GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1928, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. BIG LIBRARY SCHEME, (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, October 1. * Conditionally upon Cambridge University raising the remaining quarter of a million sterling to complete a new library scheme, costing half a million sterling, the Rockefeller Foundation International Board has granted £700,000 to assist in the do velopment of physical and biological studies at Cambridge University, including a quarter of a millon sterling for the new library. CAPE MAGNATE’S GIFT. CAPETOWN, October 2. Sir Abe Bailey has donated £SOOO yearly in perpetuity to the Royal Institute of International Affairs. In a letter to the Prince of Wales, Sir A. Bailey writes: “I am impelled to advance the ideas for which Cecil Rhodes stood. The nations of the Empire, by learning to lb i together in peace, might teach a lesson to the rest of the world.” He concludes that he feels the work of the Institute is vital t the present needs of the Empire.

HAVELOCK WILSON. ADVICE TO LABOUR LEADERS. LONDON, October 7. The President of the Seamen’s Union, Mr Havelock Wilson, had a great reception at Newport, in Wales, where he was presented with an illuminated address to mark his half-cen-tury’s service to the National Union of Seamen, and his seventieth birthday. Mr Wilson is much better than he was a month ago. He was wheeled in a chair. In q characteristic speech, Mr Wilson said: 11 As far as the ‘ Bolshies’ are concerned, I am certainly rattling their ribs, and intend to continue to do so. There is only one way to solve unemployment—namely, by common sense and goodwill. 1 would like the industrial unions to take the matter in Hand. It would be much'better if the Labour leaders were to talk about real questions that,would be useful today—not. a century hence—instead of talking so much about ■ (politics;” • ! MOSCOW PLANS. TO QET REVENUE, „ : London, October 2,. The “ Daily Mail ” . states V Further revelations regarding Moscow’s attempt to obtain English money for socalled Russian concessions indicate a gigantic swindle with the .object of establishing industries which, as in the past, can be stolen later. The Bolsheviks, on the excuse that the museums are over-crowded, are endeavouring to raise fuiids by selling in London, priceless art 1 vtreasures which largely have been stolen from -the palaces of'Royalty and nobility, including sculptures of- the eighteenth century, French furniture, Deauvais, Gove Inis, and Anbusson tapestries, be-diamonded snuff boxes and valuable paintings. As the London dealers refuse tempting terms, the articles will be auctioned at Berlin in November. The ■ paper ‘ ‘ Isvestia ” ! 1 discloses a Scheme to hire' American tourists to Russia/ by the opening-of the frontiers and the facilitating of travel, the building of de luxe hotels, and the selling to Americans of home-made antiques indistinguishable from genuine ones.

IRISH ANTIQUES. SOLD FOR A SONG. LONDON, October 2. The “Daily Mail ” states: When the Rebels entrenched on,; tlie Dublin Four. Courts in 1916, masses of irreplaceable records, including wills, census returns and parish registers, covering seven centuries, were lost. The remainder disappeared in 1922, when the Foui Courts were burned and blown up during the Civil War. A reporter recently found in a London antique shop one of these ancient parchments. It was serving as a lampshade on the manager’s desk. He was promised that any other would be returned to the Irish Government, but only twelve samples remain ol the original bundle, which was bought in a market at Barrow for £2, by the firm’s principal. Most of the documents were made into lampshades, and were sold to Americans.

THE OLDEST MAN. MARRIES TWELFTH WIFE. CONSTANTINOPLE, October 2. Zara Agba, the world’s oldest inhabitant, whose age is officially given as 155 years, lias just selected bis twelfth wife. Ten of his wives have died of old age, and the eleventh has just been divorced, at the age of ninety. Wife number twelve is a mere slip of a girl, 115 years bis junior.' When Amanullali, the Afghan King, was in Constantinople, he was so impressed with' this youthful Methuselah tiiat lie made him a gilt of £2OO. Zara Agba has used this money to divorce his wife. THE NAVAL TENT. (Received this day at 9. a.m.) PARIS, October 2. The French Cabinet lias decided unanimously that it is necessary to publish the text of the naval compromise, subject to the approval of Britain, which will be sought instantly.