GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1928, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

< (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Nov. 12. Lord Birkenhead joined the boards of Tate and Lyle, sugar refiners, and Johannesburg Consolidated Invest meat Coy., of which S. B. Joel is Ch airmail. BACHELOR’S TAX. (Times Service). LONDON, Nov. 12. , A Romo Correspondent states in connection with a bill doubling the tax on bachelors now before the Senate, iMussolini complains Unit ever, in Italy tho number of marriages are diminishing in spite of the Government’s various social, moral inducements to marriage. He says lie does not expect the bill to make bachelors terminate their state of isolation but it will at least make them financialh assist the Government’s social policy. Only unmarriageables permanently un able to work and inmates of poor bouses and hospitals are exempted from the tax. ALBERT HALL FESTIVAL LONDON, Nov. 11. The festival ended with the familiar.- Last Post and Reveille, Ear! ' Jellicoe giving a keynote to the gathering in an impressive appeal to tho vast assombb to renew its pledge to keep alive the spirit of comradeship, which won the war while working unceasingly for peace that such horror? might never be repeated. WOOL SALES. LONDON, Nov. 12. Bradford shows slightly better tone, merinoes firm, crossbreds distinctly firmer. A SOVIET SEIZURE. LONDON, Nov. 12, A British United Press message from Moscow states as the result of the Soviet drive to find new lands to distribute among peasants, sixty semi-feudal estates ruled by wild normads at Kirchizaka, in Central Asia, have boon seized. The Kazaks, puzzled by the Soviet’s challenge to their invincibility are stoutly resisting attempts at nationalisation. . I)R. DAVIDSON RETIRES. LONDON, November 13. The national gift to Dr Davidson, who retires from the office of Archbishop of Canterbury at midnight, amounted to £1(5.93(5. Hie day which was also his golden wedding, anniversary was marked by the heaviest mail in the history of Lambeth Palace, letters and telegrams showering upon the retiring prelate from all parts -of the World. ROMA OIL. BRISBANE, Nov. 13. Excitement prevails at Roma concerning., the oil prospects. The boro is down 3639 feet and a gas rush is expected momentarily. COOK STRAIT SWIM. ' MISS GLEITZE COMING OUT. LONDON, November 12. Hie distance swimmer, Miss Mercedes Gleitze, who lias been iinsiiccessml in two attemps this week to swim the Irish Sea, says that she proposes to swim Cook Strait in New Zealand. GENERAL BOOTH TO RETIRE. LONDON, November 12. Hie “Daily News” understands that General Booth’s condition is unchanged and that it will necessitate his retirement. BRITISH TRAGEDY. RUGBY. November 9. Lieutenant G. H.-Maddox, of the Coldstream Guards, was killed this ■ tfternoon when a- single-seater aeroplane lie was flying at the first meeting of the Household Brigade .Flying Club at Brooklands era,sited from a height of .1000 ifoet. The club was formed for officers ol the Brigade of Guards, who wished to .-take up flying. Several officers own /•aeroplanes. ! IRISH BANDITS. GOLF PLAYERS ROBBED. DUBLIN, Nov. 12. The police discovered a dump arms and ammunition in good condition at Inchicore, including three machine-guns and many hand grenades. Masked men at Fox Rock, County Dublin, held up thirty members of a golf club with revolvers and fired several shots, wounding a Mrs Fitzgerald. The bandits stole all/ . the money from the pockets of the members and escaped. They were noi identified. COOLIDGE’S FAVOURABLE SPEECH ’ LONDON, November 12. Official circles in London favourably regard Coolidge’s speech as making plain that America recognises the essential differences between American and European approach to current European problems. It also gives hope for America’s co-operation in the solution of such problems. LABOUR COURT’S- DECISION. BERLIN, November 12. The Labour'Court at Duisburg decided the Arbitrators award for iron and steelworkers is not binding, making reconciliation more difficult.