GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1932, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

CIRCUS MAX’S FAILURE. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NAPLES, April 17. SylmsitlHi', having f tiffed lq gacure the money to enable him to continue his circus, the animals were auctioned to-day. A deadlock resulted and Schneider burst into tears, a,s fifty-nine lions, and two tigers were offered at £3,700, ten lion cubs at £B4. Other animals and birds were offered at ..similar bargain prices, bff; there were ijo bidders. PICCADILLY CIRCUS. •RUGBY, April 17. Lamp standards, 26 feet high, and weighing 1 : ', tons each. were being erected in Picadilly Circus to-day, as part of the new electric lighting .system, which it is believed will make the thoroughfare the 'brightest place in Europe and the Empire. The power used will be 60,000 wn|:ts, or 1,000 times the power of the light which people ordinarily read by in their homes. KING’S CROWN. CLEANED AND REPAIRED. LONDON, April 19, The King’s Imperial Crown .worn on State occasions, has just spent three months in the hands of the cleaners and now looks more splendid than ever. It has also been made one inch taller. Experts cleaned and reset the 3000 jewels, including five rubies. 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, more than 1000 brilliants and rose diamonds, and 273 pearls. S : r George Youugliusband, Keeper of tlu> Crown Jewels, said that the height had been increased because of the necessity of reconstructing the gold framework, made for Queen Victoria in 1839. This had sunk until it was so insecure that it was uncertain whether the Crown would keep its shape when worn.