GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 August 1925, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT VANCOUVER, Aug. 21. The Chinese boycott of British ships has spread here. To-day 16 Orientals of the crew of the City of Victoria refused dutv under instructions from Shanghai." Court proceedings have commenced. LONDON, Aug. 21. The Financial Times, advocating the unification of British law, says some Dominions might well follow the example of India, which is introducing new insurance legislation. The legal control of insurance in Australia is very loose. What is wanted now is a Federal law,removing the State anomalies and bringing obligations as far as possible into line with those enforcenLl n 1-| O T*AA FORT DE FRANCE, Aug. 21. An. attempt was made to assassinate the Governor .of the Island of Martinique (Mr Richard) as he was embarking on a steamer. Four shots were fired at him, and ho was seriously wounded. LONDON, Aug. 21. The Daily Express save the question of the disposal of the Government interests in" the British Dyestuffs Corporation has been referred to the Civil Research Committee. Cabinet line been considering the matter, and there is no doubt disposal will be decided upon. The Government will demand an undertaking that the corporation will not be permitted to fall into foreign hands. A remarkable collision occurred off Bolt Mead between the British and French schooners Pursuit and Boywill. The vessels became interlocked, the impact throwing the crews on their backs. The crews took to the boats and landed. Meanwhile the fillips drifted still locked, together, and eventuallv struck the ro-ks. PEKIN. Aug. 22.

It is reported from Chinese sources that Red volunteers at Ahifung captured Father Rianehi, a Catholic missionary. Mr Gerald Marcuse, a wireless experimenter, whose station is 2NM, reports daylight conversations with the United .States warship Seattle, lying in Wellington harbour. On one occasion there was brilliant sunshine at each end. Professor Henry E. Armstrong, an expert in food preservation, criticising the new food regulations, points out that benzoic acid, which is permissible in wines, sauces and pickles, is much more harmful to the delicate tissues than boric acid, which was banned, though scientific opinion declared that it was among the indispensables. “Per son .ally.” lie said, “I would much rather eat butter preserved with boric acid than eat rancid butter.” The Minister, he held, in view of the contradictions of the prohibited schedule, should issue the evidence on which the schedule was based. CAPETOWN. Aug. 22.

It is reported from Elisabethville that a native religious fanatic and some followers are holding meetings in the neighbourhood of Sakania and making forcible conversions. They slaughtered 50 natives in one village. V small patrol of native nolice sent to investigate were driven off with casualties’both in killed and wounded. The Belgian authorities have dispatched troops.