GENERAL CABLES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 25 August 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

SHAH OF PERSIA

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A LARGE ESTATE

xv >r LONDON. Aug. 23 P K ary B ™ left an ertate of £637,000. and bequeathed £50,000 to her son-in-law, Lord Harcourt

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Ti, o +■ i i. PARIS, Aug. 23. The trial has commenced of a Frenchman named Georges Q u ie n for J f e,tra^g the late Miss Edith CaveH after sh e had befriended him. dveu

CHARGE OF BLACKMAIL

rh r ~ pARIS, Aug 24. Ihe police have arrested Angelvin nl erk l° T a fii' m of colonial imports' Galmot arge -° f ftt^Ptfrß to blackmail braimot, a rival importer, for £12,000.

I.W.W. PREMISES RAIDED

LONDON, Aug. 23. Ihe police: raided the premises of t}\vFl nS£ r'ia\ Wo^er ß of the World at Whitechapel, and discovered a great quantity of literature advocating; s f bot-

THE PRINCE OF WALES,

to. t> • QUEBEC, Aug. 23 The Prince of Wales, responding to c 2n lL greet f lgS'^ th- anked the Fr^" Canadians for their loyalty to the throne.

GOVERNMENT HOUSE BUILDING IN BRITAIN.

. LONDON, Aug. 22. Ihe Ministry of Health received 180 rt W 11168 last week > totalling 0000. The department is now preparing plans for 430,000 houses. The Ministry has chosen 700 unoccupied London mansions for conversion into flats.

AERIAL RELIABILITY TEST,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. lne Army Air Service has announced a two-way New York to Toronto airplane reliability test race for August 25. Fifty machines of different types are competing. The Prince of Wales will start the flyers at Toronto.

UNITED STATES ARMY OF OCCUPATION.

, WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. The war Department has announced that after September 1 the United States army remaining in Germany will number 6000 picked men.

ROUMANIAN HEIR

, PARIS, Aug. 23. Ihe Roumanian Council of Ministers has recognised Nicholas, the King's second son, as heir to the throne. He left London immediately for Bucharest.

MR F. M. B. FISHER'S OPPONENT

LONDON, Aug. 23. Mr Henderson is opposing Mr F. M B Fisher for the Widnes by-election. He declared in. connection with his visit to Russia in 1917 that Cabinet had authorised him to replace the Ambassador at Petrograd at a salary of £8000. He ascertained Cabinet's dissatisfaction with the Ambassador was due to a misapprehension. Therefore he refused the post. He subsequently resigned his Cabinet Ministersnip, attaching to which was a salary of £5000, rather than sacrifice his principles.

INDICTED GERMAN OFFICERS

LONDON, Aug. 22. The Government has no official information from Germany that she will refuse to surrender officers indicted for breaches of the laws of warfare.

Some misgiving has arisen owing to the release of Keisewetter, the notorious submarine commander, in direct opposition to the Admiralty's wishes.

SOLDIERS AND EX-SOLDIERS,

LONDON, Aug. 22. Three hundred men of the Warwick, Berkshire, and Gloucestershire Regiments refused to parade for embarkation to France, believing they were to be sent to distant theatres, especially Russia. They have been put under armed escort.

Five hundred ex-soldiers at Manchester intend to march to London, accompanied by a band and banners, occupying sixteen days, as an appeal to the Minister of Labor for employment at a living wage, also increased unemployment pay.

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

FREMANTLE, Aug. 24. Mr Hughes and Sir Wm. Cook have arrived. They had an enthusiastic welcome. Returned soldiers ard sailoi^s dragged their motor cars to the Town Hall, Mr Hugses wearing a. soldier's hat, hJs own having fceen reirfoved. Mr Hughes addressed a great gathering at the Town Hall. He sternly warn- j ed the, public against making attempts 1 in the way of Bolshevism. It any party j attempted to usurp power by unoonsti-! tuxional means, then by horse, foot, I and military he would oppose them. \ Short of murder or marrying more than ' one wife at a time, every returned sol- j «i'ier could count on him looking after their rights. SYDNEY, Aug. 24. The jury disagreed and were disI charged in the Ryan libel case. The judge will to-morrow consider an application by each party that judgment be entered'for it. BRISBANE. Aug. 24. A fire destroyed Davy and Company's boot factory. The damage was in the vicinity of £50,000. SYDNEY, Aug. 22. In both the New South Wales and Federal Parliaments much criticism is proceeding in connection with the wheat question. In the New South Wales Assembly the Minister for Agriculture put up a strong defence over matters arising out of the recent commission on enquiry into the Georgeson contract, and the subsequent comments fcheroon in the Federal House. Adverse comments on the operations of the wheat pool, and it s alleged wasteful method:1, 1«I to the production of much official matter to prove that the pool acted in the interests of farmers and made the best of a position that had been rendered very difficult by war conditions, also to show that Mr Pratten's estimated loss of thirty million hush els was laregly overestimated. Mr tratten's statement resulted in a heavy slump in wheat scrip, estimated at l'j millions sterling.