with 1500 passengers aboard. The Krassin proceeded in the direction of Belsund to give assistance. The Alonte Cervantes danger is not stated. AIEAT SUPPLES. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m). LONDON, July 26. Lord Bradbury, presiding at the Food Council, received a deputation from the London Retail Afeat Traders Association, who pointed out the decrease in supplies of meat from Argentine was due to a deficiency of cattle. The deputation urged the embargo upon importing Continental meat should he removed. Breeding heifers ' should he imported from Canada in order to increase supplies of meat. The Council promised to consider the representations.