GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

EAST END FIRE, c . MUCH WOOL BURNT. > l L United Press Association.—by Electric telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDX, July 25. Approximately ten thousand bales of wool, principally Australian, were burnt in a fire at Brown and Eagles East End warehouse. BYE-ELECTION. (Received this dnv at 9.41) a.m.) SYDNEY, July 28. Final figures hi Lane Gove byeelection are:— Fitzsimmons (Nationalist) ... 7160 Hunt (Labour) 4990 The former received 1393 or Dunn’s preferences and Hunt 918. BIG THEFT. EARL MINTO’S JEWELS. london| July 27. The year’s biggest theft from a London mansion is the robbery of Reynold’s portrait of the “First Countess of Minto,” also a string of pearls and other-jewellery, of a total value of £32,000. sterling, from the house of Earl Minto in Mayfui'ri TOUR DE FRANCE. PARIS, July 27. Le Ducg won the Tour de France, of 4818 metres, in 172 hours 12 minutes, 22 seconds. EGYPTIAN SITUATION. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) CAIRO, July 27. A declaration of the so-called Parliament. wherein the Wafil appealed to the nation to refuse to pay Government taxes as long as the present Cabinet was in office, was not published in any newspaper. '. It is understood tliat Government are determined to prevent it. Cairo is being patrolled by steel helmefed ‘ police! * Parliament House is guarded by soldiers.

GERMAN INNOVATION. POLICE GAS CLOUD. BERLIN, July 27. (Received this' day at noun.) Prussian'police are' being armed with a “gas cloud” pistol which spreads a gas cloud, irritating the mucous membrane so greatly that the victim is shortly rendered unconscious, but otherwise uninjuc'ed. BRITAIN’S- QUEST. LONDON, Jul 26. Two things should be done at the Imperial Conference, said Mr Stanley Baldwin at Brighouse. In the first place an assurance that there would he no interference with preference should be given-to the Dominions. Secondly, said Mr Baldwin; a body should be established, composed of representatives of each of the Dominions and the Mother Country, to sit in permanent session, at the expense of the Empire, working always at those econ* omie and industrial problems in which the dominions and the Mother Country were inter-related. INDIAN FLOODS. WIDESPREAD DAMAGE. (Received this dav at 9.40 a.m.) DELHI, July 27. Over a hundred villages are submerged in Sind by widespread floods. The population of sixty thousand at Sliikarpur fled (panic stricken for twenty miles just before An enormous avalanche of water struck the town demolishing many houses. The town of Larkana is surrounded by water four feet deep. There is widespread, damage to crops and property.