GENERAL CABLES

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10476, 5 January 1928, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

SWEETS AND TOBACCO SALE

HOURS

(Received Jan. 4, 8.50 p.m.. LONDON, Jan. 3. Shopkeepers criticise the D.O.TLA. Committee’s recommendations on the ground that it is unfair to permit sales of tobacco and sweets in theatres and elsewhere after the shops have closed. They argue there is no reason why chocolates and cigarettes should not. be purchased before eight o’clock like any other commodity.

PLATINUM FOUND IN SIERRA LEONE (Received Jan. 4, 9.5 p.m.) The Conolial ffice reports the disO LONDON. Jan. 1. The Colonial Office reports the discovery of a platinum hearing area, in Sierra Leone. An investigation shows an area of about forty square miles and the deposits are likely to he of considerable importance. An Imperial Institute analysis is- favorable. The prospectors must satisfy the Sierra Leone Government of their bona tides. Platinum is the most valuable of aIL metals. Its price as present is about £l4 per cur.ee.— A. and X.Z.C.A.

LONDON CLEARING iiOl SG RECORD YEAH. "LONDON. Jan. 3. London bankers’ grand total ot hills and cheques paid at the clearing house* in 192/ established a new record. having amounted ta £41,550,000.000. The previous year's highest was for 1925. when the total was £40,437,000,000.—British < Hliciat Wireless.

ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN' ' SIERRA LEONE. LONDON, Jan. 3. The laws abolishing slavery in Sierra Leone Pro test-ora to become effective to-day, when 215.000 slaves are due to he set free.—British Official Wireless.

BRITISH ENGINE IN RECORD FLIGHT PLANE. LONDON, Jan. 3. Commander Donati. the Italian airman who Hew, in an officially observed world record Might on December 24. used in his Italian aerophuw a British engine, a Bristol Jupiter. This is ail air-cooled lugh-coiupression engine of 450 horse power, and is mueli used in the Royal Air Force and other air services, and on British and foreign air lines.—British Official V\ ireless.

DARWIN'S HOME AS NATIONAL M KMO RIAL. LONDON, Jan. 3. , Negotiations are complete for the taking over by the British Association, in trust, as a national memorial, of the old homo in Kent of the great scientist, Charles Darwin, which has been bought and endowed for £15.000 hv the London surgeon. Dr. Buekston Browne. The, house is to he pv2s-»--ed, not a,s a slow place, hiit.la serve some useful pi : pose not yet dcci l'd upon. —British Official Wireless.

HUMILIATED EX-COMMU NIST LEADERS

MOSCOW. Jan. 3. As a new year’s sequel to their oxnulsilto from the Communist Party, M.Mi. l’Kitsky, Zinovieff, Kameneff, RakovsJiy, and their comrades are m humiliation, all having been deprived of their official posts; ikewise the Commissioner of Posts and lelegraphs, M. Smirnoff, .who is operating a factory lathe, and M. Beloborodoff. who signed .the order for the Tsar’s execution. —A. and K.Z. C.A. NEW FOR BRITISH PLANES.. LONDON, Jan. 3. Hinkler has patented a new typo of landing carriage which the Daily Telegraph’s aviation correspondent is of opinion is likely to be a boon to private owners of light aeroplanes.— A. and N.Z.C.A.