GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1930, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES

LORO .STRICKLAND IN MALTA

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LONDON, June 24

“I have done my jdb. I did not fly t.n England for nothing,” Lord Strickland told an interviewer,, when expressing his opinion on the British Government’s decision to suspend Malta’s constitution.

Lord Strickland concluded smiling: “I would bet you six to' four that l am assassinated within a year.

ESTHONIAN PUZZLE

I 01S0N FAILS IN EXECUTION

BERLIN, June "24

The Estonian law, which gives to .criminals the choice of execution by poisoning or hanging, has created a difficult position in the case of a condemned man named Serge Vasilenko, who selected poison, and who is proof against the legal dose which is definitely specified. After a week’s pain, he completely’ revived, and he now refuses all invitations to be hanged.

The jurists, therefore, are searching for some legal loophole permitting his execution.

POLICE SUSPICIOUS. APIA, June 24

A howling dog early on Sunday morning woke some natives, who saw the Native Department offices at Mulinuu on fire, A bucket brigade of twelve Samoans smothered the flames. The damage was small. Police investigations now indicate a deliberate attempt at arson by persons unknown.

N.Z. TEST OF PARASITE,. LONDON, June 24

u, Um Entomological CorAjrenee, attended by the representatives of twenty-live countries, Dr Miller, from New Zealand, said that in the Dominion experts were testing a beetle from southern France to exterminate blackberries. It was the' gotze beetle, which could not lay its eggs on raspberry hark. Thus far it had been found only to attack a species of rose which does not grow in New Zealand.

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