GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

OHILjDREN KILLED. BY LANDING PLANE. . (United Press Association—By Electrir Telegraph.—Copyright ) ’NEW YORE, November 29. Landing a plane in the dusk on ice on a small lake at Edmonton, W. Sherlock, of Commercial Airways, swerved to avert running down some children who were playing, and the machine crashed into gas drums, behind which seven .others were playing unseen. Four of them were killed, and three were seriously injured. The passengers and airman were severely shaken. The plane was wrecked. DEBATE DESCRIBED AS DISAPPOINTING. LONDON, Nov. 27. “The Times” describes the debate iri the House of Commons afs disappointing and not illuminating. It says: “It was hoped that the Government spokesmen would state more fully wh.it the Imperial Conference had done and clear up certain points in the summary left obscure. It was hoped that there would he some account of.the Government plans to ensure that Ottawa, would be more fruitful than London.” BYE-ELECTION. LONDON, Nov. 29. The East Renfrew by-election resulted : Marquis of Clydesdale (Cons.) 19,653 Irwin (Labour) 12,293 Brown (Independent) ... 4,813 GRAVEYARD ROBBERY.

FOLLOWS AN EXHUMATION. PARIS, November 30. There was a touch of grim humour iu connection with a grave robbery at the Vancesson Cemetery. During the past week, as the outcome of a charge that a male friend of a wealthy women who died in 1928 had stolen her valuable jewellery, the police exhumed her body. When the coffin was opened, the woman’s jewelled braclets and rings valued at £640 were found to have been buried with her, as the man had insisted. The grave was then formally refilled, and the man was discharged. To-day, however, two robbers borrowed the grave digger’s tools, and they dug up the coffin and stole the let.. MR FORBES IN IRELAND. (Received this at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 1. Hon. G. Forbes accompanied by nis wife and daughter arrived at Kingstown and were received by the Minister of Defence „s(pd. President’s and Governor-General’s; Aides. - - N.Z. GOVERNMENT BILLS. ISSUE PLACED IN LONDON LONDON, November 28. New Zealand privately placed £600,000 in Government bills maturing pn March 14. Thelrate.was 2 3-15 per cent discount, which is only slightly above the rate at which British Treasury hills were allotfikl to-day.

£600,000 TREASURY BILLS. Wellington; December 1. On behalf o'f the .Acting Minister of Finance, Sir A. T. Ngata, in referring to the issue of £600,000 Treasury bills iu London, appearing in the cable news, points, out that the issue of these bills lias no relation whatever to the loan operations of the Government. These bills were issued in anticipation of a revenue contingency that generally arises at this time of the year. The Consolidated Fund lias not received revenue from the income tax. The bills mature on March 14, 1931, and therefore will be paid off before the end of the financial year. - The proceeds are to be used for general payments # in London, such as interest, etc... The terms on which the bills were sold at a discount of £2 3s 9d per cent., compare favourably with the issue of Imperial Treasury hills on the same day at the rate of £2 2s lid per cent.