GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

"United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) COOLIES KILLED AT FIJT. SUVA, Aug. 16. Two Indians w<Jre killed when a landslide occurred this morning at tlie reclamation harbour works at Suva, ’ they being buried under falling stones. GERMANY’S NEW STEAMERS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 16. The Norddeutscher Lloyd’s 46,000tonner Europa was launched at Hamburg. It is Germany’s largest since the war. A sister-ship,-, the Bremen, is launching to-day. Both are for the trans-Atlantic service. The floating palaces carry 3200 and cost nearly three millions sterling each. The speed expected is 26J knots, the fastest afloat, hut if Germany recaptures the blue ribbon of the Atlantic from the Mauretania, she is unlikely to hold it long as the White Star’s tonner building at Belfast, as well as a projected Cunarder are expected to r be rivals to the Europa and Bremen.

LEAD OUTPUT CONFERENCE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 16. The “Financial News” understands a conference is being held in London in mid September to discuss the advisability of controlling the output of the lead of the world. The interests represented include Australia.

THE DRY LAW. HONOLULU, Aug. 15,

The Australian delegates eagerly questioned the Americans about the effects of prohibition in the United States, whose representatives declared that prohibition had noticeably benefited the working classes. They said the reports of the so-called hip flask drinking among young people were greatly exaggerated.

SHIP AGROUND. NEW YORK, August 16. A message ifrom San Pedro, California, states the Panama mail liner, Ecuador, grounded at Cape Lazarus on the -Mexican coast early to-day. There ■ were a hundred passengers on board. • and seventy-five of a crew. The vessel was hound for Central American ports. There are no details. Two steamships are speeding to the rescue.

TO FLY TO SWEDEN. NEW YORK, Aug. 17

A message from Cochrane, Ontario, states that Bert Hassell (pilot) and Parker Cramer (navigator), arrived here this afternoon from Rockford, Illinois, where they hopped off early in the morning on a three stage monoplane flight for Stockholm. They leave on Friday for Mount Evans, Greenland, and thence to Reykjavik, Iceland.