GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

THE LONE FLYER ENGAGED. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) MEXICO CITY, Feb. 12. The United States Ambassador, Mr Dwight Morrow, on Tuesday announced the engagement of his daughter, Anne, to Colonel Charles Lindbergh. A WEDDING OF WORLD-WIDE INTEREST. HAVANA, Feb. 12. Colonel Lindbergh refused to comment on his engagement, or mention his fiancee. “Gcntlement, 1 wish you would stick to, business and aviation,” he said. , No date is s et for the wedding. DAIRY ASSOCIATION CONY EN:noN. VANCOUVER, Fob! 12.

The Western Canada Dairy Association and British Columbia Dairymen opened conventions simultaneously today. An intimation was given that the question of the Trade I reaty would bo discussed. The annual ieport draws the attention of a growing feeling of dairymen favouring the restoration of a moderate degree of protection in the dairy indusfcij. The Secretary of the National Dairy Council, Mr W. F. Stephen, gave figures showing the huge, imports of New Zealand butter. He was instructed to obtain information of .the benefit, if any, that, the lumber industry received from the treaty.

TROTSKY LOCATED. CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 12. M. Trotsky has arrived from Odessa. This is the first definite news of his whereabouts, which for a fortnight had been the subject of a mass of contradictory reports.

SITUATION SLOWLY IMPROVING. DELHI, Feb. 13. The situation is slowly improving. The casualties yesterday for twentyfour hours were three killed and twen-ty-four injured. About half the mills are working normally. MANY MORE GYPSIES DIE. WARSAW, February 13. . Frost guards near Lublin found an entire Gypsy band of thirty-four men, women, and children frozen to death. BULGARIAN NOVELTY. SOFIA, February 12. Varna and Burgas are icebound. People are skating along the coast for the first time since 1849. FRANCE SUFFERS SEVERELY. PARTS, February 12. Twenty-six degrees of frost has been recorded here. This is the lowest, with three exceptions, for- i 55 years. The Prefect of Police is installing braziers in sheltered corners in the principal streets. There are many train delays, owing to the engine tubes freezing. Heavy snowfalls have occurred in many places, even at Marseilles and at Cannes. The famous Chartreuse Monastery, near Grenoble, has been snowed up. and isolated. F orty-eight degrees of frost are recorded at Belfort.

GERMAN TRAGEDIES. DDE TO RECORD FROST. BERLIN, February 12. The intense cold there has been responsible for two disasters at Stuttgart. An express train was forced to slow down owing to the freezing of its radiator. The driver oi a lolloping express train did not sec the signals, owing to the frost-covered windows, and crashed into the Stuttgart train. Three were killed and seventeen were injured. 'An attempt to thaw some frozen calcium carbide in an acetylene gas factory at '.Bremen- led to an explosion in which three wore killed and tweni.v were injured • seriously. 'Jho whole factory was demolished. The Rhine, the Mosel and the Ruhr rivers nre frozen for considerable distances. Frankfurt City has experienced its lowest temperature for a century. One wpr-hlinded man was found frozen to death at-Duisburg, with his dog keeping watch beside his body, and not allowing anyone to approach.

N.Z. BUTTER.IN CANADA. VANCOUVER, Feb. 13. President Berry told the Western Canada Dairy Convention, now being held here, that a drop in the production of butter had been caused by the loss of three cents per lb. protection through the Caiuulian-Australian trade treaty. He said that in the past few months, Twenty million pounds of butter came from Australia and New Zealand,. and the tragedy of it was that Australia benelittcd only to a small extent, but New Zealand, with which Canada had hut a small trade was securing practically all of the profit.

TNFUENZA EPIDEMIC. LONDON, Fell. 12. The influenza• epidemic in Britain is intensifying. The- weekly death roll since the first of .January is as follows: First week Df>, second 122, third 179, fourth 321, and -fifth week 652. The influenza is worse on the Continent, where many business are at a standstill.

THE BRITISH NAVY. LONDON. February 13. Commenting on the ten-thousand-ton cruisers to be built for the British Navy, the “Daily Telegraph’s” naval writer says:—There is good reason to believe Britain would not build any more of these costly warships but Tor the action of other Powers. Britain at present has built eleven of them, and Australia has built two. Ibe Empire, with the two at present being laid down, will eventually have fifteen heavy cruisers, compared with Ameiica’s twenty-three, while Japan lias eight and France and Italy have six each. He added that it was improbable that much progress would bo made with the news ships before the end of the current financial year, and certainly they would not he ready for service until the spring or summer 1932. These ships belonged to the 1928 programme. The correspondent adds that the navy estimates for 1929 provide for three more cruisers—one of ieu thousand tons, and two of 8-100 tons.

STRANGE SCENES AT A FIRE. LONDON, Fell. 13. There were strange scenes in l’iecadilly from midnight to drawn when twenty lire engines, with 130 liiemeii were fighting a fire in the Troeadero Restaurant. The firemen’s uniforms were frozen stiff and huge icicles burned on their lace and on the building. Seventy feet water towers were used to combat the flames. The wa'er froze as it left the hoses and fell <m the fire as hailstones. The damage from the lire was confined to the upper storey of the restaurant. though much destruction was caused by water.