MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 126, 4 May 1925, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

The House of Commons passed the third reading of the British Empire Exhibition Guarantee Bill. The Telegraph Construction Company Greenwich, is building a new vessel to lay a cable between Vancouver and Fanning Island, because none is long enough to transport the length of cubic required. The executive committee of the Sydney war memorial proposes, subject to confirmation by the Senate, to accept a tender for a carillion of 49 bells in a frame work capable of carrying 53 uu der a guarantee from the tendering firm that the tower arrangements arc perfectly suitable and artistic. Success is assured. The amount subscribed is £17,390. Sir Robert Hadfield announces that a long-cherished dream of armament ex perts and metallurgists has been realised. He claims that his firm has perfected an armour-piercing shell for Britain’s 16-inch guns. The “Daily Herald" states that the All Russian Council of Trades Unions, meeting at Moscow, unanimously ratified the agreement reached at the London conference concerning Russia’s relationship to the international conference. The shipping correspondent of the “Morning Post," commenting on the invitation of tenders for the purchase of the Commonwealth line steamers, says: “This is a practical confession of the inability of the State to run shipping as a commercial enterprise. Shipping is a business requiring the greatest skill in-the hands of experienced private owners. In State enterprise that personal skill is lacking." The American naval seaplane P.N. 9, flying over a 40-mile course over the Delaware river since Friday morning, has established a world’s record nonstup record of 28 hours 36 minutes ,at an average speed of 80 miles an hour, carrying a crew of four and supplies. The machine will be used for a non-stop-flight from San Francisco to Honelulus this summer. The steamer President Vanburen has been refloated after grounding near Kobe, Japan.