GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

INDIAN RIVER DISASTER. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). DELHI, Jan. 10. Nineteen labourers were drowned in a boat disaster on the Indus. Among the victims were three brothers, whose mother dropped dead on hearing the news. INDIAN EX-SOLDI BUS PROTEST. DELHI, Jan. 10. There have been curious scenes at Lahore, where for several days thousands of Indian ex-service men have been lying down on the roads approaching Government House, Enough the bitterly cold weather, pending a settlement of grievances regarding promised land and grants, etc. CHAIRMAN OF COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY. LONDON. Jan. 0. Tt is officially announced that Sir Basil Blackett becomes. Chairman, and the Earl of Clarendon Director of the Communications Company taking over the cable and wireless services. GERMAN RELATIONS WITH SOVIET. LONDON, Jan. 10. . The Times’s Riga correspondent says Doctor Vondirksen. the new German Ambassador at Moscow, speaking at a banquet at the opening ol the “German Week” organised to demonstrate Germany's latest technical developments. and the possibility of cooperation in Russian, economic hie. predicted profitable intercourse based on the Rapollo Treaty of mutual confidenefe. FIELD MARSHAL’S PREDICTION. LONDON. Jan. 10. The Daily Telegraph gives prominence to a speech by Field Marshal Sir George Milne, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, stressing the importance of territorials, and saying that mobilisation might happen in our time, I am certain in spite of everybody’s plea of perpetual peace. BRITAIN FOG BOUND. LONDON, Jan. 10. Fog covered the area between "Yorkshire and Paris all day long and shipping. including trans-Channel traffic has been held up. Only one air liner contrived to find its way from Paris. BARRISTER’S PLEA UPHELD. LONDON, Jan. 10. The Bar Council upheld a barrister who' at a murder trial exhorted flic jury to remember that human life depended on a verdict which might he • irrevocable. The 6oiirt had deprecated flu words, but the Bar Council considered they did not go beyond the latitude allowable to Counsel on important occasions. LINKING-UP. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, January 10. ' Tristan d’Aclninka, the world’s loneliest island, will shortly be linked up with civilization by means of a three-valve short-wave wireless re ceiver and thus lie in daily contact with Europe and Australia through '2 FC arid 3 LO. OBITUARY. LONDON, January 10. Obituary.—Howard Williams, a son of the founder of the Y.M.C.A. Me was specially concerned in the Association’s development Empirewide. MELBOURNE, January 10. Obituary, suddenly. Harrington Lees, Archbishop of Melbourne, who recently married and returned from England. He had just appealed lor peace in industry. BANKRUPT JOCKEY. DONOGHUE’S £10.819 DEFICIT. LONDON, Jan. 10. The creditors of the jockey. Steve Donoghue, accepted a composition of os in the pound. His liabilities totalled £33.30.5. leaving a deficiency of £lO,819. He attributed his bankruptcy to his liabilities being under joint guarantees, and, prpmissory notes being assessed for income tax above his actual earnings. , ■ A BIG SALARY. LONDON, January 10. The “ Daily News ” says Blackett will .receive £'15:000 salary from the Radio Board. . Claredon already receives £3,000 for the chairmanship of tha Broadcasting Corporation.