GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

PRINCESS MARY

TO LIVE AT HAREWOOD HOUSE

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LONDON, December 31

Princess Mary will in future live at Harewood House, near Leeds, says the “Daily Express,” the Earl of Harewood, formerly Viscount Lascelles, having decided to let Goldsborough Hall and move into the ancestral liom,e of the Lascelles family.

EGYPTIAN CABINET

CARTO, January 1

Nalias Pasha has formed a Governmen. The ministry’s main objectives wil linclude Egypt’s real independence, with an honourable stable agreement with Britain, combined with amicable policy towards , all foreign Powers.

OBITNARY

LONDON, January 2. Obituary—Bev. Mark Guy Pearse, a prominent Methodist minister.

VANDYOK MASTED PIECE STOLEN

REMOVED FROM ITS FRAME.

LONDON, Jan. 1

A Vandyclc masterpiece, “Concert Des Anges,” valued at £20,000, was dispatched a few days ago from Brussels to London and addressed to Godfrey Phillips, art dealer, i's missing. When the packing case was opened, it was disclosed that the picture bad been completely cut out of the frame. Hie lowtner, Monsieur Bejchbache, says that the picture was only insured for a quarter of its value. This recalls the former theft of another famous-Vandvek at Courtrai in "December, 1927, which was similarly cut from its frame. Later it was sold to a Bruges hawker for four shillings. The thief was eventually sentenced to four years’ imprisonment.

INDIAN CONGRESS

DELHI, Dec. 2

Despite the order of the Congress, the Committee to-day are meeting and calling for the withdrawal of members from the Assembly and Councils. It is uncertain" whether the mandate will be generally obeyed. Jan. 26th. has been fixed as Independence Day for the holding of demonstrations throughout the nation supporting the new Congress policy.