GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1922, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

COLLECTION OF N.Z. STAMPS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. • Received Dec. 23, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 22. A dealer purchased, for £23,000, Mann’s collection of New Zealand stamps, said to be the most complete in the world. It was begun forty years ago, and includes the pick of every great collection. The purchaser offers to sell it to the Museum as a whole, otherwise it will ibe broken up.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. London, Dec. 23. An auxiliary postman accidentally kicked aside a heap of dead leaves in Regent’s Park, and found a pearl necklace worth three thousand pounds, which Lady Gore lost. She has given £3OO as a reward to the finder. 'Received Dec. 24, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Dec. 23. The Grand Duchess of Luxembourg has given birth to a daughter. The last four German soldiers imprisoned in France for criminal convictions have been released and taken to the frontier. The Hague, Dec. 23. At Doorn the ex-Kaiser sold the world’s rights of the official photograph of the recent wedding to the Keystone Company for ten thousand dollars. Lausanne, Dec, 23. Vorowsky head, of the Russian Commercial Delegation, has gone to Rome to discuss the resumption of normal commercial relations. This is due to the conciliatory attitude of Mussolini, who favors de jure recognition of the Soviet. Received Dec. 23, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 23. Sir W. Joynson-Hicks, interviewed, said he had sat for five days on the British Empire Exhibition enquiry. The only way to find the real truth was to hear both sides at the same meeting, and allow them to thresh out the matter in his presence. This was being arranged. His object was not to whitewash anyone, or decide that incorrect charges had been made, but to find the truth and make recommendations in orded to inspire the fullest confidence in the (Ex-hibition.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Received Dec. 23, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 23. The Air Ministry announces that the present strength of fighting bombing machines in Britain is thirty-two squadrons, and France 1 28, Britain having 384 aeroplanes and France 1152. Received Dec. 23, 5.5 p.m. London, Dec. 23. Sir Prince Smith left £1,135,195 sterling net personally. The death duties amount to £363,000. Madrid, Dec. 23. A train, crowded with soldiers returning from manoeuvres, collided with a goods train at Onteniente. Fifteen were killed and a hundred injured, twenty seriously. The port of London Authority from January 1 will reduce the percentage I addition on dock charges by ten points. | The Mayors of several large American cities, including Detroit, Boston, I New York, and Chicago, have protested against the proposed reinstatement of Fatty Arbuckle, and declared that they would prevent the showing of pictures in which he acted. Women’s organisations and religious bodies all over the United States have issued a protest against his reinstatement.

A case in the Probate Court concerning the Northcliffe estate has opened. After evidence had been taken regarding the signature of the will and certain codicils the proceedings were adjourned. During the hearing surprise was created by a woman, whose name was not revealed, who appeared in Court. After hearing a claim she made for money, the judge told her she must not interfere in the present proceedings. She would have an opportunity of being heard at a later stage. It is announced in a Washington telegram that M. Clemenceau contributed 20,000 dollars, the proceeds of his American tour and articles written for American newspapers to the American Field Service Organisation, which sent ambulance workers to France before the United States entered the war.

Hordern’s hydroplane, which had just returned from Hurley’s expedition to Papua, dipped from a height of ten feet into Sydney harbor and sank. The plane tipped for a moment enabling the pilot to release his seat belt and escape.

The State Premier has published a statement showing the proposed salary reductions of New Zealand public servants, and contrasting them with lighter reductions effected in New South Wales. The Nigara’s crew have been paid off at Sydney. Trouble is expected when the company are signing on a new crew on Wednesday. Some men are saying that they will refuse to sign on until the dispute in New Zealand is settled.