CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 September 1934, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

COMMUNISTS FOR RUSSIA. [BY CABLE —PBEBS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.J I LONDON, September 6. Mr A. Denville, Conservative M.P. for Central Newcastle, in a speech at Newcastle, offered to send three Communists to Russia. Fifty Communists volunteered to go, and they are interviewing him to-morrow. He stipulates that the three to go must be single men, who are not to return. Mr Denville said that he was trying to export all of the Communists to Russia, until England was left to the English. HAWAII VOLCANO. HONOLULU, September 6. The Kilauea volcano, on Hawaii island, began erupting within its crater early to-day. Lava is flowing from a cascade 500 feet wide, from a height of 60 feet above the crater floor, but had not erupted outside the rim. “DEAD” MAN’S RETURN. , VICTORIA (8.C.), Sept. 6. Thomas Dresser, an old man presented a pass book at the bank today to find that he had been legally declared dead last December. The estate valued at 2200 dollars had been ordered to be divided between a sister in the United States, and the children of a deceased sister, residing in New Zealand, but it had not yet been paid. TITHES DISPUTES. DUBLIN, September 6. After a truce due to a local cricket match, the tithe dispute at Ashford in an extraordinary way renewed itself. Farmers and their wives and daughters prostrated themselves before lorries conveying oats seized for tithes. Their appeals and screams, and shouts of civilians and police increased the turmoil. Lorry drivers entered a potato field in order to avoid the prostrate farm folk who then wildly pursued the lorries, which were forced to stop until the police removed a heavy waggon impeding their exit from the field, allowing the lorries to depart. PICTURES FOR N.Z. LONDON, September 6. Watt’s paitning, “Eve of Peace,” and Burne Jones’ “Spes,” formerly the property of Lord Faringdon, have been presented to the Dunedin Art Gallery, by the National Art Collection Fund.