GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

NO TITLE AVANTED

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(Received 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 29

The attitude of Bernard Shaw towards titles is conveyed in his Secretary’s reply to a Scottish correspondent who wrote saying that Scotland, England and Ireland would welcome with .enthusiasm Royal recognition. Shaw replied that lie has no reason to complain at a lack of recognition. He 'has been ,sounded thereon and definitely refused to bear any other title than the name, with which hi* work was associated. CRIME OUTBREAK. PARIS TAXI DRIVERS SUFFER. ■ (Received 11.15 a.m.) I’ARIS, Sept. 29. An amazing outbreak or crime against taxi drivers renders the occupation one of the most hazardous. There has been one or two more eases to-day, where drivers have been held up on. lonely • roads// after "j engaging, cabs. The attacks coincide with a regular crime wave in the capital. A proposal is on foot to alloiv taxidrivers to be armed.

A CAR jaURNXY, . .LONDON,,. Sept. 29. ~,A remarkable jbUrndy' ?in a ear co-sting twenty pounds sterling, was made’ from Cape to Cairo by tlie South Africans, Misses Margaret Belcher and Ellen Budgell, who arrived in London. The journey occupied six months. On one occasion they, were held up by lions which they drove off with their hooter.

KING’S AIOVEAIENTS. a

(Received this dav a + noon.), ■ RUGBY, September 29. The'(King avud Queen..leave Balfater, (Scptljapd, by the Royal train to-day for London on tfie conclusion of a six weeks holiday at Balmoral.

It undertsood the,King has .greatly bene.fitted by his stay in,the highlands. Qp . mpst days, during the latter .part of-Abe. holiday, lie.-. qu j-oyed ’the strenuous exercise of deer stalking frofn 10 .p’elqck:;;in the .morning until late in therrftfternoqii. - i : ;i <•>« , (I’he, return of thgiv Majesties to the south,-imarks the opening of, the AutuinA>i,Reason.' ■: r;;, • After a. banquet at Buckingham Pal-ace-on Friday to the Prime Ministers, attending the Imperial Conference, their Majesties will proceed to Sandringham, Norfolk, returning in a few weeks,. -.., f-. V. CHANGES FAITH.' j ' ;,IJ ' Septeinbcir 29. Tile ‘novelist E'vclyib Waugh is join- , ing..the Roman Catliolic Cliurch. SPANISH DEMONSTRATION. I- IK.’A'JJ’-T'. -t- i ' - "'.''.’“'fifC" .’ MADRID, September 29. .Grown law-officers a^e-,, examining the vtUfetvon reports of yesterday’s antiA.lonaijqbical speeches, ucTliq actual references to King. . were milu’ compared with the many ovations after the dictatorship. The real significance of the demonstration is the proof that it furnishes, that all the Republican parties are combining in the hope of forcing an economic revolution, with the aid of Socialistic and Reform parties.