GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). TWICE DIVORCED. • . LONDON, Jan. 21. George Low, a resident of Dublin, divorced his wife in 1917 and remarried her in 1922. To-day he secured a second divorce on the grounds of his wife’s misconduct with the same correspondent.

STRIKE BREAKING

SPANISH STYLE

MADRID, January 21

The Premier, General Primo de R.ivera, on visiting Barcelona, did not take long to end a. strike of two thousand workers at the international exhibition. He posted a notice on Saturday stating that if the men were not working on Monday, they wouk be deported. Only a dozen of the men did not return to work to-day. Seven oif the ringleaders were arrested.

DICTATORSHIP

IN JUG O-SI/AVI A

BELGRADE, January 22,

The Government has dissolved all of the Croatian parties, including the Peasant Party headed by M. Matchek. .The party offices have been closed down, and the police have demanded the’ archives and the funds, but they have received a reply from one organisation that that it has no. funds, but only debts.

SPREAD OF RADIO

REMARKABLE IN BRITAIN

LONDON, January 22

Wireless sets are now possessed by one family out of every four in England, by one in every seven families in Scotland and Wales, and by one in every eleven families in Ulster. There -were fifty thousand new licenses issued in these countries in December. The total number of license holders at December 31st last was 2,628,392.. .

CHARLES LAMB

HIGH PRICES FOR MSS

NEW YURK, January 21

Mr Charles Sessler, a collector, has paid forty-eight thousand dollars for an eight-page manuscript of Charles Lamb’s contribution to the “ Table Book.” The first edition of Lamb’s ‘‘Poetry for Children,” of which four copies tire known, went to Doctor Rosenbach for 8750 dollars at the Auction Anderson Galleries.

TRADE TREATY

AUSTRALIA AND CANADA

OTTAWA, January 21

Official instructions have been 'forwarded to the Canadian Trade Commissioner, Mr Ross, at Melbourne to discuss in a friendly way with ilie Australian Government possible changes in the Australian trade agreement with Canada. The instructions, it is stated, should reach Air Ross within the next fetv days. Official circles have declined to make any comment on what alterations in the treaty might come underi discussion.

VALUABLE TOBACCO SHARES

LONDON, January 22

A sensational vise in the Imperial Tobacco Company’s £1 shares from 127 sto 136 s followed the announcement of a dividend of 26 per cent., and distribution of one free share for every (four held. On to-day’s market, the valuation of the .Company’s ordinary capital is now worth over two hundred million.