GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 December 1929, Page 8

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

SUDDEN DEATH

(By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.) RUGBY, November 28. Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur SlogC ett who was Director-General oi Medical Services in the British Armies in the field during the greater part of the war, dropped dead yesterday while walking with, his son near Regent Park, London. He was 72 years of age and had been suffering from heart trouble. ACQUITTED. SUVA, December 2. ‘ George Lund, petty officer aboard H M.S. Laburnum, was acquitted on a charge of an unnatural offence, at the Supreme Court. CONVICT’S SUICIDE. BERLIN, December 2, A convict undergoing fifteen years’ servitude in the Sonnenburg Prison, and who was employed in a workshop, put his head under a paper-cutting guillotine, and switched on the current. He was decapitated. NEW WHITEHALL.

RUGBY, November 30. Plans to erect new Government buildings in Whitehall are under contemplation. It is intended that the building will be on lines designed to add to the dignity of the famous street of Government offices, and although the cost will be great, it is contended that there will in the end be a saving, because staffs will be housed toegther which are et present distributed over London. The buildings will be on’ the river side of Whitehall, and will extend from the Cenotaph to a point opposite the Horse Guards’ Parade. The scheme will involve the demolition of Montagu House, the famous old home of the Dukes of Buccleugh, which is to be the new Ministry of Labour. EX-ENEMIES FRATERNISE LONDON, December 2. Ten Generals, eight Admirals, a thousand officers and men, and forty nurses are attending to-night a dinner of the East African Association at which Von Lettow Verbeck will be the principal guest sitting between General Smuts who fought him, and Admiral King Hall who bottled up the Germans. CHEESE MARKET LONDON, December 2. Australian cheese to Britain jumped five thousand to seventy-four thousand hundredweight in the last few yqears, according to the Em«ire Marketing Board’s surey. e w Zealand supplies fifty percent. of the imports. The demand for coloured Cheddar is confined to the dock areas and the region inhabited by the North County rail workers. The demand for well ripened cheese is reviving.

BEEF PLEBISCITE

LONDON, December 2.

A secret beef ballot at Australia House resulted: Australian beef 264, Scottish 354, Argentine chilled 348. Guests had a slice each, not knowing which they were partaking, and voted by points. The Australian beef was two-year-old Hereford. NEW ZEALANDERS IN LONDON. LONDON, December 2. New Zealanders in the Air Force, numbering ninety, dined together in London. The guests included Major T. Wilkes and Captain L. Findlay. The Air Force Rugger team includes three New Zealanders. Twenty Wellington College Old Boys attended a reunion dinner, Mr M. C. Barwell presiding. It was decided to form a branch of the College Old Boys’ Association in London.