CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1932, Page 9

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

LANCASHIRE MILLS. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] -LONDON, September 17. At the conference of the employers and operatives in the Lancashire Cotton industry, the basis of a three? years peace between the employers and operatives was laid, when the questions relating to the re-establish-ment of collective bargaining, including the provision of machinery to ensure the honouring of agreements, were disposed of. The two most difficult questions, namely, the new rates of wages and the reinstatements of operatives, remain to’be considered next week. BRITAIN'S ELECTRICITY. RUGBY, September 17. Six high-pressure transmission wires which together with an earthed conductor for the protection of others against lightning, will now be ..put in position across the Thames Estuary; This marks an important stage in the development of the national electricity scheme. It will connect the main lines in the east with those south of the Thames in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey. The primary function of the six conductors will be to convey current from a huge -power station at •Barking, on the north of the Thames, to switching station, when it will be fed to south-eastern counties. The steel towers, between which 1000 yards long conductors will stretch across the river from Dagenham in Sussex to Crossness in Kent, are 457 feet high, but in - the centre -of the span, conductors -each weighing 20 tons, will dip to a height of about 250 feet above high-Water mark, high above the masts-of the tallest ship.

MEDITERRANEAN FLEET.

RUGBY, September 17

The third cruiser squadron from the British Mediterranean Fleet, composed of the cruisers Callrope, Calypso, Ceres, and’ Curlew, -with the submarine Rover, under the -command of Rear-Admiral F. L. Tottenham, will pay a visit from September 17 to 23 to the Bulgarian naval “base of Varna, where 'King- Boris and -Queen Joanna are now in residence. A’party of of-ficers-and members Of the'crew, including Admiral Tottenham, is expected to visit-Sofia- for three day s.

ALBANIAN CONSPIRATORS.

LONDON, September 17

A message from Tirana (Albania) states that a mass trial of terrorists, aiming at the overthrow of the Albanian regime -arid the assassination of -King ■Zog 1 s ■ entourage, ended in seven being sentenced to death; ten to imprisonment totalling 101 years; seventeen to 15 years; and two to three years, while''fourteen were acquitted. The Judge recommended the condemned terrorists to 'King Zog’s clemency. LOST SCIENTIST ST. JOHNS, September 16. The steamer Ungava, which returned from the Arctic bn Friday, reported that a Canadian police patrol at Bache Peninsula, which ■ conducted a search last .winter for Doctor Kreuger, had found no trace of the German scientist. SIR RONALD ROSS LONDON, September 16. Newspapers pay a tribute to Sir Ronald Ross, the conqueror of malaria, as a man who made one-third of the world inhabitable, and they express satisfaction that his declining years were made happier by a fund totalling £5,513. CANADIAN LABOUR VANCOUVER, September 16. A Hamilton message states that the Tracies and Labour Congress convention adopted a resolution opposing the dole, but offered to contribute to a Dominions’ unemployment insurance scheme. HOMELAND FARMERS RUGBY, September 16.

The Ministry of Agriculture reports that generally, the small holders have so far weathered the agricultural depression in. a remarkable way and in 1931 they were doing better than were the large farmers. The area of new land acquired during 1931 by County Councils for small holdings was 7827 acres. The total area of land held by County Councils in England and Wales for the purpose of small holdings on December 31, was 450,871 acres, and the number of small holding was 7827 ■acres. The total area of land hold by County Councils in'England and Wales for the purpose of small holdings on December 31/was 450,871 acres, and the number of small holding tenants was 217,274.