GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 31 December 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

STORM DAMAGE

ON CAPETOWN COAST.

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

(Received this day at II a.m.) CAPETOWN, December 30. Furious storms lushed Vlie coast during the week-end. The Sutton Hall carrying one hundred live cattle, wirelessed that she was returning with her cattle stalls broken. A large fishing boat and crew of four are missing and it is feared are lost. A mail steamer has not coaled at Mussel Bay bringing passengers and cargo. Rain at Mauritius terminated in a thunderstorm. Port Louis was plunged into darkness owing to a flooded power station. The water was eight feet in some houses sweeping the contents of the street to sea. The town to-day is a scene of pitiful desolation. A BOYCOTT CALLED. DELHI, December 3l). Indian National Congress is through its subjects. The committee definitely decided to support Gandhi’s motion for independance and the boycott of legislation. Pandit Jawahnrlal Nehru in a presidential address appealed to the country to sever the connection with Britain, for the attainment of which he advocated non-payment of taxes in specific areas, calling of general strikes by workers, and the complete boycott of the legislatures. OBITUARY. LONDON, Dec. 30. Obituary—Eva Munro, aged 28, whom New Zealanders visiting London remember in charge of the mails at New Zealand House. She complained of pains in the head on 27th. Dec. and wont home and died of meningitis on the 29th. A NEW LAND. OSLO, December 30. A repetition of the original message from Larsen on December 27, discloses a mistake in wireless transmission. The new .land discovered is a strip one hundred kilometers between Enderbv and Kemp Lands, not Coatesland. Part appeared to be mountainous. A SOVIET DIFFERENCE. RIGA, Dec. 30 A conflict lias arisen between Litvinoff and Menzliinsky chief of the Ogpu, who announced his determination immediately to search the' houses of business men and also the dwellings of all foreigners in Moscow, Lenninigrud and other centres. M. Livinoff is trying to persuade M. Stalin that M. Menzinopportune, when the Soviet is attempting to improve relations with Foreign Soviets. 1 M. Stalin is, reported to share M. Litvinoff’s opinion resulting in a likelihood of the resignation by M. Menzshinskv, which will enable M. Stalin to reorganise the Ogpu and curtail its powers which would he impossible if Menzliinsky remained.