GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1928, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

SHOCKING DOUBLE MURDER. r Jnited Press Association.—By Electrit Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, September 22. Following the discovery of the shallowly buried bodies of an elderly couple, Thomas and Mrs Kirby, of Old Tliornaby Green, by Mrs Stead, of Norton, near Stockton-on-Tees, while seeking soil for her plants, the police are searching for the suspect and a motor ear. Mrs Stead noticed a mound in a lonely lane with a wrist and a coat sleeve protruding. She informed her son-in-law. The police exhumed the bodies. Kirby had been wounded in the head and was still bleeding. The wife had apparently been strangled. Her boor was discovered in an adjacent ditch Tlie police prevented hundreds of inquisitive people flocking to- the scene. The woman victim was formerly i widow and married Kirby in 1925. He was a- market trader and she was a prosperous tripe dresser and keenly interested in public affairs. The police forced an entry to Kirby’s locked house and ascertained the couple had been murdered there, and then conveyed throe miles to the burial place, apparently in a car which was garaged on the premises.

POLITICAL PLEASANTRIES. September 24. Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd George, speakinf at the Cheltenham bye-election, declar ed: “Mr Baldwin (Prime Minister) inot a driver, and that is what is want ed now.” “ If he were a driver tlie first thin' he would do would be to get rid of his team. Rt. Hon. W. Churchill, who i a capable Chancellor of Exchequer ca drive, but he always drives on to tin rocks.”

OBITUARY. PARIS, September 22. Obituary.—Sanvat Pasha. A WHEAT SHORTAGE. LONDON, Sept. 21. Reports via Riga state that owing to the failure of the crops in the U.kaine, hicli is Russia’s granary, ‘affecting three million peasants, the Soviet is feeding from 250,000 to- 300,000 Deop-le, and is allocating money for cattle, fodder, seed and grain. Tw-' hundred thousand tons 'of seed anr grain were purchased in America and distributed, but much o-f it has Been eafep by starving people. Meantime there is a plentiful har vost. in Siberia, but tbe railway is inadequate to transport it westward anr 1 much of it is being damaged or si-ole/* ch route

THE ALBANIAN KING. LONDON, September 23. A Tirana message states Kir Ro-beic Hodgeson, the British Minister, ha* formally informed Albania that tlie Rri tish Government has formally recognised Zogul, wiio was recently pro claimed King. A FASCIST MEASURE, ROME, Sept. 22. -At a meeting of the Fascist Qrranu Council approved of a bill authorisin': the Government to take steps to brinj. into force the Workers’ Charter, which applies to all of the workers in Italy.