GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

BANK RATE REDUCED

.United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

(Received this day at noon.) LONDON, Oct. 31. 7 The bank rate lias been reduced to six per cent.

A ’QUAKE

SHAKES JOHANNESBURG

(Received this day at ] l a.m.) CAPETOWN, Oct. 31. A severe earth tremor rocked Johannesburg this morning. The seismograph recording pen was thrown off its bearing. The disturbance originated in mines east of the town.

NOTED MAN’S DEATH

(Received this dav at 11 a.m.)

NEW YORK, October 31

News from Los Angeles states Norman Trevor, aged fifty-two, veteran stago screen and a member of the British Olympic team in 19G0, died to-day in a'Thdsp'itnl:. at Norwalk, California, from a contusion of the brain. He was born and raised in Calcutta.

ARMISTICE DAY

LONDON, Oct. 31

Tn the House of Commons, Hon A. Clvnes said there would be a substantial reduction in numbers of naval and military forces at the Cenotaph on Armistice Day, because of the increasing public feeling that the ceremonies should he of a civilian nature.

PREMIER MA CDONALD. LONDON, Oct. 31. Premier MacDonald, interviewed aboard the “Duchess of York,” said: “I now want to go to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, in order to complete the round voyage. It is impossible to snv when the visits are likelv to he made.”