GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

A NOVEL CLAIM,

[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright],

PARIS, March 11

An insurance company lias paid a novel claim. A actress broke a pearl necklace and her pet dog swallowed the largest pearl, which was re.overed by means of an emetic, but it was diminished in size, presunurby partly dissolved in tlu? dog’s .stomach. 'The company paid the difference between the present value and the value of the gem before it was swallowed.

AYE AI /I'H llf ST CO ENTRIES

BERLIN, March ]1

According to the new edition of the Economic forces of the "World, issued by Dresdner Bank, countries which are showing, the greatest wealth per head of population are: United States, Canada. Australia. New Zealand, Britain and Switzerland.

DESI RI NO I>R EE ER ENTIAL'

TREATMENT

LONDON. .March 11

The Australian section of the British Manufacturers’ Association has cabled Melbourne headquarters: “Most distressed at the suggested tariff increase. Propose if the increase is deemed necessary, British goods should be excepted.”

GERMAN POLITICS

(Received this day at 11 a.m.) BERLIN, March 11

Anxiety that the Government would fail to obtain a satisfactory majority on the Young Plan in the Reichstag was dispelled by the Catholic Party at the last minute. This Party decided to support- the Plan as the Government had met its financial claims. The Bava'ian People's Party abstained from voting. The Communists tried to obstruct the Bill, but it was read a second time 1 1 v 251 to 174.

It is rumoured President Hindenhnirg rought pressure to bear on the Catlioics. because he felt he could not sign lie Young Plan and the Hague Agreeneut if they were passed only by a rare majority.

The Reichstag also passed the Australian and New Zealand War Time Property Agreements concluded at The Hague. .

COMMUNISTS IN TROUBLE. BUCHAREST, March 11. After the riots eight Communists have been sentenced. Their comrades threw detonators into the Court in the hope of rescuing the prisoners in the confusion. The police at the height of the panic, locked the doors and frustrated the plot. The crowd tried to lynch the Communists.

£IOO,OOO DAMAGES,

NEW YORK, March 1

The jury awarded £IOO,OOO damages to Mrs Adelaide Gibbons, who sued Mrs Blnnce Powell for alienating her husband’s affections. Gibbons is a lawyer while Mrs Powell is a widow of a Canadian lumberman possessed of several million dollars.