GENERAL CABLES.

Grey River Argus, 2 May 1931, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

• — (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) BERLIN, April 30. | The Nazi leader, Dr Joseph Goebels, failed to appear for trial on seven ■ charges af slandering the police, and I was sentenced to a month’s imprison- : ment and fined £B, with a further fine I of £5O for libelling the German administration. OTTAWA, April 30. Premier Bennett announced that the ' Government is preparing plans for a I new’ long term conversion issue, for conversion of part of all the issues matur- [ ing between now and 1934. It is understood that the loan will be approximately 250.000,000 dollars, a t 41 per cent? Bonds coming due in the next four 1 years total more than one thousand million dollars. RUGBY', April 30. The mission dispatched by the Federation of British Industries to Canada, to study conditions with a view to stimulating trade-relations, has bee n busily engaged in conference in Montreal, where great interest and sympathy was displayed. The mission which is headed by Sir James Lith-1 gow, left to-day for Toronto. After l inspecting industrial plants in Hamilton and Niagara, it will visit Ottawa,' where an interview with the Prime Minister (Mr Bennett) will take place next Thursday. RUGBY', April 30. ■ Sir Malcolm Campbell and Lord Wakefield were present at a luncheon in London, in honour Kaye Don, who recently created a new world speed record with. the motor boat Miss Englandll. at Buenos Aires. A SORDID TRAGEDY. CHICAGO, April 30. Death terminated an illicit romance, when the woman was tricked into drinking a fatal draught. After ten days’ separation, Katherine Garison. < wife of a wealthy newspaper manager, decided to return home and make a new' start The woman’s husband called to take her home from the hotel and there he encountered her paramour, Leo Hartung, who exchanged greetings with the husband, and proposed that he and the woman should : have a last drink on it. He poured from his own flask, which was evidently poisoned. Clinking glasses with the woman, who drank unsuspectingly, she and Hartung died within a minUte * '