GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 73, 26 March 1923, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Summer Time in France Opposed. Summer time in France is endangered owing to the determination of its opponents to block the passage of the necessary bill before the Easter recess, after which it will be useless this year (A. and N.Z. Cable.) Rebel Plots in Hungary. It is reported from Budapest that the leaders of the Opposition informed the Prime Minister (Count Bethlen) that students were preparing a rebellion. Count Bethlen threatens to proclaim martial law.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) Expensive Wife Divorced. Captain Nash, who recently defended Wccessfully a claim for £057 for cresses Supplied to his wife, was granted divorce. |A. and S.Z. Cable.) Xirfcwood-Hagen Golf Tour. Hagen won the Hiltmorc Forest golf championship at Asheville, North Carolina, with a score of 284 for 72 holes. Hutchison and Kirkwood tied for second place with scores of 290. Kirkwood "itercd, despite a sprained shoulder. He did the first round in 75, the second in '", and the last two in 74 each. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.) Mr. Samuel Gomperi' Health. Mr. Samuel Gompers (president of the American Federation of Labour) has •eeovered from his illness, and has left kospital.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)