GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

CAPE POLITICS. .United Press Association.—By Electric lo.egraph.— Copyright.; CAPETOWN, March 2* Tin* Union .Assembly carried the second reading of the Riotous As-.-emP.ics Bill, to cope with seditious tendencies among the natives.

T.xe Provincial' Council F Actions in the Transvaal have resulted m the elimination of the Cress weHite section of tli'e La,hour Party, and in substantial gains for the South African Party in constituencies that were heid by the Ministerialists at the general election i.:i June last. EARTHQUAKES. (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) TOKYO, March 28. Continuously repeated earthquakes have been rucking I'/ai and renin, particularly fto, lorty miles southwest of Yokohama, for a- fortnight past. Tiie inhabitants are panic stricken. Although the disturbances are at present local, their persistency is ominous, because they arc near the epicentre of the 1923 ’quakes.

TRANSVAAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS. CAPETOWN, March 28. The Council Election results created an awkward position for General Hertzog’s Cabinet, for all Croswell (Labour) party candidates have been defeated, including Creswell and Sampson (Minister of Posts), The Nationalists must supply t-he Chairman of the Council, thus creating even numbers 26—26 upon questions on which the opposition is united.