GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1928, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

A LUNCHEON.

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright:)

LONDON, October 17

The Chairman atfdHhei .Comniittee df the London Stock Exchange gave an official luncheoh- tti F. L. Langfbrd (Chairman of Hobart Stock E^hange). V - 4 ~‘ ~ L v .

FRENCH SAHIOR& i STRIPE. A/

MARSEILLES; October 17

Sailors are on strikfe 1 ' demanding an increase of' ~ss . mdiitll'.iti their wages#; They recently held up several iihers by means of one-day 'stHkes. The owners are retaliating and; have withGfal\*ft several, 1 Tlie dockers ate supporting the strikei’s and an extension is feared:

COMPANY REORGANISATION

---i.' g It LONDON, October 17

A scheme proposed for re-organising a share in this loan fcapital,jOfv^ 7 Bliaffi ■ Beardnibre ahd' Company, ? shipbuifdf ers, includes writing dbwii 20s cumulative S W?, ahd cancellihg fcnir' years 7 fttrearS ; of;,diyi-' dend, aiid writing down 20s ordinary shares to one shilling. It is also posed to issue various debenture stocks totalling £4.150,0(10 in order to meet claims of existing creditors, including %he Tfeacsp>Y' an f the Office. " . " V * '-I'-*

A PILOT’S ESCAPE ■ . • a ' y •’’ ■■

LONDON, October l'7

"An- R.A.F. pilot: vha new all-metal Bristol Bulfdog Eighter' at the Air Ministry’s testing station, lost consciousness in ratified'airat five, miles altitude. : Thef ftfac|me v dived at a speed of three hundred miles an hour, but the airman . regay l consciousness and resumed cdnti’bl. Thealtimeter showed- the machine had dived three miles. \ COURT FIRDIN*G. PARIS; October 17. Kerensky (babied 1 October l(lth) - was lined 16 francs and ordered to pay , a (franc damages. , LONDON, Oct. 17. The Romo correspondent .■ of * ‘Thev Times” says: the State Act,' np. .app^l : pprmissable, and only' the King Is able to grant a reprieve. Consequently, in view of the satisfaction with which his is,throughout' Italy, Maggiora hkely- Vlb Jr e shot within *24 hours, in accordance with the special law-. The Public Prosecutor’s argument that the murder of cists, and are therefore men representing the safeguard of the regime and of the state, indicates that, whoever henceforth, attempts a Fascist s life, as a Fascist, will he -treated , as: attacking: the security., State,. >

FASCIST JUSTICE. ;■ -.v ROMEj Oct: 18. Swift justice, was .metecD to Maggiora. Hi© was'shot 5 against ja wall at sunrise this motriiiig'- ' ’ : ■ V •;%. {V H ’ ' MINISTER’S ADVICE.

OTTAWA, Oct: 17

Replying' to the lumber trade delegation, the Doriiniion Fiittanee Minister, Mr Robb, took exception to a> suggestion that the linhber industry had beep neglected A-uriiddf - the Ads-' tralian treaty. He instanced tlie consideration given to Canadian newsprint paper, and the results of some votes in Parliament., A tive of the Australian • 'Ghvernment over a year ago had intimated that he was going -back to have the treaty cancelled. The feeling, had in Australia - thaf ed the fcetter part of the bargain. The treaty, might’ be enlarged, but they would never get' it enlarged by bombasting the trade agreement for keeping,their products out.

SOVIET PRISON SYSTEM

LONDON, Oct. 17

“So long as capitalism exists, we must, and shall, continue sliootihg people dangerous tor our. society and our regime,” was .the Soviet's CLief Prbseb'Utor, ' -..Mr Krilenko, at a Prisoft*’Reform Conference, reports the “Daily New’s” Moscow correspondent. - M.; Krilenko deplored the number of short on workers. He explained he was drafting a bill to standardise the punishment for non-political offences, giving the sameij.pnjjiqhmcshtfyto'- all convicted persons, followed (by lifelong exile, w'hile criminals escaping imprisonment would be deported to Siberia, and compulsory' labour

TELEVISION,

BAIRD APPARATUS* * IMPERFECT

LONDON, Oct. 17.

A fter a studio; dembristraititm' of the Baird television apparatus, as suggest-, ed recently, the British'Broadcasting Corporation has issued a* statement that its administrative and- technical officials had found the demonstration interesting as an experiment, <btit that it failed to justify a broadcast trial. v The Board, therefore, had decide® not - to give an experimental tran'srriission at present, though it was prepared to revise its decision when, development justified,