GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

(United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) TOKIO, November 10. •..Evangeline Booth who is visiting Japan.had a huge welcome at .the City .Hall to-day. Members' of the Government were among the distinguished on the platform. NEW ARCHBISHOP LONDON, Nov. 10. Head, the new Archbishop of Melbourne, on leaving Liverpool on hoard tne Euripides,, received an enthusiastic send-off at the landing stage. Clergy present included Archbishop Houston, ' and- Canon Morley Stevenson. About a .'score of members of the Liverpool branch of the Old Coldstreamers.\ Assn, of which the Archbishop is an honorary member, presented him with a case of tobacco pipes. Replying, Archbishop Head said he hoped what he had learned from the Lokltreamers and other members, of the Guards Division of which be was senior chaplain, that would make him a better man and better fitted for the big job. '- Head was invited to send a message to Australia. He said: “Tell the people of Australia I am setting out full of hope, conscious of. all the wonder'flit 'sympathy 'promised me," ,and tj\e ]if].ie|,that^y§t^ajift has a trcthe Empire, and privileged to feel tcj share •'tlrerem/ u r - : ' L " forbidden- BOOKS'. v “ ROME, November 10. The first book to be published gt the ne.w printing,.wprks in Xhe ; Vatican City; sthojisancl books which Catholics’ are forbidden to read. .‘' A ' ' SAMOAN 'E'iILES. " : ' ' SUVA, Nov. 11. In connection with a Futuna trouble, two Kings and Stephen were sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, to be served in New Caledonia, and have also been banished from Futuna foi a further three years. } BATTLE IN CITY.. i\iEXibAN J Political RIVALS. ' •

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 10. Three persons were killed and itwelve were 1 seriously ' wotitided in ’i - violent r'chudi; between; .rival -r political parties in the centre of .the. city on •Suiiday. Five hundred ri’fle' aficl* pistol shots 'were 'fifed Muring' 'ft' • Tinllhour battle between groups totalling ten thousand. LORD CARRINGTON DEAD. LONDON, November 11. Obituary.—Lord Carrington, former •• GbveniordfeVietal “of Australia. • ,£ >r& FAMILY: m : RDER: t: ‘ ' BERLIN' November 11,. v A message from Cologne states a woman and her two daughters and son-in-law were sentenced to terms of two to ten years for murdering her husband whoso- tyranny-so incensed •the womenfolk Ihaßthgy persuaded the [so||ij/*lfiyir to'ijshc/ott ih4 : husband while Sffee fffhg. <!A f^ “BEARING” THE MARKET. (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK. Nov. 11. The market again crashed, reducing the stock valuation at least five billion dollars. In a frenzied last minute selling, the Vave “bears” caught the “bulls” off their guard. In the last half-hour, as the latter were joyful over the slowing down of the operations, the “bears” shot the support ■from under, the steel shares which toppled to a new low level, and on reaction to within touching distance of the lowest level for years. Stock after stock followed suit,;thousands of shares ’being, thrown overboard. The prices broke with iiinUehtirQ'i'-,lack of support until at the close the losses ranged to over twenty points. The tickers which had previously kept abreast of the market, fell half-an-hour behind.