GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 December 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

MINE DfSASTER. (Australian Press Asbp-—United Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn. —uopyright.) LIMA (Peru), December 7. Deaths estimated from 27 to 64, are believed to have resulted from the inundation of a gallery in the Campano mine, near Andean, a mining city of Morococha, when the bottom dropped out of a pond at the mine, letting water into the shaft. B.C. BY-ELECTION. VANCOUVER, December 7. A message from Victoria says that with a majority of only eighty-five out of 11,195 votes, -Mr D. B. Plunket (Conservative) defeated Mr Mac Lean in the by-election, which aroused more interest than the general election. Premier Tolmie, who gave up the, seat to enter provincial politics, had a majority of 2751, thus a huge majority in what had been a Tory stronghold since 1875, has been cut down. It is regarded as a victory for the Australian Treaty, which was the only outside issue dealt ■with. No fewer than five Cabinet Ministers took part in the campaign.

HOBBS’ “LIBEL” CLAIM. LONDON. December 7. Hobbs, (after the libel action) appeared in the Appeal Court and sought leave to appeal against Lord Hewart’s refusal to grant an adjournment. He said that he made the application formally, with the idea of adjourning till he ho could submit the whole matter. Justice Scrutton granted an adjournment. to December 17, when Hobbs can renew the application. PANKHURSTSTATUE LONDON, Dec. 7. The erection of a. statue to Mrs. Pankhurst, either near the House of Commons, or the end of Downing St., the scene of many militant suffrage battles, is the purpose of a fund of £2OOO which her admirers hope to obtain by subscription throughout the world. Mr. A. G. Walker, sculptor of the Florence Nightingale statue, Waterloo Place, has completed a plaster sketch representing Mrs. Pankhurst hatless and attired in her favourite evening coat, in which she appeared on many platforms.