GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 7 June 1934, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

(Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) CAPETOWN, June 5. .Parliament has been prorogued, alter a strenuous four months. Seventy Bills were passed dealing with economic. social an.| industrial lift*, notablv six million pounds irrigation schem l , an slums clearance bill. Terms of fusion between the Nationalist ami .South African parties are published. Boih parlies desire th* development of tin* people along Chi’istian national lines and th*e deveh p meat in a pin-dominant sense of national unity, based on equality of both sections of the community. I.ON I >ON. June 5. Without rain for three weeks, the London water supply position is grave. The flow of the Thames daily above Teddington Weir is 519 million gallons below the normal June average. which is 819 million gallons. The quantity available from the Thames is 55 millions daily below requirements, so 'the Water Board is drawing on storages which lota] seventy days’ supply. The Chairman says the drought is the most serious since a record was kept, for fen years. LONDON, June 5. Sopwith’s “ Endeavour ’ ’ won the first race in a hard northerly wind over fh<* full 37-milc course at Harwick regatta, defeating the Britannia by two .and a-half minutes LOS ANGELES, June 5. As the police to-day further questioned Louis Rude Payne, 21. son of a wealthy business man. and the selfconfessed slaver of his mother and -a younger brother with an axe. the case seems likely to prove the most shocking crime committed On the Pacific Const in this generation. 'The youth is apparently n* f suffering from mental derangement. He attacked his Mrs Carry Payne, 45, and his brother, Robert. 14. at their home and beat them to death with an axe and carefully strapped their nude mangled bodies to their beds. The tragedy was revealed when the neighbours noted that the electric lights were burning night and day for several days. The police are using every effort to find some positive motive for the ghastly acts, but Payne while freely admUtJug lhe murders, answers other questions in a vague way such as “1 jusf, had the impluse” t’.ml “1 did it. because of a series of little things. “