GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 4 September 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

LORD MERSEY. United Press AssoL’ation. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, September 3. Obituary.—Lord Mersey. [Viscount Mersey, 22, Grosvenor Place, S.W., aged 88; acted as President of Titanic Commission in 1912; appointed judge .of King’s Bench, 1897; President of Bankruptcy Court, 1904-1908; was Conservative M.P. for two years; on South Africa Committee which examined Cecil Rhodes. Sir John Bigham was raised to Peerage, 1910. Presided over inquiry into the Lusitania and Fa la bn war tragedies in If 15. Received vjiscounty on New Year’s Day, 1916. Resumed judicial work in 1921 to assist in Divorce Court •for a brief period.]

DAUGHTER FOR MUSSOLINI. ROME, September 3. Gorli, Mussolini’s wife, has given birth' to a daughter, Anna Maria. NAVAL NEGOTIATIONS. JAPANESE VIEWS. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) KOBE', September 3. Japanese navyites express' dissatisfaction at tlie luke-warmness of tin .MacDonald-Dawes naval negotiations. It is explained that Japan is anxious to reduce all classes of ships especially capital, but is not satified that the Anglo-American parity must have a 70 per cent ratio. Japan’s desires are strongly expressed for financial consideration therefore she wants her own navy to remain while others reduce, meanwhile presenting for replacement four small obsolete craft. RETURNING TO N.Z. ONDON, Sept. 3. Lady and Miss Parr are leaving for New Zealand by the Tamaroa on November Bth. THE ‘-DAILY HERALD’’ LONDON,, Sept. 4. The Trades Union Congress approved of a scheme to provide capital for the expansion of the “Daily Herald” to make it equal in size to that of other London mornings. It has beer rumoured that the scheme places the financial control under Oldh-ms Ltd.. Printers and Publishers. The policy remains unchanged.