GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

GODDARD’S CLAIM OVER-RULED

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, July 17

Justice Rowlatt over-rilled the Court in ex-Sergeant Goddard’s claim for £12,000.

NOTED ANTARCTIC EXPLORER,

LONDON, July 16

The “Daily Mail’s” Johannesburg correspondent reports that Commander Frank Wild, who was a member of Captain Scott’s, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s, and Sir Douglas Mawson’s Antarctic expeditions, has spent the pastfour years in an unsuccessful cottongrowing enterprise, and his capital is gone. He is now a barman at the village of Goffer, the northernmost point in Zululand, and is earning four pounds per month. Drought ruined most of his fellow farmers, and Wild was the last to give up. FRENCH CHAMBER. MAJORITY FOR. THE AGREEMENT. (Times Service). LONDON, July 16. The “Times” Paris correspondent states that, making it a question of confidence, the French Government won the first division on the Reparations agreement proposals in the Cham her of Deputies by three hundred, and four votes to two hundred and thirtynine.

FRENCH POLITICS. PARIS, July 17. ■ The Government scored in a second division on the debts debate when Socialists motion subordinating ratification to Rhineland evacuation was defeated by 350 votes to 238. DIR MACDONALD. LONDON, July 17. Following the DlacDortald-Dawes conversations, diplomatic negotiations have begun with a view to Dir MacDonald going to America in the interests of naval disarmament.

TURKISH TRIALS. 26 COMMUNISTS SENTENCED. (Ri'Cpivpd this day al 11 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE/ July 17. The trial of thirty-five Communists accused of disseminating Communist propaganda and • attempting to undermine the existing regime in’,- Turkey resulted in twenty-six being sentenced to four and a half years each. OBITUARY. COM. BOOTH TUCKER. (Received this dav at II a s m.) LONDON, July 17. Obituary. Commissioner Booth Tucker, of the Salvation Army, aged seventy-six. S.S. TONGARLRO. ASHORE IN RED SEA. ’ LONDON, July 17. A message from Perim states the British steamer Tongariro bound from Bowen to London is ashore five miles south-east of Rasaibira. She is afloat •ift, and is not making water. She has requested assistance.

BRITAIN AND RUSSIA. BRITAIN’S NOTE. (Received this day at 11 a.m.) MOSCOW, July 17. The Norwegian Embassy has. delivered Britain’s Note to Karakhan .inviting a Russian representative to London to discuss the resumption of diplomatic relations. TRANSPORT SINKS. VALPARAISO (Chile) July 16. Thirty-nine persons were drowned by the sinking of the Chilean transport Abtac, off here on Tuesday. Only one was rescued. A storm raged all day. GENEVA CONVENTION. GENEVA, July 17. When a number of amendments were introduced in the text of the Geneva convention, Mr Raymond (New Zealand) urged a greater measure of protection for aerial medical services. This phase of the Red Cross justified a separate convention.