GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1932, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

PRIME MINISTER ILL. (United Press A isociation—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, December 14. Rt. Hon. Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister caught- a cold while on the Continent and -lie remained indoors on Tuesday. His doctors, who paid him regular periodical visits on Tuesday morning, found bis health to. be otherwise good. He presided over Tuesday moiniiig’s Cabinet meeting and hoped to attend the House of Commons next day for a • debate on the war debts. WOMAN’S SUCCESS. \ LONDON, December 14 Miss Barbara- Flower, aged twenty years, an undergraduate of Saint Margaret HaJl lias wop the Craven Scholarship, which is the ni’OSit coveted classical award at Oxford. Tin's is the first time that a woman lias been the victor. Miss Barbara Flower, . who speaks French, German and Celtic 1 in addition to Latin and Greek, is a (laugher ot Doctor Flower, Deputy-Keeper of Manuscripts at the British - Museum. CYCLIST INJURED. SYDNEY, December 14. William Lamberton, aged 21 years of Canterbury, New Zealand, who was a competitor in dirt track races here previously, was injured, to-day in a collision between his bicycle and a motor lorry at Petersham. Lamberton sustained a 'broken nose, an injured eye. and prbbsibly a fracture of the skull. NOTED ENGINEER’S DEATH. (Received this day at 2.22 p.m.) LONDON,' December 14. The death .is announced of Mr W. C. Ullmann, railway engineer, of South Australia. He w?, s chief engineer of the Sulphide Corporation in New South Wales, a-nd subsequently designed the Eflfltbum tramway. th° first municipal electric .service in London.