GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

FRANCE RAISES DUTY,

[United Press Association.—By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright]

PARIS, April 10

American motor car importers in France had 'an unpleasant surprise yesterday when they found that the ■duties on imported cars had increased overnight by twenty-five per cent. It is stated, that the Customs Board took this action to prevent the threatened rushing over of thousands of American cars in order to avoid the new French Tariff Bill, widely operates in a few weeks time.

BUTTER SLUMP

N.Z. PRICES 118- PER CWT.

LONDON, April 11. The Australian and New Zealand Produce Board announces that the importers have now decided to sell the best Australian and New Zealand butter at 118 sto 122 s per hundredweight.

CINEMA DISASTERS. MOSCOW, April 11

A cinema fire in a travelling circus caused the deaths of twenty-two spectators at Volsk. Eighteen persons, mainly women and children, perished in a similar

disaster in the village of Nalimov o in the Urals.

FOUND GASSED.

LONDON, April 13,

An artist, AV. M. Atkinson Dewar, believed to have come from New Zealand to London on al visit, has been found dead in Marylebone, lie having been gassed. The deceased claimed that his work ivas inspired from the spirit av oriel. Soon after arrival, he made friends in spiritualistic circles, and he had had com r ersations with Sir A. Conan Dovle.

According to the Daily Express and books dealing Avith Psychic matters lay on the deceased’s bedside table. It was open at a Averse describing a meeting with a. spirit, Avith the lines heaA-ily pencilled. It is belieA r ed that he had relations in Auckland.