GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1932, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

SUGAR OUTPUT RESTRICTED

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)

BRUSSELS, April 1

The dispute between Java and Cuba regarding sugar production, has been settled, both accepting the European and Peruvian representatives’ proposal, to reduce their respective exports by the amount Java produces in excess of 1,500,000.

SHIPPING CHARGES

REDUCTIOns announced

BRUSSELS, March 31

The North Atlantic shipping conference adjourned without coming to a decision. In the meantime United States and White Star Lines have already pronounced fifteen to twenty per cent, reductions.

LIONESS IN RESTAURANT. April 1, There was an exciting scene in a smart restaurant, when a lioness escaped from a cage, Panic began, women fainted and others rushed to the exits, when Ladies Oxford and -Mount-Batten and Dame Du Boimett, known as the best dressed women in Europe joined forces to calm he diners. The called on the orchestra, to play merry jazz. The tamer and manager lassooed the lioness, and returned her to the cage.

MME. KUBELIK’S LOSSES

VIENNA, April 1

The wife of Kubelik, the violinist, when examined regarding her bankruptcy, . said that the liabilities amounted to £30,000, due to depreciation of American and French shares. She offered her creditors 35 per cent.

GERMAN DUTIES.

LONDON, March 31

German has decided that the maximum duty on Australian fruit will he fifteen marks per case. Official circles in London anticipate an early announcement that Australia will receive the most favoured nation treatment, with.a duty of seven marks which New Zealand already enjoys.

JAPAN’S AGGRESSION. this day -at 9.25 a.in) (LONDON, March 31. ■ The well-known publicist, Mr Wickham Steed, in an article in the “Nineteenth Century,” gives a warning that Britain is sowing the seeds of a serious crisis for her own interests in the Far En.-t by not sufficiently opposing the aggressive Japanese militarist pol-

ENQUIRIES

INTO DE (!I.DOT’S PAST

LONDON, March 31

The Australian Press Association understands that at the New South Wales Government's request. Scotland Yard detectives are inquiring into De Grout’s career in Britain