GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 22 February 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

ORDERS FOR LOCOS'. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) CAPETOWN, February 21. Glasgow manufacturers secured an order for thirteen locomotives for tlio Smith African railways, the locomotives costing C7,(>22 each. A German firm secured a contract for thirteen similar costing £(*>,7oo and the American firm off Baldwins, six at £(>,(>9o and lour at £7,272. THE FROST’S ACTION. PARIS, February 21. Frost extinguished the Eternal Fl.ime of Remembrance at the tomb ot the Unknown Soldier. A DAIRY -MERGER, LONDON, February 21. An important merger, interesting dairy producers, is announced. Tile Homo and Colonial Stores is increasing its caplin I to three millions, purchasing the preferred ordinary shares of .Meadows Dairy Company which has a controlling interest in Roarks Dairies and several other companies. It is also associated with the management of l.iptou’s. It is understood the deal represents about £2,8*3.000. The combine will control 3,500 shops throughout the country. GREECE FROZEN. ATHENS, Feb. 21. Freezing following floods converted lot) thousand acres near the Turkish border into a Polar waste. Alans human ‘beings anti cattle were drowned. Seven villages were overwhelm! d and others are beneath thirty feet o' snow. Aeroplanes are dropping loou. A CHINESE NUAIBER. LONDON, Eeb. 21. Apropos off the Prince of Wales’s criticism of the marketing of goods, Sir Crowe at the Industries Fair luncheon related when 250 c.c. motor cycles were being exported to China, the Department was informed it was an unlucky number in China. Crowe telephone to the Legation to find out if it were true, ami was informed '‘it was not exactly unlucky but 250 in Chinese sounds like ‘Your damned fool.’ ” BOYS ON TOUR. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 21. At New Orleans, a four days programme is arranged lor Australian and New Zealand hoys under the auspices ot tin 1 local Rotary C lub. I hey have already visited schools and industrial places. Other functions include a luncheon by the Association of Commerce and presentation of a valuable silk flag from Louisiana. b A B R (>K EN EX GAG EAI ENT. LONDON, Feb. 21. The ‘‘Evening Standard” discloses that the woman to whom Lord Haldane was engaged in 1890, the engagement being broken off niter live weeks, was Miss Ahmro Ferguson, a sister of Lord Novar. She gave no explanation beyond saying she misunderstood herself. She was then in her early twenties, beautiful and accomplished. She died in 1897. Lord Haldane paid her a touching tribute in his recently published autobiography. L a dv Homer, recalling the incident mentions that Lord Haldane found consolation in increased conceiitiution on his work.