GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

SIR. JAMES PARR. RETURNING IN JANUARY. (United Press Association. —ByElectrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, November 12. Sir James Parr (New Zealand High Commissioner) speaking at .a meeting of the New Zealand Association, announced Hon. T. M. AVilford’s appointment as New Zealand High Commissioner. Sir James Parr said' that he was returning to New Zealand in the first week in January. He will be the guest at a luncheon to be given by the Association on December 16.

A DISTURBANCE IN ITALY

PARIS, November 12.

Grave troubles are reported from the interior of Italy ‘owing to a high cost of living and shortage of food. There was a nine days’ revolt at Yulmona, where the Governor was killed, the Town Hall and barracks were burned. A strong body of Fascists fought a pitched battle, in which five townsfolk were killed and one hundred were injured.

PLAYING FIELDS FOR ENGLAND

LONDON, November 12

The Duke ofYork,;, speaking at the National Playing Fields’ Association, said that four years’ work had resulted in .the establishment of forty-three country branches, where 427 schemes, involving a capital expenditure of £1,150,000 had been formulated. Money gifts, including £200,000 from the Andrei Carnegie Trustees, had been received to help with the provision -of playing’fields.; '

:■ VA FRENCH NAVAL' TRAGEDY

LONDON, November 12

The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent at Toulah states that three sailors were killed in a boiler explosion on the French torpedo boat “ Trombe ” during manoeuvres off Corsica.

NORWAY’S VIEWS

OF NO MAN’S LANDS

OSLO, Nov. .13

Irv a policy speech, the Norwegian Prime Minister, Mr McWinckle, referred to polar expeditions; He said that Norway . has always maintained that the territory which has not been occupied, both de jure and de facto, by Another nation, should be regarded as a lio man’s land. Norway applied that principle to the Arctic and the Antarctic, including Francis Joseph Land, where she considers that her citizens are entitled to carry on hunting and fishing unhampered by any foreign nation.

WIND-JAMMER- ASHORE. (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 13. The famous wind-jammer “Garthpool” is ashore at Boavista, Cape Verde Islands. It- is stated there is no hope of salvage. All the crew were saved. •

ACTING GOVERNOR, APPOINTED

? ' INTEREST CREATED; v, >: ■■ • ' -* ■ ■ ' v ,«s T V

(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) DELHI, Nov. 13

Interest is created in political circles in India by the appointment of Hon S. B. Tambe, senior member of the Governors’ Executive Council, as Act-ing-Governor of the Central Provinces, pending the resumption of office by Sir Montgomery Butler. This is tire first time since Lord Sinha’s appointment of Governor Bihar Orissa in 1920 that an Indian has been given a provincial honour by tlie King of his own choice.

It is likely, that Tambe subsequently will be knighted.