GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1929, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

MEMORIAL TO QUEEN ALEXANDRA. ALLUSION TO ROSE DAY. tUnited Press Association.—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON. December 14. An alabaster portrait medallion, by Sir Bertram M’Retinal, based on studies executed in the late Queen’s lifetime, is the centre-piece in a memorial to Queen Alexandra that lias been erected in St. Albans Church, Copenhagen. The medallion backed with stained-glass windows, featuring roses, the allusion being to Rose Day, which Queen Alexandra introduced to assist the hospitals. The design also includes St. Elizabeth of Hungary, who devoted her widowhood to the service of the poor. fighting RHEUMATISM. TAKING THE SPAS TO THE PEOPLE. RUGBY, December 13. Early next year the British Red Cross Society intends to open a clinic in London for the special treatment oi rheumatic diseases. It will be able to deal with 12,000 cases a year, and will lie the first of a network of similar clinics which the society is to establish in industrial centres throughout the country. Since the working people cannot get to the spas the idea is to bring the spas to their homes. Nearly one-sixth of the industrial invalidity of Britain is due to rheumatism in its various forms, and the Ministry of Health are co-operating with the Red Cross Society in their attempt to counteract this malady. A PETITION DISMISSED. LONDON. Dec. 16. The Privy Council dismissed a petition for leave to appeal in forma pauperis, against the decision of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in the case of Power (Constable, formerly of Ross) versus the King. NO SOCCER TEAM. LONDON, Dec. 16. Replying to the New Zealand tootball Association’s request for a team to tour the Dominions in 1930 the Football Association regrets its inability to comply. DISPUTE OVER BOUNDARY. RIVAL MEXICAN BANDS FIGHT. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 16. As the result of a land boundary dispute, thirteen were killed and six were wounded in a battle on Sunday between rival agrarian bands 20 miles from here. DESTROYER BLOWN AWAY. FATE OF FOUR MEN UNKNOWN.

RUGBY, December 15. The destroyer Tormentor, which was being to,wed by the tug Security from Sheeriiess to Troon to be demolished, broke away from the tug in a gale and rainstorm last Friday. She was quickly blown out of sight. He crew consists of four men from Sheerness. There was no news of her until last night, when wreckage bearing the name Tormentor was found washed ashore at Menorbier, Pembrokeshire. The fate of the men is unknown.