GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

v "United Press Association.—By Electrio j ... Telegraph.—Copyright.) LEFT TEN MILLIONS. LONDON, August 3. The estate of the late Sir AA’. Wills (tobacco magnate) has been provision- orally sworn at ten millions sterling. LONDON, August 4. The Exechequer will benefit to the extent of four millions from the late Sir AA r . Wills’ estate of ten millions sterling under the maximum death duty rate of forty per cent. After legacies are paid to relatives, employees, and charities, the residuary estate will be left between his children. LOSS OF CRUISER, LONDON, August 4. A court marital found Lieut.-Com-nuuuler Thomas Ramsay Beatty guilty of negligently suffering the cruiser “Dauntless” to be .stranded near f ~~ Halifax, Nova Scotia, on July 2. He -- has been dismissed from his ship, and severely reprimanded. BISHOP TO MARRY. LONDON, August 4. The Bishop of Norwich, who is 6-5 years of age, announces his engage---, ment to Miss Joan Ryder, whose age is 25 years. She had been acting as the Bishop’s secretary for the last four months. Interest was added to the announcement by wide publicity having lately been given to the fact that there are nine bachelor Bishops in the Church of England, namely, those of Norwich, London (Dr Ingram, who recently visited Australia), Southwark, Truro, Ripon Worcester, Oxford, and Salisbury; and, finally, the most significant of all, Dr Cosmo Lang, the Archbishop elect of Canterbury.

Miss AA’inifred Graham, the novelist, . in entering on a public discussion anent the bachelor Bishops, said that “ Bachelorhood is a disease that is spreading. -The Church is setting a bad example, and some protest must «- be made. AA’hy are they bachelors? If they think that marriage is a handicap in their career or in their intellectual development, why are the Bishops always the first to cry 1 Hands off the home!’ and to talk of the sanctity of home life, and to advocate large families? AYliat foolish creatures these Bishops are.” ' She also remarked that the bachelor had no one to point- out his faults, and no one hut his wife dare tell him that his sermons are over long, or that he is vain and pompous. LITHUANIAN MUNITIONS LOST, r' r LONDON, Aug. 5. < In spite of Lithuanian secrecy; it is V believed that the explosion of the chief Lithuanian Arsenal at Olida, as oabled on Aug. 2nd., was very serious . and that none were killed and sixty were injured. It is believed that practically all the country’s munitions are destroyed. Treachery is suspected. POLAND’S POLICY. AVARSAAY, Aug. 4. The paper Polania reports that tho Government of Poland has given the Harrimnn group of financiers the right to work for twenty, years the Disriiark, __ Laura and Korrowitz Foundries,' being the hulk of the former German metallurgical industry in Upper Silesia. The group is forming a ten million sterling holding company, and it has undertaken to employ only Poles and Americans, where formerly many Germans worked. ‘

The German press is denouncing the agreement. GERMAN ATTITUDE. (Received this day at 9 a.m.) BERLIN, Aug. 4. . A strong declaration by Chancellor Muller 'against German participation in colonial activities followed his reported opposition to the German acceptance of a colonial mandate. Germany primarily has no money, he said, for the institution of profitable colonial policy. Moreover they at present were enjoying a high ]jpstige among colonial people striving for independence. For the very reason that she was no longer engaged in exploitation of other nations it was better for Germany to take no part in man- - dates-of territories, of the mandate-: - commission, to win respect , and thus improve her trade. CHINESE GENERAL’S FUNERAL. ' - TOKYO, Aug. 4. Impressive four days final funeral services at Mukden of Generalissimo Cliangtsolin have started, Foreign representatives paying their last respects on Sunday. The body was laid to rest in the native village of Kazshantze. Meantime efforts to solve the mystery of his death have apparently been abandoned. Japanese asserting Chinese delegates refused to sign a joint report of tlie investigation of the explosion which wrecked Changtsolin’s train on 6th April, and indicating further investigation was s dropped at tho request of file Chinese, since clues, were discovered pointing to traitors, among Changtsolin’s own retainers. It is stated the investigation was dropped at Changhsuehliang’s own request.

OPEL ROCKET CAR FAILURE. BERLIN, August 5. The fourth test of the Opel Rocket car was carried out secretly in the early morning on a section of line lent by the Hanover railway authorities. A car equipped with twenty-nine rockets, dashed along the rails and blew up with a deafening report, and it was totally destroyed. The authorities have forbidden further experiments. A second car equipped with thirty rockets was not allowed to start. BRITISH MEAT SHORTAGE. LONDON, Aug. 4. The Smithfield Market Superintendent says that the butchers are alarmed at the present shortage of meat from the Argentine and from Australia. The July arrivals- were 2017 tons below those of last July. The recent heat wave, however, reduced the demand for meat to a minimum, or else the prices would have reached high levels.