GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

SECRET AfARRIAGE. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON, Jan. 30. Countess Hoafield was secretly married on Friday at Flint, Michigan. BANK PRESIDENT SENTENCED. (Received this day at 9. a.m.) LONDON, Ja.ii. 30. John Camp Senior, vice-president of tlia Lilian .Industrial Bank was .sentenced to ten years, and nine other bank officials were convicted of stealing £7o*/. 0,0 lost in Wall Street. The president of the Bank is a Genera.l .Niters multi-millionaire and made the losses good as far as the p..l)iic are concerned. EPIDEAIJ.es IN TOKYO. TOKYO, Jan. 30. There arc epidemics of typhoid, diphtheria and scarlet fever at Tokyo. Hundreds of each arc officially reported. Despite strenuous combating by the authorities the infections are spreading which is attributable to the unseasonable dryness of the weather. JAPANESE RETRENCHMENT. (Received this day at 9. a.m.) TOKYO, Jan. 30. Following Government injunctions to utilise Japanese products instead of imported, 373 items used by the Railway Department are now officially listed for compulsory use of home made supplies, thereby causing a reduction of over eighty per cent in foreign articles used by Railways, and tbe substituting of Japanese for these. This is due to. retrenchment and business depression. The decrease in the income of government railways is the biggest in history, whereas normally there was an annual increase of ten per cent. The recent twelve months loss of income approaches twenty millions.

PRINCE’S AFRICAN TOUR. CAPETOWN, Jan. 30. The Prince of 'Wales left to-day for Johannesburg, where he will spend a few hours prior to leaving for Beira, where ha takes the steamer for Mambassa from where his shooting trip will begin. OBITUARY. LONDON, Jan. 30. Obituary.—The Marchioness of Reading. APPEAL AGAINST SENTENCE. (Received this dav nt 10 a.m.' LONDON, Jan. 30. Hatry is appealing on the grounds that Ills sentence is too severe. ALLAHABAD FAIR. DELHI, January 30. Yesterday was the greatest day in Allahabad Kumbh Mela fair. It is officially estimated that four and a half million persons’ bathed in the Ganges. A tragedy was narrowly averted when a young male elephant became fractious, gored a female elephant and ran amuck trampling on huts which soon caught fire, the mahout clinging despe-. rately to the elephants tail. With two million people packed in a space two miles long and one mile wide, there was an imminent risk of scores of casualties, but thanks to the resource of the magistrate and superintendent of police, the beast was ultimately recaptured.