GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1928, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

COCKTAIL COM PETIT! ON

AFFECTS ALL THE JUDGES

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

PARIS, December 3

“Sober as a judge ” is no longer a true phrase, when judges make the acquaintance of cocktails. Such awsome names as “ Knock-me-down,” “ Sixcylinder,” “Lyddite, “Lucy,” “Satan’s Sting,” are only a few of the new concoctions served up in a fashionable Paris hotel where four hundred had to judge the cocktail competition organised by two Parisian newsapcrs. It was no light ordeal and it is not surprising that sis the afternoon wore on, some of the judges became hilarious, others green and pallid, while women discreetly vanished. When the last mysterious mixture was quaffed, all sense of discrimination had gone and nobody was able to give a coherent opinion, so the decision was postponed.

WHEAT

LONDON, December 3

Cargoes are steady on hotter American cables mostly three-pence higher but little business, parcels harder but there is small trade. Liverpool futures December 9s o:{d, March 9s -jjd, .May 9s Id, July 9s Bfd.

LETTER OF SYMPATHY

(Received this day at 11.26. a.m.) LONDON, December 3.

Mr Trumble sent a letter of sympathy to Tennyson’s relations on hoof the Australian High Commissioner. Trumble represents the. High Commissioner for Australia at the Archbishop's enthronement at Canterbury to-morrow and Sir James Pair is attending on behalf of New Zealand.

PRINCESS MARY’S GOOD WISHES

LONDON, December 3

On the eve of the cruiser Canberra’s sailing, Princess Mary sent the officers a calendar on which is written in her own handwriting: “With best wishes for a ’Xmas and Now Year, from Mary.”

N.Z. SHIPPING BOARD LOSS

WASHINGTON, December 3

The United States Shipping Hoard’s annual report revealed the total operation loss was 16,279,000 dollars tor the merchant fleet corporation in the fiscal year 1928. 750,000 WORK LESS. WHOLE COMMUNITIES POVERTYSTRICKEN-. . • LONDON, Dec. 3. 1 There has not been industrial disl tress matching the plight of the coalfields since the cotton famine, says a I leader in the Times. Whole oomrnuI nities have been stricken: homes iondered bare of clothing and b'>< :s worn out and bedding scarce. Neighbours, have been reduced to sharing nmapre cooking appliances. Their poverty at the approach of winter has become chronic. A population of three-quar-ters of a million find that employnient has simply left them. They must find other work far afield. The calamity has fallen swiftly and severely, yet a remedy must be slow. Tbe leader suggested additional general relief funds, and that different towns might adopt the villages, as was done after tho war. FREIGHT WAR ENDED. STEAMERS (WIITHDR.AAVN FROM , SOUTH AFRICAN TRADE.

LONDON, Dec. 4. ‘The Times” learns that the British Continental South African Line has withdrawn steamers from the Spilth African trade, in conformity with the arrangement of the South African conference, on lines whereby the latter take over all cargo committments. This will end the freight war. waged for 18 months, largely from Continental ports, with heavy losses. DEATH OF MR A. W. GORE. former TENNIS CHAMPION. LONDON, Dec. 3. The death occurred to-day of Mr Arthur "Wentworth Gore, a former tennis champion, at the age of 60. RUHR LOCKOUT ENDED. BERLIN. December 3. • The Ruhr steelworks lockout lias ended, the. workers accepting a settlement arranged by Herr Severing, Socialist Minister'for the Interior. POLO TEAM. HONOLULU, December 5. The Australian-Hawaiian polo team will leave Honolulu on "January oth to enter the tournament at Los Angeles. The Santa Barbara, Pelmonte and Sameta team comprises Pearson, Skene and Beveridge (Australians) and Ewin, Baldwin and Walter Dillingham (Hawaii) under Skene’s captaincy. Bkepe declares it is the best mounted team appearing on the Pacific coast in years. It is taking fifty ponies which Skene describes as the best he has ever seen. HURLEY’S FLIGHT. ATHENS, December 5. Hurley intends to ■ journey to London. He regrets he is unable to obtain a good aeroplane wherewith to continue the flight. He hopes to obtain one in London wherewith to fly home.