GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

EGYPT AND PALESTINE. (United Press Association—By Electric Te leg ra p h—-Copy r igh t). (Received this day at 11 a.m., CAIRO, Jan. 13. Egyptians and Palestine Governments have signed an agreement whereby civil and commercial judgments rendered in one country arc executed in the other. SUBSTANTIAL OFFERDENVER (Colorado), Jan. 13. The “Denver Rost” on Saturday offered fifty thousand dollars prize for the firs I non-stop airplane world flight, as nearly as possible along the fortieth parallel, commencing and ending at Deliver. DISEASED SHEEP. CONCERN AT SMITH FIELD. LONDON, January 12. A weekly dispatch asserts Smith field is seriously disturbed by the progress of an almost worldwide disease in sheep a fleeting meat imported into Britain. Great quantities of Australian and South American mutton are being condemned and Sniithlield’s system of inspection has been altered to combat the menace. Every carcase of mutton and lamb from Australia and South America is additionally and individually inspected. New Zealand is exempt •from special examinations. The disease occurs in the symphatic glands and is deep-seated in the shoulders. The Commoner, Will Thorne, is raising the question in the Commons. He says he is dissatisfied with the inspection of meat in the countries ol origin, as it is insufficiently rigorous. The danger seems to he glossed over. The disease is a menace to health, particularly in the poorer districts, where diseased meat is too frequently and brazenly exposed. The origin ol the disease which is not tubercular, is believed to he in the soil,*