GENERAL CABLES

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 November 1927, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES

PACIFIC HAPPY ISLES

(Australian and N.Z. Cable -ABBOciation.)

LONDON, Nov. 25.

Lord and Lady Hastings, whose hurried marriage in 1925, on the day prior to Lord Hastings’ departure for Australia to manage a sheep farm, caused his father to announce that he did not consent, has returned from the South Sea island of Moorea (20 miles from Tahiti), where Lord Hastings was engaged in copra and vanilla plantations.

They declare that the Pacific Islands are unpeopled and unexplored, and the only place to live in perfect happiness. They are returning there after the holidays. Lord Hastings added: “I am afraid the announcement of my marriage was rather a shock to my relatives. Happily my family has now quite recovered.”

AUSTRALIAN MIGRANTS

LONDON, November 25.

“Australia, in making an effort to encourage British migrants, realises that the “white policy” is essential and vital, and will not give other countries cause for arguing that Australians are not populating the continent,” said General Ryrje, High Commissioner for Australia, at the Overseas League lunch. “A million migrants have come from Britain since the migration policy started, costing Australia £20,000,000. The present stream of 30,000 annually is insufficient. It should be a hundred thousand.”

MURDERED POLICEMAN.

LONDON, November 26.

At the inquest on the policeman, Gutteridge (who was shot by motorists), a verdict was returned of murder against a person unknown. The police are of the opinion that he was about to take particulars when shot.

BRITAIN AND RUSSIA.

MOSCOW, November 25.

Rykov, in a speech, said the Soviet naturally did not decline negotiations for the resumption of relations with Britain, but Britain took the initiative in the rupture, and therefore must take thU initiative for the resumption.

FLOODS IN ALGERIA.

> PARIS, Novembei- 26.

Heavy floods are reported in Algeria, particularly in the Department of Oran. The town of Nostagrem is inundated. Forty were drowped.

DAMAGED BUTTER.

LONDON, November 27.

Fifteen thousand dry boxes of the Port Caroline’s damaged butter were sold to blenders, s The underwriters ruled out an offer of bulk purchase for the remaining wet portion, with the undertaking that it would be used up in blending so that the New Zealand origin would not be revealed. RIOTS IN JAPAN. TOKIO, November" 27. An official telegram reports serious agrarian riots in the Gifu prefecture, owing to the tenants’ discontent over rentals. The police are active but it is believed that the trouble will not spread. It is reported that Saito is retiring from the generalship in Korea on the ground of ill health. He will be succeeded by General Yamanashi. FORD CARS. NEW YORK, November 26. A high official of the Ford company, Detroit, states that the Fordson and Highland Park plants will employ 140,000 men by Christmas, producing two thousand new cars daily. Mr Ford announces that his company recently purchased five million acres fro nr the Brazilian Government, situated on the Piquabuba plateau in the State of Para, in a rich volcanic soil. He says that if the entire tract can be placed under production, it will not only change the whole situation of the rubber industry in the world, but will give Northern Brazil a tremendous agricultural and industrial in> petus. Planting begins immediately, and he expects that in seven years, there will be an immense annual production.

PRISON FIGHT VICTIMS NEW YORK, Nov. 25. The Folsome prison death list is now eleven, and the injured twentyone. ITALY AND HUNGARY ROME, Nov. 25. Negotiations are in progress at Chigi Palace, for a treaty of commerce between Italy and Hungary. , MANCHURIAN LOAN WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. Regarding the proposed Manchurian loan Mr. Kellogg is convinced that it is a private matter in which the American Government has no particular interest and therefore, he does not disapprove of the project. The State Department published a cablegram of received from Chinese financiers and business men, stating that the Chinese people are alarmed at the news that the loan is for a railway which is an alien system on Chinese soil, for the purpose of political exploitation of Manchuria. We are strongly opposed to supplying financial help to Japan in order to carry out her desire upon our sovereignty there. We hope the United States Government and people will preserve the friendly relations between our countries by refusing to participate in the proposed loan.”