GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 67, 13 December 1926, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES

,’ The Privy Council reserved judgment in the appeal case, New Zealand Crown Milling Company v. the King.

The Commonwealth Shipping Board has sold the ex-enemy steamer Boorara to Greek buyers. The price is in the vicinity of £40,000.

The United States House of Representatives rejected Mr. Gallivan’s motion to eliminate from the Budget the item of 12,000,000 dollars for Prohibition enforcement.

In connection with the Hatton Garden mail van diamond robbery in September last George Spiers was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on a conviction for receiving stolen goods.

Mr. William Harrison, who was the purchaser of the “Sketch,” “Tatler,” “London News,” and other weeklies, has bought the “Morning Post” building to house his newspaper interests.

Estimates for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1927, tabled in the Canadian House of Commons on Friday, totalled 191,000,000 dollars. Exactly the same appeared in the Estimates submitted to last Parliament and not passed.

Evan Clarke who was granted a pardon for his evidence in connection with the Kalgoorlie police murders, has lodged a petition claiming the £lOOO reward offered by the Government for evidence leading to the conviction of the murderers.

With the object of proving that actresses are superfluous, the managers of a. prominent German theatre circuit have decided to bann them. They state that at the beginning of the new year the women’s places will be taken by a male company.

Marang Van Ysselveere, a Dutch business man, arrested in January in connection with the Portuguese bank notes forgery in December, .1925, was' sentenced to eleven months' imprisonment and released as he had served the period under remand, reports a Hague message.

/I crowd assembled in Piccadilly Circus, London, in expectation of witnessing a hair-raising thrill promised by Murray, the Australian escapologist, who undertook to release himself from a straitjacket suspended upsidedown 200 ft. in the air by a crane. The police intervened and forbade, the proceeding.

Much surprise has been caused in South Africa by the wholesale deportation of offenders against the liquor law. On Friday sixteen men and one woman, all Britishers, from Johannesburg and Pretoria, were deported on the steamer Grantully Castle. The men, practically all ex-soldiers, complain bitterly of their treatment. Several having only one conviction recorded against them, were given no facilities to communicate with friends. They protested against being sent back in the middle of the English winter without money, friends, or. prospects. Most of them were convicted of selling liquor to natives.