GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

SLATER’S APPEAL. CONAN DOYLE TO FIND CQSTS Australian Press Assn.—United Servico LONDON, September 18. The Scottish Office is refusing to pay the costs of Oscar Slater’s appeal (which was-succcssful) against his conviction for murder for which he served a long sentence. The cost amounted to about £ISOO. The public subscription in aid of Slater amounted to £7GO. Sir A. Conan Doyle, having guaranteed £IOOO, will have to find £3OO. Ho expresses the opinion that the Scottish Office should pay tlie lot, as its stupidity created the situation. THE NEW FILMS. LONDON, September 18. The so-called “Talky-Soundy” films which carry their own musical and vocal accompaniment, are now likely to throw two-thirds of the cinema musicians out of work in Britain in the next two years. It is estimated that another fifty thousand musicians will shortly be thrown out of America, where the “Talky-Soundies” are thus effecting an economy of at least one million sterling annually.

The Musicians’ i Union ■ of JBritain where more than three thousand orchestras have been brought into existence by the cinemas, are endeavouring to obtain a guarantee that at least one-third of the musicians who are now in employment shall be retained by the industry, to supplement the tinned music or to deputise when the machinery goes out of order. BYRD’S SCHOONER, (Received this day at 8 a.m.l BALBOA, September 18. Commander Byrd’s South Polo schooner, Caty of New- York, took on an unexpected member of the crew, Lyle Womack, when it sailed for Dunedin to-night. He is the estranged husband of Miss Ruth Elder, the aviatrix, now a movie star.

LQRD DURHAM. i 'LONDON, September 18. Obituary.—Lord Durham, aged 73 years. N.Z. TRADER LAUNCHED. LONDON, September 18. Messrs Swan, Hunter’s have launched the Port Alma, the last of four vessels for the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, being built for the New Zealand trade. CAPE PREMIER’S APOLOGY. CAPETOWN, September 18. In connection with Klerksdorp - ir.ci- - dent (cabled yesterday) the Premier ■telegraphed the Hon. Sastri his heartfelt apologies for “ the unwarrantable insult to you and your country.” He condemned the incident as “ the cowardly conduct of these hooligans.”