GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 October 1925, Page 11

GENERAL CABLES.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Oct. 15. The 'Colonial Office unhesitatingly discredits the rumour that the King is considering a grand tour of the Elmpire in 1926, including Canada, Austral in New Zealand and South Africa, and incidentally opening the Federal Parliament at Canberra. The office states it is not cn.’y unprecedented but impracticable, because it would necessitate putting the Crown into commission, for at least six months. Nevertheless it is quite possible that the Duke of York will open Canberra. M,r Unitt, accompanied by his daughter, who set out in a nine-ton yawl to sail to New Zealand, arrived at Bristol on board the Newburn. Both declared that they were undismayed and would willingly make another Merganser. The master ’of the Newburn expressed the opinion that the trip had no chance of success. The Unitts were twice battened down practically in a coffin for three days in the Bay of Biscay with no prope,r means of navigation. LONDON, Oct. 15. The Marconi Company is installing microphones and head ’phones in the House of Lords owing to the bad acoustics. Head ’phones have also been, supplied to the reporters. DELHI, Oct. 15.

The Maharajah of Kashmir, Sir Hari Singh, better known as Mr A in the notorious divorce case, has been formally installed on the throne of Kashmir.

PEKING, Oct. 15. The harbourmaster at Hongkong lias issued a warning that the Canton authorities have laid mines off Bogue Forth. Vessels going to Canton should take special pilots when proceeding through the minefields. BUCHAREST, Oct. 15. The police have discovered a Bolshevik plot to assassinate the King and Queen of Roumania, which would be the signal for the start of a revolution. for which numbers of weapons, bombs and band grenades wei'e hidden in Bessarabiav