GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

Til KICK SUK VIVOItS. OK A WRECKED STEAMER. vUnited Press Association—By Electric Telegi a ph—Copy right). (Received this day at 10.30. a.in.) PA R IS, January 10. Throe survivors have landed at .Marseilles from the steamer Malakalf, which sank in a gale in the .Mediterranean. a week ago. When the lifeboat sank, these three climbed aboard a racing yacht, part of the cargo, which was Hung into the sea when the .Ualakall' struck a rock. The survivors were at the mercy of the tempest for six days and were picked up by. a passing vessel, exhausted. archmsiioi‘ enthroned. LONDON, January JO. Under the snow-mantled roof ol beautiful York minster, a thousand, white-robed clergy participated in the enthronement of William Temple as Archbishop ml' York. Illness caused the absence of the Archbishop ol Canterbury. Four thousand laity filled tile naive. REAR-ADMIRAL it VANS. TAKES CHARGE IN AUSTRALIA i Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 10.' Rear Admiral E. R. Evans, the Antarctic explorer, and Commander of HALS. IJro ke, has been appointed to succeed Hear Admiral Hyde, of the Australian Navy, He takes over command in May. CABLE MERGER. LONDON, Jan. 11. Sir Basil Blackett considers the Communications Company wid increase the cheapness and efficiency of Empire communications. Its dividends will ho six p*r cent, and any excess profits will he divisible equally between the Company and a reduction of rates or other purposes approved of by the advisory committee. ‘‘This is a big new advance of lines of inter-imperial public utility service, .substituting co-operative development of telegraphic, communications for uneconomic competition and securing all the attendant advantages at cheaper rates for the public. “The sale to the Communications 'Company of assets of the Cable and Marconi Companies in exchange for the Company’s shares provides a capital of thirty millions sterling.” ‘ BLACKETT’S SALARY.. LONDON, Jan. 10. Blackett’s salary will be £BOOO annually. not £15,000.