GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENT

[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] RUGBY, Jan. 21. The King has approved the appointment of Sir Janies Macleay, Envoy at Prague, to be Ambassador at Buenos Aires. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. CEASES TO FUNCTION. DELHI, Jan. 22. A deadlock between the Government of India and the President of the Legislative Assembly continues. All of the galleries of the Assembly remain locked. In view of the number of resignations of the Swaraj .Party after the Congress demand for an independence, the House, for .the. time being, has virtually ceased to function. With the Viceroy’s return to Delhi to-morrow, and the fact that he is due to address the Assembly on Saturday, the situation may become acute. HUGE HAUL OF SMUGGLED OPIUM. WELTEVREDEN, Jan. 23. A revenue officer here lias seized nearly twenty thousand pounds worth of opium, which was smuggled in cement barrels. armed HOSTILITIES IN CENTRAL AMERICA. NEW YORK, Jan. 22. A message from Tegucigalpa, in Honduras, states that ’ the Foreign Minister of Honduras has announced a mobilisation of Honduras troops in order to dislodge Guatemala troops, which are alleged to have occupied Honduras territory. THE ECONOMISTS ENGAGEDLONDON, Jan. 23. It is understood that Mr Ramsay MacDonald’s whole-time Economists are likely to be Mr H. D. Henderson (formerly editor of The Nation), and Mr J D. H. Cole, Reader in Economics at the University of Oxford. Mr Cole: recently was described by Mrs Snowden as a possible future Prime Minister.

WOOL SALES. (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 23. At yesterday’s wool sales 122/ New Zealand bales were sold. FRUIT CONSUMPTION. LONDON, Jan. 23. “1929 showed a record consumption of fruit in Great Britain,” says the Empire .Marketing', Board’s rc/port. The total of imported and home supplies amounted to 34,433,000 cwt. A HOLIDAY JAUNT. (Received this dav at 9. a.m.> SUVA, Jan. 24. Hon. Henry Marks (Mayor ol Suva) arid his,wife, left in the Niagara to-day for Auckland on a seven months tour of the world. Hon. Alport Barker (deputy Mayor) is acting during his absence.