GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1930, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

CAUGHT IN' MOLTEN LAVA. TWO GERMAN INVESTIGATORS KILLED'. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] BERLIN, Dec. 20. Professor Werener Borghandt and an ajssistant, who were carrying out clixiatio research work in Java, were being lowered into the crater of the volcano Merapi, which was supposed to have been extinct for forty years. The scientists proposed to test the temperatur© of the crater, but an outbreak occurred and both were caught in a mass of molten lava. Friends from a bridge above saw them both boil to death. VICEROY OF INDIA. LORD WILLINGDON APPOINTED. A LONDON, Dec. 19. Lord Willingdon, Governor-General of Canada, has been appointed Viceroy of India in succession to Lord Irwin, whose term of office is about to expire. The appointment has been received with. general approbation. Viscount Willingdon, who succeeded Lord Byng as Governor-General of Canada in 1926, is six.ty-three years of . age. He is a grandson of the first Viiscount;.,. Hampden,... famous as “Mr Speaker Brand.’’ As Mr Freeman Thomas, Lord Willingdon married a daughter of the late Earl Brassey, and represented Hastings and later Bodmin, in Parliament-. - He is a fine cyricketjer, ’and was, aide-dc-fcamp. to Lord, Brassey when the latter was Governor of Victoria. He was raised to .the peerage in 1910.' He. was Governor of . Madras from 1919 to 1921, after being Governor of Bombay from April, 1913. ..Lady, Willingdon received the Kaiser—Hind.,.Gold Medal in June, 1915, for her special work during the war, apd the Decoration of the Crown of India- in- January, 1917. A son fell in; the war. Lord Irwin, who was created a peer on his appointment to India in November, 1925, is ,forty-six years of age. He has been described as. “one of the greatest Viceroys and the greatest friend India has ever had. ”