GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

INVITATION ACCEPTED. -.United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON, October 15. France, Italy, and Japan have notified acceptance of the invitation to the Naval Conference. The first-named will announce reservations later.

EXHIBITION FELICITATIONS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, October 15. Sir Henry Barwell proposing the toast of the exhibitors at Newcastle Exhibition declared it refuted all rumours that the Old Country was done It displayed originalty of ideas, soundness of design, manufacturing skill and invention. The co-operation of all connected therewith contributed to its success not the least among these being that the manager was C. P. Hainsworth, manager of the Dunedin Exhibition m 1926. Britain, he added would resecure commercial supremacy, ff not throught her own resources then as a result of the growing resources and power of the dominions.

CABLE TRAFFIC. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 15. • It is understood that a great amount of New Zealand cable traffic hitherto going via Eastern,, is now going via imperial Government Wireless. As a result the Commonwealth is losing heavily on land charges, about which representations have been made to the Merger Company. It is further stated that a renewal of the efforts to obtain permission to cater for wireless telephony was made, hut the British Post Office was adamant. A SCHOLARSHIP. LONDON, Oct, 15. E. G. Weeks, of New Zealand, now of Worcester College, has been awarded a Hamsworth Law Scholarship of £2OO per year for three years. WELLINGTON CARILLON. LONDON, Oct. 15. Allied newspapers obtained permission to temporarily instal Wellington carillon at Hyde Park at the end of the month to give recitals daily, for some weeks before shipment to New Zealand. BELGIAN EX-PREMIER.

LONDON, Oct. 15. Obituary—At Baden-Baden, Delacroix, ex-Premier of Belgium and delegate to the Reparations Commission.

FRAU ZOUBKOFF. PROPERTY AUCTIONED. (Received this dav at 1.0 p.m.) BERLIN, October 15. The property of the bankrupt Zoubkoff was auctioned at the Palace at Bonn the very day the news of the career of her husband as bar tender at Saarbrucken was cut short by the refusal of the Saar Commission to allow him to remain in the district. Zoubkoff is now going to Spain while bis wife is living in extreme retirement in a small villa at Bonn. The bids at the auction were unexpectedly low considering the association value of the many objects which were wedding presents or gifts from royalty. The present from ex-Queen Victoria inscribed from her grandma was knocked down for £lO. Less than £5,000 was realised for the day’s sale, wherens the Princess’s debts were £37,000.

BERNARD SHAW’S- VIEWS. (Received this dav nt 12.25. p.m.) LONDON, October 15.

Bernard Shaw at Plymouth at the opening df the residential hostel which Lord and Lady As cor have presented to the local University College, advocated the razing of Oxford and Cambridge to the ground and sowing the foundation salt. Several public schools, generally regarded as nurseries of Oxford and Cambridge, might share the same fate, unless it were preferred to use them as asylums for the mentally defective. The older universities should be replaced by local universities, whose loss of Oxford and Cambridge tone would be the outstanding virtue for centuries of university education, which has made decent Government impossible.