LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1931, Page 3

LATE CABLE NEWS

SWEEPS OR NO SWEEPS? LEGAL BATTLE IN BRITAIN. LONDON, February 28. The question whether the 1 sale o. tickets for the Irish “Sweeps” is legal or illegal was raised in the King’s Bench Division of the High Court. John Moore applied tor a rule calling upon the registrar of companies to show cause why he should not register a company called Irish Hospital Sweeps, Ltd. Air Beyfus, for Moore, safd the registrar refused on the ground that the company was unlawful. He argued that the Acts, under which the Home Office was taking action, were designed to prevent foreign and private lotteries at a time, a century or more ago, when lotteries were an ordinary methods of raising revenue.

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Hewart, said: You may take the rule at your peril. When Herbert Lee. of Birmingbam, -[ps ,io | sqsoo so puff OUT pong siP\i ing Irish sweep tickets, the prosecution said that the Post Office had stopped £258, with counterfoils, on the way from to Dublin. CANNING INDUSTRY. BRITISH UNDERTAKING. ' LONDON, February 27. Connors from Australia will instruct workers in the canning of fruit and vegetables in tbo Vale. of Evesham, says the correspondent of the “Daily Mail.” It is hoped that the factory will turn of 60,000,000 tins a year. It will begin production in two months’ time.

The equipment imlndes a lacquering process for tins patented by Air r \ E. Williamson, son of the founder of the firm, ft is proposed to can peas, pears, plums, strawbei'ires. raspberries and oilier fruit and vegetables, SHOT AT DANCE. VTCJTIAT OF GANGSTERS. NEW YORK, February 28. Forty shots from bandits’ guns interrupted 1000 participant* in a competition dance here. Despite th" crowded floor, the bullets found only the intended victim, Charles Harm's, who died in his sweetheart’s arms, while.’the dancers sought shelter beneath the tables, women crying and men shouting. Nobody lias been arrested, and it is thought that the gangsters invaded the hall, mingled with the dancers, completed their task, and then concealed their gnus. Since the start of the New Year .mug disorders have accounted for 28 lives, Including those of five women, in New York City.

POLITICAL AMENITIES. ONE LORD TO ANOTHER. LONDON, February 7. “Lord Beaverbrook has compared in - to an elephant trumpeting in the jungle, or a man-eating tiger. I am inclined to compare him to a mad dog running along the streets, yapping and harking,” declared Lord Hnilshnin (Con,, formerly Sir Douglas Hogg), speaking at the East Islington byelection. “The best way to treat such an nininal if one cannot muzzle him is to shoot him!”

POLICY DECLARED. NEW SPANISH PRIME MINISTER STATES AIMS. IM PEND INC ELECTIONS. MADRID, February 28. “1 have been a sailor for half a century. T am accustomed to plain speaking and discipline,” said the new Print'* Minister of Spain. Admiral Aznar. in the first article written by him since has acceptance of the post. “We are Monarchists,” he went on. “but we will respect the opinions of the Opposition, if they are expressed in the manner prescribed bv law. “I am outside party. Mr Ministers belong to all sections of Monarchists. Count Romanones and others belong to the Left. General Berenguer is no party man. Impartiality is assured. T shall first hold municipal, then provincial, finally legislative, elections, for the bicameral Cortes, as the history of Parliamentarism shows that a single chamber is inclined to abuse its power.”