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GENERAL CABLES.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COFYRIGfIT. FEZ, Oct. 12. Owing to heavy rain military movements are practically at a. standstill. The infantry established contact with the cavalry at Sidibourokba. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. American troops Panama City at the request of the civic authorities and suppressed strike disorders. 'CHICAGO, Oct. 12. No wheat report is being issued today, as the city is holding a holiday in honour of the anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of America. BERLIN, Oct. 12. Sigmund Brietbart, reputed to be the world’s strongest man, declining an anaesthetic, died following the amputation of, a leg. He contracted blood poisoning during a circus turn from a rusty nail when lying prone beneath a spiker board, over-which passed a heavily laden lorry. BERLIN, Oct. 12.

A Germo-Russian commercial treaty has been signed at Moscow. It recognises Russian foreign trade monopoly, allows German banks and trading houses to open Russian branches, and frees German Nationals in Russia from labour and military requisitions. SYDNEY, Oct. 13.

In connection with the bogus race books circulated at the Randwick spring meeting, two men, Corson, a printer, and Solomons, a bookbinder, were committed for trial on charges of forging a. hook with intent to defraud. Two others, Flack, a newsvendor, and Robinson, a newspaper distributor, were committel on charges of uttering. All pleaded not guiltv.' LONDON, Oct. 12.

Seeing the only chance of avoiding a collision was to dash across the line before the arrival of a steam train, the driveled an electric train approaching a junction at Llandudno station just failed to- clear the danger point. The third coach, containing forty school children, was partially wrecked, but none was seriously injured. The fourth carriage was smashed to matchwood and ten were injured. An extraordinary feature was that the ’train drivers were father and son. LONDON, Oct. 13. ’ A statement in the annual report of the scientific and industrial research committee to the Privy Council states that during the year experiments were made as how best to freeze beef. The general theory of the freezing of oolloids had been advanced to a point opening the way to a ratidnal attack on the problem. It was revealed that freezing displaced the contained water, which may involve permanent alteration of a microscopic structure, and consequently the permanent destruction of the finer molecular structure. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. Secretary of War Weeks has tendered his resignation to President Coolidge. It is believed ill-health s> the cause. LONDON, Oct. 12. Mr. Justice Finlay, in Chambers, declined an application on behalf of Earl Mayo to make an order restraining auctioneers, pending the trial of an action, from sending out of the country any of the late Lord Leverhulme’s art collection. SYDNEY, Oct. 13. At the wool sales there was animated buying ift all sections, France, Germany and Yorkshire keenly competing. Prices generally advanced 24 'per cent, to £5 per cent, on late rates. Greasy merinos touched 274 d.

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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 14 October 1925, Page 5

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GENERAL CABLES. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 14 October 1925, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 14 October 1925, Page 5

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