GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 June 1926, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. GENEVA, June 26. The Mandates Commission has ended and; will meet again in November. SYDNEY, June 27. Two serious accidents, luckily not attended by loss of life, occurred on Saturday evening. An electric tramcar at Carlton crashed into a stationary tram, 27 being injured, while at Brunswick two motor buses collided, " and nine were injured. In both cases 1 t,he vehicles, which were football specials, were heavily laden with passengers. HONOLULU, June 26. The Pan-Pacific Union has appointed committees for a Polynesian research conference here in 1928 in connection with the Captain Cook sesquicentennial ceremonies. Sir Joseph Carruthers, referring to the conference, said: “The Polynesians shall not perish. ’’ LONDON, June 27. Lady Houston, whom four specialists recently examined and declared mentally and physically fit, petitioned the Jersey Court to annal an appointment of curator of her late husband’s large estate, pointing out that the specialists’ report showed her ill-health to have culminated in .an attack ol jaundice, accompanied by mental confusion, .which disappeared when the jaundice was cured. The court adjourned the application to enable the principal residents of the Island 1 to hear the medical evidence, in accordance with Channel Island law. Lady Houston, on hearing the decision, collapsed, declaring it unfair and alleging conspiracy against her.