GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1929, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

i - EMPIRE SERVICE LEA.GUE. /.United Ureiy? Aflsoyiatio.n—By Electric Telegraph—j Copy right; LONDON, June 21. Sir Andrew Russell will represent New Zealand nt the Fourth Biennial fonverence of the British Empiro Ser- . ice/Lc.-tgue,. which will he opened on 24i.h June by Hon. A. L. Amery. The discussions will include Empire migration and development of Empire trade. FINED FOR ASSAULT. LONON,* June 21. As a sequel to the Cnxton Hall rag, taxi-cab loads of students filled Westminister- Police Court when Norman Richardson, a dental student, was charged with assaulting Frederick Thrcadgold, an elderly tutor, whom he picked up and dropped on the floor. 'The Magistrate described the assault as offensive and unjustified, and fined Richardson £3 sterling. Lord Byng is receiving a deputation from tlie Anti-Vivisection Society led by Lord Tankervillc, alleging inadequate police protection.

PRAYER BOOK CONTROVERSY. LONDON, June 21. The Bishops’ decision (cabled yesterday) seems likely to fan the Prayer Book feeling again to a white heat. Dr Barnes, Bishop Of Birmingham, in the “ Evening News ” says that it will r lie difficult to say what a minority of the Bishops will do until the. majority have revealed the exact proposals. He added: “ You can take it that the Bisliop of Norwich ..and 1 will resolutelv opjiose iin attempt to authorise the Book which parliament rejected. CAPETOWN-MURDER. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) CAPETOWN, June 23. A European builder’s artisan, whose name at the request of the authorities the prfess has hot published, was : rrested at Cwelo on a charge of murder of an eighteen-vear-old university student, Knnthac, daughter of a wellknown engineer in Johannesburg in a 700-acre plantation in November, 1927. After thirty-six hours’ search, wherein tlie Air Force joined, the mutilated body of the girl was found by a Boy a..out covered with leaves and bark. The girl, accomapnied by a terrier, left home to go for an afternoon stroll. The murder was presumed to he a native outrage and a reward of £509 failed to elicit a single clue. It is known the "arrested man was working in the neighbourhood 'of the scene of the murder nt the time.