GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1930, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

BRITT SH BYE-ELECTION,

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LONDON, November 21

The Labour Executive having refused to endorse the candidature of Mr Invin, an Independent Labour Partyite, for the Eastern Frew byeelection, five of the Leftists, including Messrs Alaxton and Kirkwood, have gone to Scotland to work on Air Irwin’s behalf. OBITUARY. IfONDON, November 21. Obituary—Dame Mary Scharlib, Governor of St. Mary’s College Paddington, and consulting surgeon to various hospitals. She was the author of a number of medical works.

HON. G. FORBES

LONDON, November 21

Had Hon. G. Forbes been an earlier riser he would have got a suit of clothes free. He arrived at Montague Burton Mills Leeds at 9.40 in the morning. The Directors told him that if he had been ten minutes earlier a suit could have been made to measure and presented to him by eleven, when he was due to leave. They added ‘that fifty per pent, lof the wools used in the firm’s mills came from New Zealand.

Subsequently Mr Forbes carried out an inspection at the invitation of the Research Department of the British Woollen Worsteds Association at Headillgly,

TRAIN DERAILED.

CHINESE COMMUNISTS WORK SHANGHAI, Nov. 21.

In an attempt to wreck Nanking* Shanghai express, Communists removed four lengths of rai ! s. Foui coaches were derailed and lour Chinese killed, scores being injured. The attempt is attributed to a report that Ohanghsuchliang, the Mukden War Lord and staff, would be aboard the train. U.S.A. BANKS CLOSING. BY THE DOZEN. NEW YORK, November 20. Eight banks closed their doors ir North Carolina to-day, including the Central Bank and the Trust Company of Ashv'lle, with book resources of more than twenty million dollars. Two more Kentucky banks have also closed, bringing the total in that State to thirteen in the last tfew days.

THE WOMEN’S PART.

LONDON, November 20.

At the India Conference the lady delegate Shah Nawas, was gracefully robed in pale blue and white.

Sar emphasised that the so-called East was no longer unchanging. Ten years ago, nobody would have thought that Indian women could go to London to participate in a political conference. Yet to-day, not only a Hindu woman, but also a Moslem woman belonging to a family which observed the strictest “Purdah,” sitting at the round table, with her brethren in evolving a constitution. She added that the women of India, which as a reviving nation, must rejoice at its awakening, but they must also realise the tremendous responsibility of guiding the younger generation along a straight road. GOODWILL TRIP. . THE MALOLO ARRIVES. SYDNEY. Nov. 22. The Malolo arrived this morning from United States with American tourists on a goodwill trip. She Hi later visit Now Zealand. A SAD TRAGEDY. THREE SISTERS DROWN. (Received this dav at 10 a.m.) VANCOUVER. Nov. 21 Three sisters at Run la. Monica, inseparable companions since the youngest was born sixty years ago, one of whom is blind, waded together into the Pacific Oc">an and were drowned, because of stock market lossrn and inability to pay taxes. Only in d-ath were the women ever separated. The bodies of two were recovered, lh>‘ third being missing.