GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

PRINCE OF WALES.

ENTERTAINING DELEGATIONS.

(United Press Association—By Electric , .Telegraph.—Copyright.)

LONDON, October 15

The Prince of Wales is giving a series of four dinner parties, to enable the Dominion delegates to meet well known figures in public life whom they otherwise would have no opportunity of meeting. He entertained South African and Free State delegates. The guests included Admiral Field and Rudyard Kipling. The Canadians me being given a, dinner on 17tli Octobei and Australians later.

POPE’S DISPENSATION.

LONDON, October 15

The British United Press Rome correspondent states the Pope has granted a dispensation to the King Boris-Princess Giovanna marriage cabled on 4th October. Both have pledged themselves in writing that any children shall be brought up in the Catholic faith, without exception.

A BIG BRIDGE.

OVER ZAMBESI RIVER

LONDON, October 15

The Colonial Office ; iV issuing a contract for a bridge over the Zambesi costing more than three millions. It will give a big impetous to the steel trade in North England. The bridge ‘will be 2$ miles long and thus is the second longest in the world, one in India being one hundred 1 feet longer The bridge is being built by the British and Portugese Governments and becomes Portugese property at the end of a hundred years.

WOULD-BE CANADIAN IMMI-

GRANTS

VANCOUVER, October 16

The liner “Niagara” is returning to Australia and New Zealand with twelve would-be settlers in, Canada. This is owing to a stringent ban haying been placed bn immigration by the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr Bennett.

One of the twelve is a New Zealand journalist, who had sufficient landing capital, but he is being deported because he is seeking work.

RASPUTIN’S DAUGHTER

PARIS, Oct. 16

Maria Rasputin, daughter of the notorious Russian, is now appearing in a circus at Bordeaux, exhibiting a troupe of performing ponies. Though stating that she is anxious to forget the past in circus life, Maria talked emotionally of the days when she wan a playmate of the Czar’s daughters. She honours her father’s name and indignantly- denies that he betrayed bis country or acted under foreign influence. Maria’s brother is at present exiled in. Siberia and her husband is dead.