GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1928, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

4' PROPOSED HOE KIT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph--Copyright). (Received .this day at 12.25. p.m.) LONDON. December !). •1. C. Squire* (editor and poet) is arranging to aid the hospitals with a n icker benefit on New Year’s day on the historic ground where llamhledon men i'ounded the first English Cricket Chib in 1750. The teams will he Squire’s invalids versus Hampshire Ksquiinos. lie says rain, hail, or snow they shall play the match. Klannels will he compulsory and gloves permitted, it if is freezing. There will he a matting wicket and plenty of hot coffee if snow sweeps the pitch. WHEAT KING DEAD. CHICAGO, December S. •James A. Patten at one time “wheat king” of the United States, died of pneumonia. COAL SCHEME. LONDON, Dec. 8. The Governmen has prepared and is expected to announce before Christmas, an important scheme for help of the coal industry. According to the Sunday Express, the public is concerned that a question of a million miners are idle and over a million men, women and children arc facing a cheerless Christmas, and are now subscribing hastily to relief funds. The Government plan aims at the creation of a huge selling organisation, as well as providing capital for the development of coal power on scientific lines. COAL ENTER INTENTS. LONDON, Dec. 9. The “Daily Express” sayft the Government’s coal expm'iinont includes a test of the use of the residue from low temperature carbonisation. This produces smokeless fuel but in most cases it i s difficult to burn. Recent research resulted in the invention of a p'idverising plant making the residue cheaper for steamship fuel than either coal or oil. In the presence of the Admiralty. Board of I rade, British. Erem-li. and Dutch representatives made a successful experiment of the new fuel, carried on aboard the Hornrata. She will shortly thoroughly try out the fuel on the voyage to New Zealand. PCHNEIDER. CUP. LONDON, Dec. 9. After inspection of several alternative venues, the Aero Club decided to l;. :i .]f 1 the 1929 Schneider Cup race at The Solent. The opinion is it alone combines the stretch of .smooth water •suitable for three hundred miles per hour machines to alight upon, with the necessary shed and slipway accommodation. It is expected that Britain, France. Italy, America andl Germany will compete. Special racing seaplanes, estimated to attain three hundred miles an hour are being constructed to Britain’s order to defend the trophy.