GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 11 September 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

GAVE HIMSELF UPi CLERK EMBEZZLES £130,000 TUnited Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] 4 PARIS, Sept. 8. A solicitor’s clerk, wIL had boon employed by the same firm for twenty years, gave himself up to the police and confessed to embezzling £130,000 during several years. He had spent the money in betting. PANAMA CRISIS. CABINET RESIGNS. PANAMA, Sept. 10. The general election lias been defered in Panama, following on a political crisis involving President Arosemena and his Cabinet, which has resigned over a dispute involving the Minister of Education, tffio is persona non grata to the other Ministers. Police patrolled the city to-day, guarding the National Assembly Buildings, and keeping large crowds moving in order to prevent a surprise attack.

CANADIAN POLITICS. OTTAWA, Sept, 8. .. A second resolution proriding lor ainendments td fihe; Customs, Act;., aifid’s the application of thie dumping .Jaw of certain commodities, -will, be proceeded with. \ An unemployment resolution says that it is expedient’ . that a sum should be appropriated and paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the construction, extension or improvement of public works and undertakings, such as railways and highways. The address in reply to the speech from the Throne was adopted without a division. CANADIAN WHEAT. " '4k t: ifiv- • ,’• A. OTTAWA, September 10. The ./ dominion bureau?.: statistics estimates the'Canadian w'heat crop at 384,796,000 which 362,000,000 is. from the prairies. . TNTERNATIONAHPGLO. . , fogjfef-.s VANCOUVER, September 10. At- Westbury, United;’States retained the International Polo' Cup' to-day defeating Britain bjyfourteen to nine. STOLENk’pCTURES. yard. LONDON, September 10. The “Evening NteWs” ; says Scotland Yard dramatiofil]y Recovered eighteen Remenibraut.;. Reynolds and Rubens paintings,Vvalupd at twenty thousand sterling, which had been', stolen "in March from Qarlton -House''Galleries. The pictures were in- cloakroom ; apparently awaiting shipment abroad ’T . ■■ ■ ■■ " A'"

POLISH AFFAIRS. PARLIAMENTARIANS ARRESTED. Sept. 10. With a characteristic Pilsudski touch, twent-two menil>ers of the dissolved Parliament were suddenly arrested including the ex-Premier Witos and ex-Cabinet member BarKcki. This is supposed to.be a sequel to the recent decision of the oppositionists to make common cause against Pilsurski. who i-’ nervous as a result of the impending elections. It is rumoured that one hundred and twenty, places have been prepared at ... Brestlitovsk gaol for opposition Parliamentarians. U.S.A.; WHEAT CROP. WASHINGTON, September 10. The United States Agricultural Department lias issued a general crop report as at. September 1, estimating the 1930 corn crop at 1,982,865,000 bushels compared with a yield of 2,614,000,000 •bushels last year. The crop condition is reported’ to be 57.6 'per cent of the normal and compared with the ten year average 77.7 per cent. Wheat production iis estimated at 837,761,000 bushels. STEAMER LOST STRIKES A REEF. - 9.40 a.m.) CAPETOWN, September 10. The tramp steamer Malmesbury, bound from the Cape, loaded with maize, struck a reef near Cape Columbine in thick fog. A tug rescued the crow, and the steamer was abandoned.