GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) “CATAPULT” 3IAIL. LONDON, Aug. 27. The British Post Office, recognising tho success of the (French liner lie de France aeroplane mail (as cabled on August 23rd), is accepting mail for America by that service, marked “Catapult Air Mail,” and is charging half a crown per ounce, in addition to the ordinary postage rate. WIRELESS ROYALTY REDUCTIONS. LONDON, Aug. 27. Before a Patents Office Tribunal, 3lr Browne, Wireless Company sought a compulsory license under the 3larconi Patents. The plaintiffs contended that the radio manufacturers generally were prejudiced by the unreasonable royalties, which prevented them from competing with the home made sets.

The tribunal made an order for a reduction of the existing royalties on certain valve holders from 12s 6d each to ten per cent of the wholesale selling price. LOWER BIRTH RATE.

DEATHS AND SUICIDES INCREASE LONDON, Aug. 27. Statistics for 1927 show that the births, in England were ICO per ten thousand of the population. This is the lowest rate on record. The previous lowest was 177 births per 10,000 in the last year of the war, namely, 19IS.

The deaths were 123 per 10,000. This is the highest number since 1922. The infantile deaths were seven per cent-, which, with one exception, equalled the lowest recorded. The cancer deaths constituted a new record. The influenza deaths were the worst since the great 1918-19 epidemic. The suicides equalled the record. A special table indicates an alarming increase in the suicides by certain disinfectants and by coal gas. The deaths due to motor cycle accidents totalled 940, as compared with 543 in 1925. The motor ear deaths for the same years were 1292 and 987. BRITISH MIGRATION. REPORT OF AN INVESTIGATOR. LONDON, Aug. 27. Captain I. R. 3turphy, of the Indian Army Reserve, lias arrived at Liverpool, after making an eight months’ tour of Western* Australia on which he is reporting to the British and the Indian Governments. _ \ Captain Murphy criticised the inm « gration methods. He pointed out that one hundred persons who were on the same ship as lie had returned disgusted. He claimed that the Australian authorities in London have failed to warn the migrant's of tho country’s peculiar hardships. “It is useless,” said Captain 3lurphy, “for Britons to go to West Australia without capital.’ There is already ljiuch unemployment there and it is likely to increase. The country is not sufficiently developed to absorb more migrants.”

Captain 3lurpliy claims that the immigration of Southern Europeans should he temporarily stopped throughout Australia, ill order to give Britons a chance. POLISH RAILWAYS. WARSAW, Aug. 28. The Polish Cabinet has ratified the concession to tho Harriman Coy. of America, to improve the Polish railways.

A FATAL PRESENT. WARSAW, August 27. A soldier posted five hand grenades to his parents, suggesting that the contents of the parcel would he useful for fishing. While the puzzled recipients were examining the gift one grenade exploded, killing both parents and severely damaging the house. TOWING OF DOCK. ADEN, August 28. The two first sections of the Singapore dock have put hack owing to monsoons. The tug Indus met with a collision while towing the dock. Repairs will delay the progress for ten days. JAPS IN MANCHURIA. fßeeeived this dav at, 9.30 a.m.) TOKIO, Aug. 28. The Government has decided, in consideration of restored Manchuria, it will recall 2000 troops.