GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

CRICKET RULES,

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

LONDON, April 26

The Advisory County Cricket Committee discussed the • proposed •alterations and approved of tl»e enlargement of the wickets, leg before and limitation of rolling period. .It rejected the new ball proposal for every hundred and fifty and also the change of the boundary.

PRIVY COUNCIL CASE. LONDON, April 26

The Privy Council reserved judgment in Barnard versus Lysnar, a New Zealand case.

BANDIT SENTENCED. BELGRADE, April 26

Miloslav Ivrstovitch, a bandit, was tried for twenty-seven charges, including several murders and robberies accompanied with rape. He was convicted in each case and ’ received the record term of 362 years imprisonment, which, however, was cancelled hv a fourfold death sentence.

INDIAN WORKERS STRIKE

DELHI, April 27

Sixty thousand workers at the Bombay cotton, mills have struck, i.ii response to the call of the Communist Union. Fifty mills are now idle.

'SIMON COMMISSION.

LONDON. April 27

Elaborate precautions were taken at Victoria Station. London, on the arrival fo Sir John Simon (chairman of the ‘Royal Commission which has just returned from Tmlia after taking evidence there on the matter of reform- in the system of Government). Two hundred police guarded the platform approaches, and hundreds of men on foot patrolled the street outside.

A crowd of agitators attempted to demonstrate scattering pamphlets and carrying black flags. Some ol the flags were inscribed, “to Hell with Simon 1 'Freedom for India!’ Four arrests were made.

NINETY Y FILES OF ICE

DELAYS LINER FOUR DAYS

LONDON, April 27

The Canard liner A neon i a has arrived at Liverpool from New York, via Halifax and Nova Scotia, being nearly four days late. She encountered ninety miles of fee on the journey across the Atlantic, some of the bergs being bigger and longer than herself.

The Anconia covered in one day only forty-two miles, compared with her normal run of 343 miles per day.

SENS AT lON A L INQUEST

LONDON. April 27

At the inquest on Vera Sidney, aged ,forty, whose body was exhumed a month ago. simultaneously with her mother’s, Doctor Roy fie I (Home Ollico analyst) gave evidence that arsenic was {blind in the body. The inquest was adjourned. At an earlier sitting a sensation was eaitsed by Mrs Sidney’s son, Thomas, 'giving evidence that his mother suggested to him on her death bed that she had been poisoned. He and his sister, Mrs Duff, are interested m Vera’s will.