GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

TEN MILLION LOAN

FOR BRITISH UNEMPLOYED

[United Press Association.—By Electric telegraph.—Copyright./

LONDON, July 15. In consequence of the mounting number of the unemployed, the. Oo»ermnent for the se-ond time m months, is seeking the authority of Parliament borrow .ten millions, thus increasing the Unemployment insurance Fund to sixty millions. KOREAN FLOODS. 126 DEATHS. TOKIO, July 15. Floods in Korea have been responsible for one hundred and twenty deaths by drowning, and there, are numbers of missing, including fifty priests of a temple, which was overwhelmed by a landslide. WOOL SALES. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON, July 15. At the Wool sales, New Zealand met with a better clearance than recently. Three stars super half-bred combing lambs realised 12£d. Balmoral scoured merino 261. WOOL STRIKE ENDS. LONDON, July 15. The wool workers strike has practically ended. Bradford Powerloom Overlookers Society is the last union standing out of the dispute regarding wage reductions, and has decided the men will report lor work tomorrow.

AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION

(Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 15.

A proposal by New Zealand and c V<”+h African agricultural unions to hold an Empire farmers convention in South Africa in 1932, was brought befor a representative’ meeting of British agricultural organisations and deferred, pending the Imperial Conference’s decisions affecting Empire trade and marketing. Canada and Australia will be asked to participate in the convention.

GERMAN PRESIDENT

BERLIN, July 15

President Hindenburg lias bombshelled politicals by announcing that he was not visiting CobleJrt, Treves, Aix and Weisbndeti to participate in the evacuation celebrations, because the Nationalist Stnhlehelm association is a prohibited organisation in the Rhineland, ALEXANDRIA STRIKE. ENDS IN SERIOUS RIOTS. (Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) CAIRO, July 15. ! A general strike at Alexandria which the Wafd instigated as a sympathetic demonstration for the victims of the riots at Mansourah and billeters, got out of hand. Youths broke shop windows and stoned the police, amid cheers of “Long live Nahas Pasha.” Europeans took refuge in the stock Exchange. The police fired on the mob from the rooif of the law courts, inflicting heavy casualties, the dead being removed in carts. It is reported that British troops have been summoned from Cairo.