GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1928, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

A POLITICAL WINDFALL.

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CAPETOWN, Sept. 21. The Premier’s preliminary speech to

the ' Election campaign is arousing; interest by reason of the anticipation that the profits of Namaqualaud State diamonds will be devoted to irrigation on an extensive scale. It is hoped to dam the Orange, and Val rivers, whero■;by huge areas will be benefited. An aeroplane, brings weekly, a valuable parcel of diamonds to. Alexander Bay. It is reported that approximately five millions sterling have accumulated at Capetown although the Government are disposing of only six' thousand value monthly, so. as not to overstock ' tile market, which recently improved. Mr Hertzog describes Nam a qua land a.s a windfall. TURKISH TEACHING OF NEW ALPHABET. (Times Service). LONDON. Sept. 21. The “Times” correspondent at Cpn- • stantinople says Mustapha Kemal has returned to Angora., after a tour of Northern Territory, the object of which was to instruct .population in the new alphabet. He says he is highly satisfied with the progress. Everybody in Turkey in a few years l will he able to read and write. Orders have been issued that all correspondence throughout Turkey, after October, must employ the new alphabet. The newspapers will be subsidised to assist in the purchase of new printing machines. BIG LANDSLIDE, LONDON, Sept. 22. A serious landslide has occurred on the Isle of Wight. One million and a-half tons of cliff, covering ah area of half a square mile, between Black'gang Chine and Niton, was involved in it. It has buried the Undercliff Drive, a famous beauty spot. There is sixty acres of land gradually moving seaward. Fortunately no houses are involved.

SURGICAL LAMP. -:* ; > n } . : 5 : 1 ■; • ' ■ , COPENHAGEN, Sept,' 21. Professors Neils Bohr and Hansen have .invented a new surgical lamp fourfold the strength of the Einsen Lamp, which hitherto has been used for the treatment of lupus and other skin diseases, thus enabling treatment to be relatively cheap. Moreover, it will reduce the time of treatment from ""•forty minutes to fifteen.

SOCIALIST M.P. : HEIR TO BARONETCY. POSITION OF MR MOSLEY. LONDON, Sept. 22. Ihe newspapers are speculating whether Air Alosley, the Labour member of tlie House of Commons, will carry out his oft-repeated determination to refuse his father’s baronetcy. Legally. Air Alosley cannot avoid tlie secession, but may choose not to use -the title. The controversy that occurred between the baronet and his .Socialist son sometime ago is now recalled. In this the father declared if his son and his daughter-in-law (who is a rich heiress) wanted to do something for thencountry, they had better give up some of they- wealth. The father said: “Aly son has every opportunity, of doing good service to the country. Instead, he is (devoting himself to stirring up spite and discontent. He has not done a decent day’s work in his life. He was horn with a gold spoon in his mouth, and he has lived on the fat ol / the land.”

PA RENTS A lURDERED. LONDON, Sept. 21. “The Times’s” Vienna correspondent reports: A shock has been created by the news that a prominent exhanKer, Ferdinand Hertmaun, had been murdered by his wife, who com.mitted suicide. The sensation - is intensified by the arrest of their sou, Ferdinand, aged sixteen years, who has confessed to committing patricide. Ferdinand detested studies and he desired to become a film actor. Ho knew his father’s life to he insured for £2OOO A post mortem indicates that the son murdered both of his parents.

LONDON BUSINESS AIEN. WHAT ONE OF THEM THINKS. LONDON, Sent. 22. Air Self, a well-known London business man, created a sensation at the Model'll Churchmen’s Conference hv making an outspoken protest against verbiage and arguments of theologicians. Addressing a gathering largely

consisting of Professors, Doctors' and Divines of Oxford and Cambridge, Air Self said; “The business man does not know where lie stands. Aon hate pulled down the obvious thing in which he trusted and have put nothing in it-. place. There is too much Oxford and Cambridge about this conference. The business man is aghast at the language of your papers. The hearts of men in the business world are full of hunger and desire for religion.” This dramatic outburst was greeted with applause,