GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 10490, 15 October 1926, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

PACIFIC FLIGHT. SYD-VEY, Oct. 14. Wireless messages report the arrival of Captain Williams at Samarai, —U.P.A. VICTORIAN TAXATION PRO- • POSALS. MELBUURNE, Oct. 14. In the Assembly, delivering his Ba.-Q.et speech, the Treasurer,- Mr - Peacock*, said there would he no alteration in the rates of income tax. New taxation cn betting, which is estimated to increase the revenue by £417.000, is to take the form of a tax of one and aJialf percent, on the turnover of each bookmaker. The present stamp duties on betting tickets and licenses or permits will be abolished, but a license fee of £1 will be charged on each bookmaker’s certificate. The restoration of stamp duties on bills of exchange and promissory notes to the rates ruling before the war was another feature of the speech-

NEW LINERS FOR LONDONRIVER ELATE TRADE.

(Received October 14, 7.50 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 14.

The Royal Mail and Nelson Steamship .lines are negotiating for Eve fast 15,000-ton insulated passenger ships for the 'London-River Plate •trade. The first one will be laid down when the coal strike is settled. AUSTRALIAN EGGS 1 ORGERMANY. Received October 14, 9.5-3 p m.) LONDON, Qctooer 1-. An importer of Australnn eggs ox Mooltan is so impressed by tlie. excellent quality that he is sending a trial lot to (Germany whj.-o he is hopeful of opening up a ne-v raaikct. —A and N.Z.C.A. ROUMANIAN QUEEN’S VISIT TO AMERICA. (Received October 15, 1.40 a.m ) LONDON.. October 14. The “Gazette’s” Vienna correspondent asserts that the real. reason of the Roumanian Queen’s visit to America is because the King is seriously ill, supposedly with cancer. Physicians only give him another two years to live. They told the Queen that if she did not go to America now she would not he able to go at all as a Queen. The . Government strongly opposed the visit oil the ground of the Roumanian people s povc-rtv. but the Queen insisted, declaring that the trip would more than pay for itself, owing to the loans she hoped to secure from American bankers,- -

WORM TURNED

CALLED WIFE “MUSSOLINI.”

, LONDON, Sept. 28- . ’ ,\ woman, applying for a summons at* Enfield (Middlesex), complained that her husband called her “Mussolini.” “Why?” asked the Magistrate. “Because,” said the woman, I he says I am tlie dictator of the household.”

“TOM THUMB.”

DEAD AT 84

LOS ANGELES, Sept 28. Darius Abner Alder, the famous midget. “General Tom Thumb” lias died at the age-of 84. FATAL LAUGHTER, KILLED BY~A T “COMIC.” LONDON, Sept. St). Excessive laughter at a comic picture at a Bath cinema claused the death of John Bennett, aged 15, says the “Evening News.” A doctor points out that laughter is generally uii medic ino for juveniles, promoting circulation of the blood and aiding digestion, hut it can he dangerous even to the young. He recalls that a girl died in a train at Nottingham through laughing too' much. The pcst-mortem examination showed that an enlarged thyroid gland had pressed against , the windpipe., suffocating the girl. When the heart is weak," he adds, uncontrolled laughter may cause its failure 7. ' Y-f).