GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 30 June 1925, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

BY CABLE—PRESS A JSOCZ.ATJON^-COPYRIOIi'J NEW YORK,- June 28. - A telegram front Gloucester, (Massa' chmsetts) states that fourteen members of the crew - were drowned.i\when the fishing schooner Rex whs rammed arid sunk in a fog by the British steamer Tiuseania. Nine were rescued. BRISBANE,. J une 29.

The suspected plague patient is convalescent and with the passage of time 'it appears that bacteriological tests 'will give .only negative results. SYDNEY, June 29: The Chief Secretary (Mr. O. C. Lazzarini) announced that he was fsulbmoitting.a Bill to Cabinet on Tuesday, providing for the abolition of night baking. MELBOURNE, June 29. The Hon. W.. P. Crockett, a member of the Legislative Council, has resigned his position as honorary Minister in the State Government on the' ground that he was dissatisfied w.-th the policy of the Ministry and its general attitude towards the platform of the Country Party., ' At the conclusion .of the inquest in connection with the' collapse of the ' British and Australasian TobacoV Com-pany-s premises the coronerl committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter .Francis Davis, architect, Robert Ashley ■Cooper, one of ; the contractors, land Albert Royal, clerk of works. Nominal bail was allowed.

PARirS, June 28. The Lord Mayor of London was tire principal guest at a civic banquet at Verdun on the ninth anniversary of the blattle of Verdun. M. Poincare, in a speech, said he believed London’s generosity an adopting Verdun was not the demonstration of passing sentiments, but a brilliant testimony to vnsha'ke•able i friendship’ for Verdun’s citizens. He realised that there were sympathies and interests closely uniting the two countries. He therefore toasted the perennial alliance of the Anglo-French peoples.