GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

A STEAMER. AFIRE. -

(United Press Association. —-ByElectric Telegraph.—Copyright.;

COLOMBO, March 13.

A fire aboard the Commorin is believed to be due to spontaneous combustion. Much, of the cargo is already damaged. The hold was flooded.

woman hunger striker;

PARIS, March ;13

The woman Hanau is. so weak that she has had to bo removed from tlie women’s prison at Saint Li/.are to tlie .Cochin Hospital. She has been on hunger strike for weeks. She was imprisoned over a year ago, on a murder charge, but has not yet been put on her trial. •

CHURCH MINISTER DISMISSED

GUILTY OF HERESY

(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) CAPETOWN, March 13

The Dutch Reformed Church stood Iby an overwhilming majority and found the Reverend Duplissis, Professor of Theology at Stellenbosch Seminary guilty of heresy and demised him from the staff. 'He ns allowed full salary until his pension is due provided he abides by the verdict. He ceases to propagate modernist views through his church paper, and does not accept service as a Minister..- An appeal to y the.. civil court' is probable.

A NEW v PEANET. -

“ (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 13. A message from Cambridge states Professor Harlow Sliapley, Director of Howard Observatory, announced today word from Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, (Arizona), reported the discovery of a ninth planet in the solar system beyond Neptune, probably larger than the earth but ■: smallei than Uranius.

NON INFLAMMABLE FILMS DEMANDED.

LONDON, March 12

Tlie Paisley cinema panic, resulting in the death of seventy children (as cabled on January Ist) - has caused the .Renfrewshire Education •. to strongly ....-demapd legislation ip ensure that only non-inflammable films shall be used when the spectators are mainly children. Seventy-eight similar authorities throughout the country, and also the National Union of Teachers have forwarded their motions to the Prime Minister.