GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1928, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

HUnited Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) PItOFESSOR BICKERTON. CONDON, August 30. Professor Bickerton, who is eightyseven years ctf age, and exceedingly frail in health, is overjoyed at his Canterbury College appointment as professor emeritus. He said: “It will give me a new lease of life.” BRITISH ELECTIONS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 29. Exceptional interest attaches to the political party conferences which have been arranged for the autumn, as they will be the last annual meetings of the kind before the general election. The Conservative Party executive met yesterday to consider arrangements for its conference, at which upwards of 1500 delegates will attend, represent-

ing the organisations in every Parliamentary constituency in England aim Wales. The conference will bo held at * Great Yarmouth and will begin on September 26. A mass meeting will be addressed by the Prime Minister on the following day, and other members ol Parliament will engage in a platform campaign comprising a series of meetings throughout the eastern counties. The other political parties are also actively preparing for next year’s election campaign, which has added importance owing to the addition ot nearly ■ 5,250,000 voters to the electorate, as the result of the recent extension of the franchise to women of twenty-one. Great Yarmouth will also he the scene of the Liberal Party conference, ,'which lias been fixed for October 11 and 12. The agenda for the conference comprises about twenty resolutions, covering the whole field of national policy, which will be submitted by the executive to afford authoritative guidance to candidates and others and to form the basis subsequently df a general manifesto to the nation.

FEMALE BONES IN A BAG. LONDON, Aug. 31

The police are investigating a mysterious discovery?'consisting of a few charred bones in a woman’s handbag at Kingston. Sir J. Spilsbury has pronounced them portions of the kneelione and jawborno of a woman or a girl, parte of a torn photograph were also in the bag. They have been traced through a photographer as those of a young Kingston woman. It has since been disclosed that a quantity of woman’s underclothing was found in the men’ section of the Kingston baths the same day.

~ CAPTAIN COOK BICENTENARY. »_• LONDON, Aug. 31. The Captain Cook Bicentenary celebrations, though the actual date would be October 27th., have been fixed Jor climatic reasons, for September Bth. There will be great ceremonies in Yorkshire, where there will be a pilgrimage to Cook’s birthplace, Marton, and at the school at Great Ayton, there will be a play featuring Cook’s life at Whitby. Arrangements are being made to rally Australians and New Zealanders to participate in the London function on Octobe 27th. when a wreath will he laid on Cook’s Statue at Admiralty Arch. Messrs Baldwin and Amerv, Sir Batho Bridgeman, and the agentsgeneral have been invited. There also will be a line of beacons lit from Whitby to Great Ayton..

AVALANCHE OF BEGGING LETTERS. 9 Australian Press Assn.—United Service

(Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 31. The millionairess, Lady Houston, is

■ bewildered at receiving an avalanche H of lagging letters from all over the world, written in every language, more {especially German. Investigations prove more than three in every four to be imposters. The avalanche is a weariness of flesh. Photographs of men offering'marriage constantly arrive. Lady Houston sometimes dons a shabby coat and roams Hampstead Heath in the early morning, talking to tramps. “They think I’m one of them and we have very interesting talks,” she said.

AIR BRIDGEAIAN RETIRING. LONDON, Aug. 31

Air Bridgeman informed Oswestry Conservative Association that he would he unable to stand at next election as he was suffering from ft painful form of arthritis.

NEW WHITE STAR LINER. LONDON, August 31

The White Star line announces that an Atlantic liner of 69,000 tons is being built at Harland and Wolff yards, Belfast. It will exceed the Majestic by four thousand tons, and the Leviathan hv six thousand tons. The cost is six million sterling. This is interpreted as a challenge to the rumoured new gigantic Cu Harder.

AUSSTNG HECTOR RETURNING

LONDON, August 31. Rev. Frank Hutchinson lias ail' to the Essex “ Chronicle ” that he is returning to Doddinghurst. y