GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

Australian Press Assn.—United Service KELLOGG PACT. PARIS, July 26. The Kellogg Pact will be signed here on 27th. August. LONDON, July 26. Stephens, representing the New Zealand Fruit Board, held a conference with representatives of the New Zealand Shipping Companies and obtained a promise for 1929' season alternatively of three steamers with a capacity for 20,000 eases of apples apiece, direct shipment to Rotterdam and Hamburg on two vessels of 26,000 tons apiece. It is expected the Rotterdam steamers will carry the usual shipment of honey. ROYAL GARDEN PARTY. (Received this day at 11.5 a.m.) / LONDON, July 26. There was glorious weather lor their Majesties garden party at Buckingham Palace. There were six thousand guests. The following were personally presented:—Australian, Sir and Lady Nathan, Senators and Mesdames McLaclian and C. E. Merrett. New Zealanders—Lady Gunson, Sir George Richardson and Hon. J. A. Hanan. AFGHAN REFORMS. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) DELHI, July 26. Reforms instituted since the European tour of the Afghan King announced that polygamy being the chief cause of corruption in the country, Government officials taking a second wife will be dismissed. Action is lining taken in regard to those who have already done so. ... ' Young Tsehsin, Governor of Sin King Province, Turkestan, has been assassinated at Urunichi, the capital, by revolutionists. . Thirteen were killed in a collision between a bus and railway engine near Triehunopoly. A crowd of strikers attacked the engine-driver. The police opened fire, injuring four.

PORTUGUESE ACTION: (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) t LISBON, July 26. As a result of the revolt officers, non-coms and civil servants participating therein have been dismissed from the service and are liable to deporta--7 tion to the colonies. Officers who did not ,oppose the revolt have been placed on half pay. Persons in possession oi explosives are being deported. TENNIS. LONDON, July 26. At Le Zouto concluding day, against the Belgians, Cummings defeated Toassaiii'b. 'Crawford defeated Washer, s Cummings and Moon defeated Vancleibernden and Ewbank, the Australians thereby winning all. the remaining rubbers; AN ALPINE CLIMB. GENEVA, July 26. Extraordinary nerve and splendid endurance was displayed in the ascent of Matterhorn by a distinguished Cambridge climber, Winthrop Young, who lost a leg during the war, above the knee. He wears a metal peg limb. He rode a mule to a hut at 10,820 ft. At itliout sleep he started at ten o’clock in the evening and reached the summit at seven in the morning, and descended to the hut in six hours, a most hazardous experience. It was moonlight for the six hours mule descent from tjie hut to Zermatt. Alpinists describe it as the greatest feat in the Matterhorn’s history. Z' l THE MONTECEVANTES. t j BEING PATCHED UP. (Received this dav at 12.25 d.id.l W MOSCOW, July 26. An extraordinary ovation from passengers : greeted the Ivrasfiin on ar- ' " riving at the Montecervaritcs. Divers discovered ' a bole and water in the hold. This is now being pumped out and tlie hole is being patched up.