GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

HIGH COURT COMMENT,

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i)ec6mber 20,

In connection with' Dr Evatts’ and Mr AlcTiernan’s appointment. to the High Court of Australia, Mr Boyce, an Australian, who is a member of the House of Commons and who was a contemporary of Dr Evatt in Australia, commented: “It is a shock to Australians who, are in public life here. An Australian can little realise the magnitude or, seriousness of repercussions upon Australia’s credit, at the very moment when its credit is. more, embarrassed. in Britain .and in the wp'rld,, at large than , for the last thirtyfive years.' .. It. is unpleasant reading for the House of Commons as it .is Rising, for its Christmas adjournment, following on a succession of. reports of Australian conditions which have made it extremely difficult for us, whose main object, as members of the Mother of Parliaments, is to safeguard at all costs, and enhance wherever possible, the prestige of God’s Own Country.”

JAPANESE SENTENCE.

TOKIO, December 21

Kobashi, former Minister of Education was found guilty in April last of receiving bribes from a railway company -and sentenced to -imprison*ment for ten months and fined ten thousand sterling, but his incuceration was deferred for two years.

A BARQUE’S LOSS, UNLUCKY ITEMS.

(Received this day at 9 a • LONDON, December 21.

Once a passenger Carrier and later a well known trader to Australia the bargue Shakespeare recently grounded in the Baltic and was given up as a total loss, while bound for London with Finnish ’firewood.

A Britjsh mate, L. P. Marshall, who was compelled to servo under a foreign flag in order to qualify as A pilot, diving to the absence of any British square rigger said “I am afraid we asked for it! We sailed from Pitea in the Gulf of Bothnia on a Friday with thirteen of a crew. The ship’s cat deserted on the last day in port. The Shakespeare sprang a leak and twelve hours pumping daily was unable to cope with the inflow. Fog and heacl winds" continued till the vessel stranded on Friday.” Seven Seas Club has a Shakespeare’s hell for summoning members, to dinner.