GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 5 June 1924, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

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PARIS, May 3. At a sale the Ridder art collectioa realised 11,500,000 francs.—Renter.

Mrs Alfred Harmsworth. and Viscount Rothermere have given £60,000 to the Middle Temple to establish a benevolent endowment in memory of the late Alfred Harmsworth, husband and father, who was a barriser.

Sir Jiseph Duveen paid £31,000 for Franz Hals' "Portrait of a Woman."

The Daily Express' Paris correspondent states that Madame Buchin threw herself in front of a train at Lonslesaunier and was decapitated. Later the police found her husband dead at home with a butcher's knife through his heart. It is supposed she committed murder and then committed suicide. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 2. In connection with the fire at the Hope School, California, in which 23 girls were burned to death, Mrs D. Thomas (the matron) sacrificed her life in a vain effort to lead the girls from the burning structure. Wilfrid Ringer, son of an attendant, was killed. WASHINGTON. June 3. It is officially annonuced that foot and mouth disease in California, which necessitated the slaughter of many herds of cattl6, has been checked, but it is not certain whether there will be a complete eradication for several months. Much territory ha s been released from quarantine. Officials state that there is no dependable cure, not even the method of treatment discovered. ST. JOHNS, June 3. The defeat of the Hickman Government at Monday's general elections is conceded by the administration. , The returns available indicate the election of eighteen members of the Opposition and two Government supporters. TOKIO, June 3. All the Tokio and Osaka newspapers were represented at a meeting at Tokio j to-night on anti-American exclusion. A (resolution was passed declaring grim determination not to abide permanently by Congress's rash discriminatory decision.—Reuter.

VJEVNA, June 3. Doctors now cautiously express hopes of the recovery of the Chancellor (Herr Seipel), who was shot by a Communist.. A special sitting of the National Assembly passed a resolution expressing horror at the crime.

HONGKONG, June 3. The bandits have released the kidnapped American and Canadian, instructing them to arrange the payment of a ransom for the remaining captives. The American vice-consul has arrived at Wu Chow from Canton to facilitate the release oi the other missionaries.

NEW YORK, June 3. After beating off Chinese pirates, floating through two typhoons, losing a rudder, eating chow-do and part of a sixteen foot python, which he killed in single combat while making a twoyear voyage across the Pacific and the Atlantic in a fifty-three foot junk of his own construction. Cantain George Maard, of Canadian-Dutch parentage, anchored at Sheepshead Bay and said he planned to remain until tired of it. Then he would sail through the Panama Canal for China for further adventure.