GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1932, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

MUCH TRAVELLED BOY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) .(Received this 'day at 1.5 p.m. l SUVA July 8. Harley De Gerald, aged thirteen, arrived from Vancouver on a six week’s tour of'Fiji. He is a son of a Chicago’ banker,and has travelled fifty thousand s miles since he was the age of six, unaccompanied. ■ • A DEADLOCK. ALMOST INCREDIBLE POSITION. LONDON, July 7. The “Tidies”. Lausanne correspondent says a deadlock without qualification -is the only description of thesituation after ‘to-day’s- negotiations.' Not an inch, of progress was made.' The Conference’s hesitations and in-1 decisions within a stones throw of a; settlementyare almost incredible. BOOSTING N.Z. . '< MR SCHMITT IN QUEENSLAND. ! BRISBANE, July 8. " An-enthusiastic audience of five bun, dred prospective tourists and New,;. 7ealanders, were-entertained at Cairnsat a 'lecture "concerning New Zealand scenics %. VMr Schmitt, (N.Z., Govern-ment.repr-esentative) who was 'iptro'-i duced by Mayor Collins. The opinion of the audience was I that the lecture was th© most interesting and informative ever delivered in this district. ... WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE REJECTED. PARIS,' July 7. The Senate, by 253 votes to 40, rejected women’s suffrage. WILL GO BACK TO POLITICS. LONDON, July 7. ’The New South Wales Agent-Gen-eral, Mr -A. C. Willis, has received notification of his recall, and states that he -will return to Sydney, though the date of his departure is not,fixed. .He intends "to take an active part -in Labour .politics.