GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 2 April 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

A POSER FOR DOCTORS. le.egraph.—Copyright.; BUCHAREST, March 31. A woman, aged 28 years, is puzzling the stall of the Cluj Hospital. She was already sevent.v-six inches high when she recently began to grow taller, thus rendering her unhappy, owing to the attention that she attracted in the streets, so she entered the hospital and asked the doctors to help her to stop growing. ( , INDIAN RIOTS. TWO SHARP ENCOUNTERS. (Received this dav at 1.1 a.m.) DELHI, April 1. Two sharp riots occurred at Calcuta when carters bitterly resenting ihu receiil, legislation reducing carryablc loads of bullock and buffalo carts unhooked the cars and blocked 'toads and tram lines in the busiest part of the city. They received the police with showers of brickbats. The mo!) getting out of hand, the police lived. Two hours later a more serious riot occurred. The total casualties known are five killed and sixty injured, including a number of police. In fact, the Commissioner estimates that ev« t y second policeman was hurt. OBITUARY LONDON, April 1. Obituary—Frau Cesima Wagner, widow of Richard Wagner, aged 73 years.