GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

DUKE [OF GLOUCESTER. United Press.Association~ByyElectric Telegraph—Copyright) Jj ’ ' TOKYO,.. May 18. The Duke of Gloucester is avoiding Osaka on account of a plague scare there. now at,lvure,,.a naval port on tbe Inland Sea. LABOUR WORLD. COTTON CRISIS AVERTED. LONDON, May 18. The Lancashire cotton dispute has been settled. t .MAYOR OF LYONS. (Received this day at 11 a.m.) PARIS, May 19. Socialists at Lyons withdrew opposition tO'iM. Herriot who. was elected Mayor, for .the. i twenty-first year. SCIENCE CONGRESS; WELTERVREDEN, A lay 18. The Science Congress held nil evening reception at the palace at which there was a brilliant gathering of foreign scientists and prominent colonial Dutch residents. The Governor-Gen-eral conversed with many foreigners. The Congress is represented by fourteen constituent countries, ten other countries,, and at present there are 260 delegates. A number of excursions are being mado on steamers for biologists, arid one for geologists, which under competent leaders are visiting islands in the neighbourhood. MARATHON WINNER. IiONDON, May 19. Corporal Ferris, of the Royal Air Force, for the sth. successive year, Jias won the Polytechnine marathon, Windsor to London, in two hours’ forty minutes 47 2-5 secs. The Finland Olympic representative, Laksonen, was second in two hours, forty-three minutes 48 seconds. SOVIET STEAMEIT. HELD UP BY POLICE. (Received this day at 1.0 p.m.) BASRA, May 19. Directly the Soviet steamer Komunist was berthed here, Iraq police mounted an armed guard, and only the captain was allowed ashore, when all hanks declined to negotiate the ship’s documents. The cargo is mostly matches, sugar and lamps. The cause of the police action is that ;C48, i50 aboard is believed to he destined to rekindle trouble among workers in the oTTfields.