GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 8 April 1931, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

CARE TRAM STRIKE. I United Press Association—By Electra Ujjii * l £r lh *■ • CAPETOWN, April (i. A tram and bus strike dislocated traffic in Capetown during Easter. The Tram Company recently absorbed the opposition tins run to Seapoilit, and appointed Hughes ownin’ of tile opposition manager of Sea point section. 'The men refused to join th L . tram union and struck at midnight. Police guarded garages but the strikers succeeded in getting through a skylight of th (..headquarters depot and removed all the essential parts as well as deflating all the tyres. It. was raining to-day and the if till effect of the strike will not he felt until the resumption of business to-morrow.

SPEED SUPREMACY. LONDON. April G. Newspapers hail Britan’s recovery of the throe fold speed supremacy of air, land and water, represented by Kaye Don’s 103.-19 m.p.h., Campbell's 215.736 and Orlebar’s 357.7. 'The "Daily Telegraphs” emphasises that it is not without significance during the period of gravest depression that these three trades, motor ears, aeroplanes and motor boats have maintained comparative prosperity. No doubt, one of the main causes of tin* prestige of speed is apropos of the first air mail to Australia and ineidintally the number of diplomatic documents for the Australian Government that have been sent by air. CLIMBING EXPEDITION. LONDON April f>. An expedition iff live young men left London for India to climb the unconquered Himalayan peak, Mount Ivarmet. R-N.l-17 feet under the leadership of l l '. S. Smyth. Others are Captain St. .1. Birnie, R. L. Holdswortli, E. E. Shipton and Doctor Raymond Green. ARCMIBISHOPS CONFER. ATHENS, April 5. 'The Archbishop of Canterbury who is touring in Pierpoint .Morgan’s yacht ‘‘Corsair’ after an illness, had a long conversation wit lithq, .Metropolitan of Anthems, the leader of the Greek church in reference to the unity of Anglican and Greek churches. X.Z. -CANADIAN TRADE.

VANCOUVER, April 5. The Canadian pacific Raiiwa.v reports that New Zealand displaced Australia from second to third place in the list last year as Canada’s export market, the United Kingdom being first. Canada exported to New Zealand eighteen million four hundred thousand dollars of goods and to Australia fourteen million eight hundred and fifty thousand imports being suveenteen million five hundred thousand and four million six hundred thousand from countries respeelLely.

MURDER AND SUICIDE. BUCHAREST. April (j. I A policeman, Retro .Jaiieson, fatally threw his five months grandchild from a window of a second story flat and tlnni jumped out himself. Rising uninjured lie rushed into the house and jumped out of the window and this time he was killed. The child’s mother, who saw tile tragedy, went insane. TOC H. LONDON, April (>. A Ypre- message states tliac in the pi esc nee ci delegates .rom all parts ot tnc janpii ■, Loru YWikeluld op.nci.i me or.gn.al J ..x tl. Ininding at Poj.ermglie, lieigii in, which he had purclmsoit and ■e. tu,ed tu its wartime appearance, m- , in,nog ti e original cnapel. Uev. R. t. Leyton, accepting the gilt on behalf ol lor H., expressed the opinion that .ar into t) • future the house would cotiliuot to i xalt and unite many men’s minds. OBITUARY. LONDON, April 6. Obituary. \V. L. Wydie, the artist, also Dady Wyndliam, the dramatist.

OBSOLETE SHIPS. LONDON, April o. The “'The Morning Rost’s’’ iuiris correspondent says the Eranco-Italian naval accord is in serious danger over the question o, replacement ol obsolete ships, which was purposely kept in the background during Air Henderson’s negotiations with Italy, trusting it would be regarded as a secondary point, which could he settled during the drafting of the text. .Mr Henderson thus secured Italy’s adherence to the treaty though the discrepancy remained. It is now revealed that there are about seventy thousand tons short of the agreement, this being roughly the amount of French replacements. Freni h delegates say their claim was cornu iminted to Mr Henderson and they believe the Italians accepted, whereas Italian drafters say they have just heard ihe point for the first time.

MEMORIAL SERVICE. LONDON. April A King George was unable to attend the memorial service for the late Lord Stam’prdham. at Windsor Castle today. Clive Wigham succeeds Lord Stamfordlmm.

TRUSTEE STOCKS. LONDON, April 5. The "Morning Post’s” financial editor says a. great shock lias been given the holders of trustee secuiilies by Mr Lang’s repudiation, and it is scarcely surprising that the general question oi responsibility incurred by the Overseas Government under the ColosiaT Stock Act should be raised. 'The "Morning Post” quotes a correspondent who asks apropos of Lang, what guarantee there is that a similar crisis will not arise in the future. It points out that manifestly it is impossible for the British Government to permit a person ol such financial influence as Lang, hv virtue of his office, to cause widespread ruin to henofiriarie.y in what are often small estates. EMPIRE BILLIARDS. LONDON. April 6. 'The Control Council has .selected L. Steeples, of .Sheffield, the amateur champion, to represent England in the Empire championship at Sydney. AN INVITATION. BERLIN, April C. Britain has invited Brnening and Curtis to Chequers to discuss with Messrs .Macdonald and Henderson outstanding questions, including the Aus-tro-Gornmn customs pact, ft is understood that, the meeting will he field early in May. As tlu> proposal was broached before the A usira-Germa n pact was announced, it is assumed the discussions will include disarmament and reparations. THE ECONOMIC COUNCIL. LONDON, April A. A hint that the Economic .-uivisor.v Council had advised the Government to impose a tariff was given Inmember of the Cabinet, Hon. Alexander addressing a eo-operaUve parU at Blackpool. Alluding to Australia as an instance of Liu* incapacity of a protectionist country to protect workers, Hon. Alexander said:—"Summing ep tin* fiscal issue and taking into account the Economic Council's ad\ic* the view is that we cannot maintain the present standard of living. Wages must come down and if you dare not lace the industrial consequences o‘ such a policy you can do it by applying the tariff on the goods workers consume.”

Interviewed subsequently, Hon. Alexander denied intending to convex the idea that the Council had presented reports. He was merely quoting tin* widespread feeling of economists and industrialists. 'The "Reynolds News,” however, states that the Government Imd received and reject;.d the advice of the Council to impose a tariff.

ROYALTIES VISIT JA RAN. TOKIO, April 7. For the first time in fifty years, Japan was visited by a reigning Monarch. On the arrival at Yokohama u| the King and Queen of Siam they were saluted with twenty-one guns by the cruiser "Isu/.u” 'The station and plaza were densely crowded. 'The Rovalities proceeded to Kasuniigaseki palace where they arc* slaying with, the Emperor, who will confer a decoration o„i the King and Queen. Ail elaborate programme of functions is arranged.