GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 16 May 1933, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, Al ay 12. Judge Beazley, in the County Court at Hull, gave judgment in favour of White and Sons on a claim in respect to damag(*d apples carried aboard the Hobson Bay in .1931. This is a test case, and is likely to go to the Appeal Court Defendants pleaded “inherent vice” in the apples. The judge found that the fruit was sound when shipped, but was carried in an uneven, temperature. constituting “failure to exercise due care in custody.’’ LONDON, Alay 14The report that American accents will be “grafted” on British actors and actresses’ voices in the talkies to make them .acceptable to America’s Aliddle West, aroused the opposition of the British producers. The first picture. scheduled for this treatment is “Faithful Heart,” made in London, starring Herbert Alarshall and Edna Best, the producers of which are endeavouring to prevent mutilation. It is pointed out that British audiences for five years endured the harsh American voices, but the American accent in a British setting would be comical. MOSCOW, May 14. Newspapers are angry that Canada and Australia are participating in the Wheat Conference at Geneva, which they connect with Britain’s embargo on Russian imports, as an organised campaign to limit Soviet trade'. “Isvestia” says that Canada, America, Australia and Argentina arc acting at Genova as though they wore the only important exporters. LONDON, Alay 13. Mr Lancaster has enlisted the help of the Nigerian ruler, the Emir of Katsina, in a renewed effort to solve the fate of Captain Lancaster, who is believed to have been forced down in the jungles of Northern Nigeria. The “Daily Mail” says the Emir, who is at present visiting London, has promised t 0 send thousands of his people to participate, in a search. MT. EVEREST CLIMBERS. LONDON, May 14. Copyright: Air Ruttledge wirelesses “Greene, Brocklebank, Wood. Johnson and myself, on May 5, joined the advance party already established at camp there, at twenty-one thousand feet. There is much snow on the glacier trough and violent wind on the glacier itself.”