GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

United Preßs Association.—By Electri* Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW DEVELOPMENT. LONDON, August 22, Tho “Daily Express” is Hie first paper in the world to attempt triplepublication. It announces that in addition to its Manchester edition, it now intends to publish in Glasgow. There, has been a most up-to-date plant installed at Glasgow to produce the “Daily Express” with additional Scottish news. Tlie enterprise adds four hundred employees to the staff of the paper, and £IO,OOO to tho year’s payroll, which is a practical answer to Mr Baldwin s appeal to the employers to find work for unemployed- The (“Daily ,'Ex/press” circulation, already 1,476,283 has increased hv 310,000 during the year. * AIOTOR CYCLES FOR BULL FIGHTERS. MADRID, August 23. It is announced that a motor cycle, instead of horses, will for the first time be used in the hull ring on August 26th. The experiment will be tried at Pontevidra, Galacia. M successful the Spanish Society for the Protection of Animals will ask for the substitution of motor cycles for horses at future hull fights. MUTINY ON SHIP. LONDON, Aug. 23. “Have a revolution of crew. On arrival must discharge Greek sailors revolutionists.” This was the wireless message which St. Catherine s Point received from the steamer “Akropolis,” en route from Rotterdam to Cardiff! which was then thirteen miles off tlie Isle of "Wight. Neither the Admiralty nor the Dockyards received any call for assistance. It is presumed that the Captain is proceeding to Cardiff, where he will he landing the malcontents. A AfOTOR CAR COAIPANY. LONDON, August 23. Preliminary arrangements are being made to form a Werry Engines Patent Company, with a capital of half a million, for the purpose of building seven horse-power light motor cars to sell at £BO sterling.