GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1931, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

LONDON BANK VOTE: .United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, May 6. In tile Commons a resolution authorising the land tax was carried by 289 GUSTO MS NEIG OTIA TION S SUSPENDED. PARIS, May 6. The Australian Vice Chancellor, Scliober, informed the “Matin” that out of respect to the League of Nations, Austro-German customs union negotiations are suspended. SPAIN’S NEW PA Rid A MEN. MADRID, May GThe now Parliament will consist ol four hundred members, one representing fifty thousand inhabitants. Priests, women, and civil servants may be candidates. The voting age is twentythree. The. army will be of one hundred thousand, in eight divisions. CONFIDENCE MEN. GET THREE YEARS G.\OL. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 7. Charle s Ernest Robinson and an Australian, Edward Michael Cavendish, alias Norton, alias Naughton. were sentenced at Glasgow to three years penal servitude for delraudin.g a Glasgow business man of £2,090 by a confidence trie l '. Robinson " ,l s plaintiff in a Mister A case, when lie unsuccessfully brought an action against the Midlands Rank to recover £125,000 CHINESE OUTRAGES ON BRITISHERS. RUGBY, May 6. Replying to a question in tho House of Commons, .Mr Henderson said that during the last two years, fifteen British subjects were captured in China, all of whom escaped or wer o released. Eight others have been murdered, ami one, namelv Father Tierney, died in captivity. The National Government realised their responsibility for ensuring the adequate protection of British i subjects, and discharged it as far as they could. Most of the outrages occurred in remote places, where the Government, though they had jurisdiction, did not exercise effective control.

OVERDUE BOAT ARRIVES. NOVA SCOT lA, A lay 7. The Eleanor Boiling has arrived here from Barbadoes. CANADIAN TARIFF BOARD. ,r, >r. ... OTTAAVA, May 7,.,... The National Tariff Board intended to be a buffer between the consumer, manufacturers and growers which was abolished when the Bennett Government assumed power, is to ho re-estab-lished. Tlie Prime Minister announces tinnew Board is to be responsible to Parliament rather than to Cabinet, as previously understood, and the. new system provides for public bearings I with restrictions as to the nature of ! evidence. I BELGIUM DEFENCES. LONDON. May 7. In the course of a speech at Bmssells, the Minister of Defe nce, Brocquehille, said notwithstanding the Lo earno Pact guarantees, the Government had decided to construct a line of forts in front of the present line, to cost £2.270,000, with a further £1,710,(XX) on heavy artillery. BURMA POLICE DESERT. DELHI, May 7. It is now learned that the Burma police who were attacked, deserted Austin and two Burmese officers, when the rebels surrounded them. BY-ELECTION. LONDON, May 7. Scarborough by-election due to the resignation of the Conservative, Sidney Herbert, resulted:— 11. P. Latham (Conservative) 21.618 Ramsay Muir (Labour) 19,429