GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

DOMINION GOVERNORS-

INCREASE IN' PENSIONS

(United Press Association—By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON, December 11

A proposal to raise the maximum yearly pension for Governors of Dominion,, etc. from £I3OO to £2OOO is explained in a memordamim-. on the .financial resolution introduced in the .House of Commons by the Secretary o'l State for the Colonies. On the resolution will be found a Bill to give .effect, to,the recommendations contained in thp report of Lord Bucton’s Committee. Increases in the scale .of £1 per month of service, in the various classes are detailed, and it is estimated that • the added expense involved by the Bill will be between £SOOO and £OOOI .yearly. SHIP FOUNDERED. MANY LOTS LOST. SHANGHAI, Jan. 24. Tho; steamei* Hengan, from Tsing•tao with a cargo of. coal and sixty passengers, and crew foundered outside Shanghai on Monday at 1 a.m. Nineteen, after three days in an open boat exposed to a northerly blizzard, we sc rescued this morning.

, .;,A. • rennet states-.a . Bussiap sivas 1 seized, by the chiefs offjcei’ at tlie last moment and thrown into a life:He regained his ship, ..deciding 'to go down' with her. Forty persons were drowned and the remainder were .brought., to port, oufi'eripg ir ..l'i;oiu. collapse and cold, being without water or food. i' LOCSUST INVASION ; tS-t THE '-y HOLY LAND. LONDON, jani 24. “The Times” Jerusalem correspondent states: It is officially announced "Ilia A locust, ibyasiom has reached the vicinity' of Allcnby Bridge, whe-i e swarms are. circling within a thirteen miles radius. The Trans-Jordan AntiLocust Service slew vast 1 quantities, after which the swarms scattered, but then reappeared in villages along.the line of the Dead Sea.' Hebron reports that new large swarms have settled at Jericho.: The Trans-jardon-Palestine services have organised a joint campaign. The Jerusalem Field Coy. is operating thirty-two flame guns and lias partially wiped'out a flense swarttr .eastward of Beersheha. , ; ' • GRIM DRAMA. POLICE V. BANDITS. , - BRUSSELS,, Jan. 24. ,' • Two armed men concerned in a holdup, were being pursued on January I6tlu when..they turned and .fired, mortally wounding a policeman. They then escaped. The city since has been eombed till yesterday morning when the bandits were discovered on a footba 1 ground', Which was surrounded.; One Was captured in* the afternoon: Th< other made a desperate resistance in a. gar.age I .'till evening, when, after wounding two policemen, and being himself hit by bullets, he was captured in a dying condition. Thousands of spectators watched the drama from a. safe distance. ~ ,