GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 April 1925, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

EARL OF BALFOUR. UY CABLE— press association- copy eight JERUSALEM, March 31. The Earl of Balfour visited the Holy Sepudchre. He then motored to Jericho uiid the Dead. Sea unmolested. GERMAN REPARATION PAYMENTS. LONDON, March 31. The Dominions have received from the Treasury the first instalment of the Dawes reparations- payments. Australia and Canada each received £135,000. AMERICAN FLEET BOYCOTT. ADELAIDE. April 1. The Trades and Labour Council derided to boycott the American Fleet during its visit to Australia, on the ground that it will antagonise fellowworkers in Japan.

PA WNBROKER’ S REQTTEST

LONDON, March 31

Alfred George, a London pawnbroker, who died at the. age of B§., leaving over £IOO,OOO, directed that three doctors should separately examine him “after his supposed death,” and that £IOOO should be paid to any one. of the three who should discover that he was not dead, but merely m a trance and should so restore him to life.

BRITAIN’S LIQUOR BILL.

LONDON, April 1. . 1 Britain spent £316,000,000 during .1924 on alcoholic liquors, this representing 145 s per head for the year, I i compared with 142 s per head in 1923. |» The Exchequer secured £137,000,000 a.s taxation.

EMPIRE EXHIBITION SUBSIDY

LONDON, March 31. The House of Commons read a second time the British Empire Exhibition Guarantee Bill, ,by which £1,100,000 is guaranteed. Mr' A. M. Samuel, the mover, hoped that the exhibition would open in the first week in May.