GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 191, 8 May 1924, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

(BY telegraph.—Press Copy.ught.

Sir James Craig, in the Ulster Parliament, stated that it was impossible to accede to the request of the Bntish Government t-o appoint a Boundary Commissioner. —Reuter.

Celia-Cooney, the girl bandit, and her husband, who were captured at Jacksonville, Florida, have been sentenced to ton years’ and twenty years imprisonment respectively. Thirty-eight Chinese concerned in the recent piracy in Hong-Kong waters on board the steam launch Kwangtak were shot by the Chinese authorities of the Heungshan district, in the presence of representatives of the Hong-Kong police force. —Reuter.

George Mendies, the fly-weight boxer, who was knocked out in the fifteenth round of a match with Hariy Gordon at Sydney, on Saturday, and was sent to hospital suffering from a broken nose and concussion, has succumbed to his injuries.

The “Daily Express’s” Berlin correspondent states that Schweitz, the executioner, successor to Spaethe, who committed suicide four months ago, committed suicide similarly .at Breslau, after trying to relieve his poverty by exhibiting the axe on which were engraved the names of 123 victims.

Work at the docks at Rangoon is practically at a standstill owing to a strike of stevedores’ coolies, who are demanding increased pay, a Reuter message from Delhi states. Th<» stevedores agreed to an increase, but owing to their existing contracts asked for a postponement . for two months, wliich the coolies rejected.

A Cape Town message states that finds of outstanding scientific value have been located. Fossilised skeletons of a gigantic pre-historic amphibian rentile called dicynodont have been found in the Graaff R-einet district bv a well-known German palaeontologist named Baron Friedrich von Hueiie. • The find, Im said, ranked higher in importance than any palaeontological discoveries in Africa for many years.