GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

IS MOON HABITABLE

[United Press Association--By Electric Telegraph—Co py rght. ]

NEW YORK, April 28

Sir H. AVilkins to-morrow will attend a presentation at the American Museum of Natural History to the American Interplanetary Society of a he, :k entitled “Discovery of the new World”— a discourse tending to prove that there may be a habitable world in the moon, and concerning the possibilities of a passage thither.

This bon - was written in the year KUO by the explorer’s ancestor, John Wilkins, who was Bishop of Chester several of whose ideas on Antarctic meteorology Sir M. Wilkins has worked out from the Bishop’s manuscript.

BATTLESHIP CHANGES

LONDON, April 29

ft is understood that the Admiralty has selected the Shropshire to proceed to Australia in the autumn in exchange for the Canberra.

A SUDDEN DEATH

LONDON, Apr! ’'9

A spinster, Florence M/ ore, aged o“, died whi'e awaiting dinner at Bade Alice Coopers Park street house. It 's understood that she collapsed after reading a letter announcing the death of her brother in Australia.

NEWSPAPER C R TOON. LONDON. April 29,

David Low’s cartoon in the “Evening Standard ” entitled “ Another threatened fall in British exports,” depicts John Bull with a van load of tailor’s dummies, court-dressed and cock-hatted. Air J. H. Scullin is building a protect’on wall with a notice “No vice-regal hawkers.” He tells John Bull: “No governors to-day thanks, we’re thinking of manufacturing them locally.”

UNUSUAL AIR. ACCIDENT,

MECHANIC AND PILOT KILLED

LONDON, April 29,

A mechanic, (lying at Visbosq, was ■ot kj lucky. The parachute affixed to his hack suddenly opened at a high altitude plucking him from the machne and clashing him to death against the tail. The corpse sank slowly to the ground attached to the parachute. The plane lost balame and crashed ino the sea, killing the pilot.

A UTOiM \ TIC INSURANCE, MACHINE.

BERLIN, April 29. An engineer at Munich has inrented an 'automatic travel insurance machine, which shortly will he indrilled at leading railway stations. The traveller puts a penny or sixpence in the slot according to the cover desired, presses a finger on a special roll, which retains finger print to prevent fraud, and then receives a miniature policy showing the period of validity and amount insured.