GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

EGYPTIAN TRIAL. (United Press AssocinLion.—My Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) CAIRO. Eehniiiry 7. The Council of Discipline and unlive liar acquitted Naims Pasha of hriher.v charges in connectioti with Prince Sei•l’eddin (cabled on 21th June). TUI.I P CULTIVATION. imparting Colours. I.OXDOX, February 7. Tin* hlack tulip of fiction will soon he a reality. The “ Daily Mail ” reports a Nottinghamshire horticultural expert has produced green tulips by feeding the soil in which they grew with harmless aniline dyes. The stems sucked it up and transferred it to the blooms. Me says there is practically no limit to the variation of hues impartable to a tulip by dying the earth wherein the bulbs grow. REPORTED RUSSIAN DEMAND. AND THREAT TO ROMM KABUL. (Received this day at 11 a.m.) DEEM I, February 8. It is reported from Peshawar that Russia has delivered an ultimatum to B.ieehasakao, stating that unless lis ceases to pillage the Kabul treasury and pays £8,000,000 within eight days for rifles, ammunition, and war equipment supplied Amamiilah, that Kabul will be bombed. The story, is, not.-continued but it is known Afghanistan owes large sums to Russia for war equipment. BLOWN UP BY SHELL. (Received this day at 10 si.m.) PARIS, Eeb. 7. Two Polish workmen, after being dismissed from a job of breaking up war material, stole back to the premises and attempted to break up a shell in order to obtain copper worth a few pence An explosion followed and both were blown to pieces. LEAVE TO .MARRY. LONDON, Feb. 7. Clark has applied to The Home Secretary for permission to marry Alary Fontaine, daughter of the murdered woman. The pair were courting some months before the murder. THE COMING ELECTION. SOME FORECASTS. LNODON, February 7. If is the open season tor election forecasts. Sir M>. Joynson-1 licks says “ ] never had any doubt, of the result. I always said he would obtain a majority over all parties of 00 to 70, hut it will he more difficult than the last. My tip is: Conservatives 838, Labour 214. Liberals 00, independents 3.” Phillip Snowden thinks the Liberals will get 00 to 70. Mr Stanley Baldwin, in a recent speech, said iie did not think the Liberals would come into office. They might hold the balance. Mr Lloyd George, who is due from the Dardanelles to-morrow, said lie would lay two to one against either a Conservative or a Labour majority.