GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 22 September 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

I, ’PHONE ROBOT. AUTOMATIC MESSAGES. ("United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph .—Copyright. ] BERLIN, September 12. A new telephone, successfully tried out, records a message in handwriting .when the receiver is not lifted, simultaneously lighting a red lamp, which remains lit until the message is removed. CUPID THE STRONG. AFTER TEN YEARS. LONDON, September 10. Dr. Desmond Moore, of the West African Medical Service, has remarried his first wife, Kathleen, who divorced him ten years ago. Until a fortnight ago they had not seen each other for 12 years. Dr. Moore, who is 39, is tall and dark, and his wife, 37# is slender and fair. They had separated after six weeks ' of married life and were divorced a year after the birth of a son. Dr. Moore went to Nigeria and Mrs' Moore remained, in London. They did not correspond until recently, when Dr. Moore returned on.."leave; ; “When I met him I saw he was ill and needed looking after,”- declared Mrs Moore. “Somehow we did not say much—we just knew the long separation had Glided, and that we were'' not going to waste any more of, oiir lives.” ... , ; THE BABY PRINCESS. LONDON, September 19. The “News Chronicle” explains there has been a delay in christening L ';o baby Princess at Glamis Castle, st-Un? tb.at it is dug to a Presby-terian-Anglican disagreement. The Scots, it. says, consider that as the baby was born in Scotland, she should be baptised according to the ceremonies of the Presbyterian Church. The Anglican ecclesiastics on the other hand, are anxious/ that she should be christened either .at Buckingham Palace or at . Windsor Castle, where the Archbishop of Canterbury would perform the. ceremony.

DUTCH CHURCH DISPUTE.

CAPETOWN, Sept'. 19

A complicated case arising from the dismissal of Professor Duplessis from the theological seminary at Stellenbosch by the Dutch Church Synod, on tlie grounds that he preached heretical doctrines, lias been advanced a stage by the. decision of the Supreme CJourt, which found pluintifF having, submitted himself to Church tribunals on questions of doctrine outside of the jurisdiction of a civil court, the case had consequently 'been limited to irregularities of procedure.