GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1928, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

RAIDING OUTRAGE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Dec. 11. An armed party raided the Corporation Depot in Hanover Street, Dublin, held up Lite caretaker, cut oil the head of the statue of William 111, sent there for repairs, after being damaged by the explosion by College Green on Armistice Day. '1 he gang escaped, taking the head. appeal dismissed. LONDON, Dec. 10. The Appeal Court dismissed the appeal of Miss Hoskyns. Justice Sc ruttan said the case was an unfortunate' one. A very sincere woman had for filed views of her duty to the dead conflicting with the ordinary habits of mankind. Appellant’s acts were a pity, at least a.s common to savage races as early Christians. The cemetery authorities had a right to stop extraordinary practices which were out of touch with the habits of modern civilisation. IN AFGHANISTAN, vßritish Official Wireless.) (Received this dav at 1.30 p m.) RUGBY, December 10. Questions were asked in the House of Commons regarding the situation in Afghanistan. Mr Locker Lampson (Under-Secretary to the Foreign Office) stated the Government were unaware that any British lives were in danger there. The Government were in constant communication by wireless with the British Minister at Kabul, who would take all possible steps to secure protection from the Afghan Government. He believed there were oiie or two thousand British subjects in Afghanistan, hut of these very few were British people. He understood that the disturbances wore confined to the neighbourhood of Jelalalbad and Dakko. and that negotiations for a settlement in these districts were pioecoding. CORONER’S COMMENT. LONDON. Dec. 10. “This is the most remarkable case 1 have ever encountered,” was the comment of a South Gloucestershire Coroner at the conclusion of an adjourned inquest, concerning the chaired bodies of two children, aged approximate! v 3 to 7 and 10 to 13, the victims of the Charfield railway disaster on October 11th. After a long lapse• nobody has claimed the ehildien, though everything has been done to solve the mystery. A porter gave evidence as to having taken tickets from two children travelling alone.