GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

-.- COMMONWEALTH LOAN. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 8 a.in.) LONDON, November 22. The “ Moi'iiing Post ” says the Commonwealth' has now ten millions worth of treasury bills outstanding in London. The latest issue at 5$ changed hands in the market to-day at five per cent. : * LONDON SEANCES. TO TEST AUSTRIAN' “MEDIUM” ■: LONDON, Nov. 22. Attention is focussed oil the first of a series of seances being held at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research at South Kensington, which is an unofficial body for the purpose of testing a young Austrian, named Ridischnoider, who is said to be the most remarkable “medium” in the world. The tests will be most elaborate, and they will be conducted secretly, by six scientists, whose names are n,t to be revealed till they issue their report. SHIP’S CALL. LONDON, Nov. 9. The owners of the steamer “Baron Elcho’’ say that they are convinced there is an extraordinary mistake somewhere. When the shin left Port Said on Wednesday for Home with a cargo of sugar from .lava, she sent a message: “All well.” The officers and engine room men are nearly all Clvdesiders. The wireless operator is a Londoner, who was provided by the Marconi Cov. The crew are Lascars.

FIVE KILLED IN MOTOR CAR

WASHINGTON, November 22

A Dallas message states: His vision being obscured by a heavy snowfall, the first of the season in Texas, a negro chauffeur drove his motor car into the side of a fast-moving train, killing five white women passengers in his car, and seriously injuring himself.