GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 May 1925, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES.

DOMESTICS FOR NEW ZEALAND. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT’ LONDON, May 22. Forty domestics embarked on the lonic for New Zealand under a pledge not to marry for at least t\yj years after their arrival. EPIDEMIC AT SAMOA. , SUVA, May 23. The epidemic of typhoid at Suva is subsiding. No new cases and no further deaths have been reported. FRONTIER FIGHT. ‘ LONDON, May 23. Official advices from Bagdad report fighting in Mesopotamia, j Kurdish chieftains’ forces attacked the Iraq cavalry in the Sulaimani district, on the Persian frontier. British aeroplanes bombed and routed the Kurds with heavy losses

BANK MERGER

OTTAWA, May 22.

Another big bank merger is announced by the acting-Minister for Finance (Air Robb), who states that the Royal Bank of Canada, with headquarters at Montreal, has absorbed the Union’ Bank of Canada, with headquarters at Winnipeg. Both banks have branches in all cities and towns of the Dominion.

EXPERIENCES OF A CUTTER, SUVA, May 23. The Tongan cutter Fugafaimata, of 20 tons, arrived at the Lakeba Lau group, Fiji, on May 16. She reports that she was blown from Tonga in a storm and grounded on a reef at Vanua Masi, jettisoning her cargo of copra. She was refloated, eventually reaching Lakeba, There were 33 persons on board, including lCh'young children. RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL LOSSES. LONDON, May 23. The Moscow correspondent of the Morning Post says that M. Djerjinskv, speaking at the Union Soviet Congress, said he valued Russia’s surviving industries at £300,000, but the Soviet newspaper Pravda admits that damages and losses to industry through seven years of disorganisation amounted to £1,000,000,000. A BRUTAL PAIR. BUDAPEST, May 22. Gustav Lerdener, an Hungarian officer, has been condemned to death for the murder of a wealthy butcher. He declared that the crime was instigated by his wife, who confessed that the butcher was her lover. Moreover, she helped him to cut up and hide the body. When he faltered she sneered: “You call yourself a soldier!” The wife denied participating in the crime, hut admitted helping to dispose of the body. When informed of the sentence she tried to hang herself, but was prevented.