GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 September 1924, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

ANGLO-RUSSIAN TREATY

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT(Received Sept. 29, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 28. Instancing the fight the Labourites are putting up in support of the Angio-Russian.treaties, the Daily Herald says the Independent Labour Party alone-held 400 pro-treaty meetings throughout the country during the week-end.

BAND CHAMPIONSHIP. LONDON, Sept. 27. The Crystal Palace championship was won by St. Kilda, with Black Duke second and Newcastle Steelworkers third. The attendance was over 50,000 for the championship. The Newcastle Steelworkers’ Band, after a successful provincial tour and an achieved record by winning at the Halifax and Bellevue contests in the fame season, hoped to add a triple crown, but had to take third place by 1L the closest margin. Sixteen of the best hands in Britain in the test' piece, entitled the Cornish Coast.” It was a specially composed for the contest by Mr Henry Geehl, who acted as one of the adjudicators. The piece was built upon old Cornish airs, and arranged to test to the fullest every instrujnentalist. The Australians were enthusiastically ovationed at the concert following the competition, when they played Jenkins tone poem “Life Divine,” for which they were doubly encored, giving “Kelda,” by Code, a Melbournian, and “Because.” In both cases Arthur Spender played cornet solos. The band ' leaves on October 16, and tours S'outh Africa, and proposes later to tour New Zealand and Australia.

A TERRIBLE FALL

PARIS, Sept. 28. Madame Darcy, parachutist, when trying a new parachute, threw herself from an aeroplane. The parachute failed to open. The woman crashed to earth, and was instantly killed. PRICE OF FLOUR. (Received Sept. 29, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 28. Flour has increased in price a shilling. In London it is now 50s. This is the tenth increase since July. MINERS ENTOMBED. LONDON, Sept. 28. Four miners in a small colliery at Llammorda'is, who began work an hour before the usual time in order to attend the Swansea v. New Zealand match, were trapped and killed by a fall of earth, attributed to the firing of a shot.