GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1933, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

PRICE OF GOLD

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(Received Jan. 27th. at 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 26. The price of gold is £6 Is 4L

SMUGGLING

ARRESTS MADE

(Received Jan. 27th. at 10.30. a.m.) SYDNEY, January 27.

After a long i.'.ivestigr.tion defectives arrested .two men at Balmain waterfront, believed to be conencted with extensive tobacco smuggling;, .the?,.'enterprise working from .Holland and Germanv.

SOCCER; REPLAYS, < (Received Jan. 27th. at 10.36 a.m.) LONDON, January 26. (Received. Jan. 27th. at 10.36 a.m.) In the Scottish soccer cup replay Hibernians defeated Forfar by 7 to 2.

A BOMB. AT BRITISH QUARTERS. (Received Jan. 27th. at 10.36 a.m.) CAIRO; January 26. Recalling l-gt year’s., succession of bomb outrages, ii’.cludiug.the explosion i,n the grounds of the British ResiO * deucy, an utiexj'lodi d bomb was found to-day at the British military headquarters at Cairo.

BOURSE STRIKE. PARIS, January 25. The Bourse strike was carried out with tlie utmost good humour. When a couple of portly stockbrokers tried to initiate a market, their orders were net registered «n the indicator, as the strikers, had cut the electric wires. Thenceforward, the 'hall was a babble of chatter'and laughter, a few stinkbombs adding to the confusion. The Govern;ment threatens ,to cute, on the ground'that any demonstration against the freedom of Parliamentary discussion cannot be allowed.

BOURSE STRIKE ENDS. (Received. Jan. 27th. at 10.36 a.m.) PARTS, January 26. Satisfied with having brought their grievances to public notice, the Bourse strikers resumed at noon. £2300 FOR STRADIVARIUS. ■LONDON, January 26. A Stradivnrius violin, made in 1725, was auctioned at Puttecks in Leicester Square for £2300. .. GERMAN SHIPPING PRESIDENT. BERLIN, January 26. Marius Boeger, formerly director of German-Australian lines, has been appointed president of the Hamburg■Amerika line in ■succession to Cuno. PAWNED COATS RESTORED. VIENNA, January 26. Owing to extrenie cold, the state pawnshop has restored three thousand overcoats to unemployed owners, but each is specially marked so that it cannot be repawned until the spring.