GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

.OTRANTO IN COLLISION, [United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph—Copy r i ght]. LONDON, March 30. The Otranto collided with the French steamer Bernardin de St Pierre, anchored at Port Said .harbour.. The Otranto’s damage is apparently slight find she is, proceeding on her; -voyage. Tire Sit Pierre will be surveyed. HOW THE BUREAU BEGAN. , LONDON, March 29. Regarding the Mayor of Southend's marriage bureau, it transpires that the Mayor of Southend, in a '.sympathetic moment, promised to help John Sinclair, an unemployed Halifax man, to find 1 a wife who-would givq him work. Hundreds of women offered to do this, as Sinclair could only take one wife and one job, some hundreds of other unemployment men wrote to the Mayor, expressing their willingness to wed the remainder of the women who had jobs as dowries. MUNICIPAL MARR1AGE,,......., .bureau, v ; LONDON, March 29. ' "The oi Southend; decided" to try q-ii experiment with a Matrimonial Bureau, but he has closed it in desperatioir.' He -received more than two hundred letters to-day. He states : sPThe business is beyond: us. Me.must ■stop.,' fsid not that, there. Rre -SQ ; mh.ity''pedpJenq'the world wishing to be married. I’ve definitely finished Avith 'this' Ctipid.business, bejng frightened of the consequeices. A bonfire will'be-made from the thousands of letters received.” A Glasgow man wrote: “I would like to get fixed up, because I am already £2l in debt.” A WAR ESCAPE. .

LONDON, March 29. Mr Leopold Amery told a re-unie: of the. Salonika Leaguers how he elutl ed capture after the Germans toi pedoed the Caledonia on which he wa returning from Salonika.. He„sotigh Jety. in a, ' small.; boat, -in which. h saw .ilie s^Bteat anq s g.approach" .’into a iittl (three c6rnej'edßsp.ace';iu--.,the.! 'sterh. | the boat. 'fjie/Germahs tqok llavernsham.,-a’nß several, r 'p^cerst;,priis oneii, bUt misse'cL him. ■ WOMEN’S DUEL. MEXICO CITY, March 31. -Another duel.between women for tin affection of a \mdn occurred when twe waitresses, fought with pistols foi 'Sergio Aug'uSto, a handsome cabaref cavilier. The duel was entirely ? •women's' affair. Each, had a 1 young woman friend as second, and it became a double duel when the '-seconds JUmped into the fray with knives. All fo,ur.mere jvoundegJ, , , ... THE FOX SENTENCE. LONDON, March 31. Sidney iFox is not a)ppea.Fing. It is understood,, an effort is Being, made to .1 commutei : .the sentence on-’ uthc grounds of liis mental condition. MR KELLOGG’S VIEW. NEW YORK, March 29.

Mr Fra, llk Kellog, ex-U.S.A. Secretary of State, addressing the Leaguo of Political Education, stated: n I know that .the people of this country are doubtful of the success of the London Naval Conference, but I believe that it would be unfortunate if there should be a general increase of armaments in the world, instead of the decrease. As a matter of fact , the greatest security lies in reducing all ngvies to. a point, where aggression is as long as, the people ol the''World 'ediitinue to’ -believe tliat war must be prevented and armaments reduced, conferences'will continue. .AYe: should not be discouraged if this conference does not accomplish everything the advocates of disarmament wish.: .No evil, old as civilisation itself, can be elimated in one or even in ten-years.