GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1928, Page 11

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

PRINCESS ELIZABETH’S HOSTEL. (Australian Press Ason.—United Service.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, December 7. Lord Dawson arrived from the Palace for a dinner at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, in aid of Princess Elizabeth’s Hostel for Children, while Lady Dawson was presiding. Lord Dawson, in a bright and witty •speech, announced at the close of the dinner that £15,000 had been collected. which, together with other subscriptions, amounted to the £25,000 for which they were appealing.

“DICKENS” COINCIDENCE. LONDON, December 6. Samuel Weller was the name of- a witness called for the defendant in a case at the Reading County Court to’day, by H. C. Dickens, a grandson of the novelist, counsel for the defence. EX-M.P.’s WILL. LONDON, December 8. The late Sir Granville Greenwood, an ex-member of the House of Commons, left instructions in his will that his body should be cremated. He solemnly charged his executors that before the body was placed in a coffin, a doctor should drive a stiletto through the heart. MELBA’S PROGRAMME. LONDON, December 9. Melba alighted from the boat train at Victoria on a frosty dull afternoon. In an interview at Melba’s. Cadogan Square mansion, she said “For the first time in my life, I have no plans and no contracts. I feel like a schoolgirl from school. I am delighted to be in London, and intend remaining for two years touring France and Italy. I am absolutely pleasure-bent. The grand opera season was a credit to Australia. It was successful and magnificently produced.” Melba plans founding a Parisian conservatorium similar to the Melbourne, facilitating Continental local studies. She finally said laughingly: “Although I have no contracts, yet 1 can always manufacture work.” EGYPTIAN COMMUNISTS. CAIRO, December 9. The police yesterday quietly rounded up a bunch of the Communist agitators headed by the Soviet envoy Eliahu, who was specially entrusted with the task of restoring the campaign which was nipped in the bud by similar arrests in June.

“LISTENING-IN.” LONDON, December 8. “The Times’s” correspondent at Berlin states that the German Post Office is experimenting with apparatus designed to permit general conversation with different subscribers, for example, banks, big business, and police. Microphones and loud speakears replace mouth and earpieces. All participants in the discussion, are connected through the Exchange, and enabled to hear everything. EMPIRE TRANSPORT. LONDON, December 9. Mr Amery has appointed a committee responsible to Hon. Ormsby Gore, consisting of Sirs James McCurrie, Henry Fowler, General F. D. Hammond, and Herbert Diblett, to study all aspects of transport, benefiting the overseas Empire. The Committee hopes to evolve a large mechanical transport unit, not confined solely, to good roads, but capable of increasing the customary load and reducing the ton per mile-transport costs. The Marketing Board and participating Governments will share the expenses. The Board is advancing the entirt amount required for fhe first year. It is proposed ultimately to create an oversea mechanical transport committee, representing Imperial, Dominion, Colonial, Indian and Sudanese Governments-

MOTORISTS BURNT TO DEATH

PARIS, December 8.

There was an amazing scene of horror in Quai D’Austerlitz at night when a merchant, Albert Clements, in a motor car, collided with a lorry. , The car burst into flames. Clement was pinned down but had‘the presence of mind to fling from the window a wallet containing a large sum of money. He was then burnt to death, before the gaze of helpless hundreds.

SCHNEIDER CUP

LONDON, Dec. 9.

After inspection of several alternative venues, the Aero Club has decided to hold the 1929 Schneider Cup race at the Solent. The opinion is that it alone combines a stretch of smooth water, suitable for the three hundred miles an hour machines to alight upon, with the necessary shed and slipway accommodation. It is expected that Britain, France, Italy, America and Germany will compete. Special racing seaplanes, estimated to attain three hundred miles an hour, are being constructed in Britain in order to defend the trophy.