GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 1 August 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

(United Press Association.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) DARING BURGLARS. LONDON, July 30. A Paris message states that despite armed warders’ nightlong patrol, three barefooted burglars, supposedly exconvicts. entered the County Prison at Melun early this morning and removed a safe from the Governor’s office containing £IOOO in warders’ wages and prison maintenance funds. They scaled the wall per medium of a ladder taken from an adjacent building, and then sawed through iron window bars. They hauled and lowered the safe with ropes, and escaped in a motor car. The safe was found open in a forest seven miles away.

WAGER CONTRACTS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 31. Edgar AVallace, the novelist, won a friendly action brought by the Jockey Club to recover forfeits for a void nomination at Newmarket races, wherein Wallace’s horse did not run. Justice Clauson held the forfeits were not enforceable, as the contracts were wager contracts under the Gaming Act. RUSSIAN LOAN. MOSCOW, July 31. Reflecting difficulty in obtaining credit abroad, the Soviet announces a domestic lottery loan of £50,000,009 at five per cent. TITULESCU RESIGNS. BUCHAREST, July 31. Titulescu has resigned and is returning to London as Roumanian Minister. A COMING WEDDING. (Received this day at 8.50 a.m ) LONDON, July 31. Nancy, only daughter of Sir Arthur and Lady Robinson, is marrying Francis Huntley Griffiths, of Ceylon, at St. Paul’s, Knightbridge, on 12th Sept. ELSIE MCKAY FUND. this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 31. Lord Inehenpe is desirous that the Elsie McKay fund of half a million sterling, which he and liis family gave to the nation, should not be the object of complaint by any other, sufferer from the trans-Atlantic disaster, wherein she lost her life and has given the Chancellor of the Exchequer a further ten thousand to meet such complaints as the Chancellor deems fit. The Chancellor has handed over the amount to the Public Trustee for administration accordingly.