GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 August 1924, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

QUEST FOR WEALTHY LABOURITE BY CABLE—PBESB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Aug. 13. The Daily Herald , (the Labour paper), in an editorial. regarding the Tasmanian Governor-Generalship, suggests that owing to the scarcity of sufficiently wealthy Labourites in Britain, efforts should be made to find a candidate in one of the other Dominions. Such an innovation would do more to show that the. British . States were really united than years of talk of miles of articles. REDUCING CABLE RATES. • LONDON, Aug. 14. The Australian Postmaster-General (Mr Gibson) states that he has arranged for a reduction of Eastern Extension and Pacific cable rates to Australia by sixpence, a word, with proportionate reductions for press and deferred messages. The new rates commence on December 1. CLAIM FOR DAMAGES FAILS. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13. At Los Angeles a breach of contract suit against Jack White, a wealthy mining man, was brought, by Ann Luther, the well-known serial cinema actress. Her claim for 100,000 dollars damages was thrown out of court. TO MARRY MILLIONAIRE. OTTAWA, Aug. 13. The Toronto Star announces that Miss Vernon \yatson, a pretty daucer of this country and a cousin of Mary Bickford, will be married next May to a young millionaire of New York. The name of the millionaire is withheld for the present. The wedding will take place at Mary Bickford’s palatial home at Beverley Hills, California. REVOLT IN MOROCCO. LONDON, Aug. 14. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Express says the rising of native tribes in the Spanish zone of Morocco created a situation approaching a panic in Melilla. The rebels surrounded the Ellau Line, in which the Spanish garrison is imprisoned. General Derivera has despatched reinforcements. SAFETY AT SEA. LONDON, Aug. 13. New Board of Trade regulations, which operate on July 1, 1925, require the vessels of foreign Governments, in addition to lifeboats, to carry buoyant apparatus with accommodation for 25 per cent of the personnel, together with a motor boat equipped with wireless and a searchlight for every 15 lifeboats. The davits must lie capable of turning out against the heaviest list, and each lifeboat, in addition to water and biscuits, must carry one pound of condensed milk per occupant. The milk idea is the result of the experience of the Trevessa. WORLD FLIGHT. DELHI, Aug. 14. Major Zanni (the Argentinian aviator) has left Calcutta for Rangoon. RUSSIANS BANNED. BERNE, Aug. 13. The Government has forbidden Russians to enter Switzerland. SEQUEL TO FIGHT. LONDON, Aug. 13. As a sequel to a fight at the Annaghmore Orange celebrations between Thomas Benson and Joseph McAclam, the former obtained a rifle and "shot McAdam. Two others are dead, and two were wounded. He was arrested.