GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1927, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

\2j Telegraph—Per Press Association.'

ROUMANIA’S KING. BUCHAREST, Oct. 28. AT. Bratiano won the confidence- <s£ Parliament byl the vigorous denunciation of attempts to interfere with monarch and constitution. He impassionedly recalled the late King’s words at the time of Prince Carol’s renunciation when he said ‘‘the rotten ‘branch of the dynasty must bo cut off so that we shall remain healthy.” . QUAKE DAMAGE. TOKIO, Oct. 28. The earthquake covered a considerable area of the west coast, but caused few casualties. Communications were interrupted. Reports vary regarding intensity, some asserting the violence etjuqlleTl 1923. > -pTokio and the larger towns to the north-west were not affected. MAIL ROBBERY CASE. LONDON, Oct. 28. The mail robbery case prosecution said Foster, until the robbery, had been hard up. living at Merthyr Tydvil where he owed the guardians £2O for support of his wife and child. The day after the robbery he reappeared and said an Australian relative had bequeathed him money, which he was going out to get. He pdd the guardians five pounds, and meanwhile he opened an account with a London bank for a thousand sterling m the name of Roberts. He used the alias of Thomas in a London hotel. The prosecution added that Foster claiming he had had a successful day at the races got a bookmaker, Chaiidlei, to exchange some hundred Treasury notes for hank notes. Chandler paid in the missing Treasury notes. Witnesses identified accused as a traveller by the train when the robbery was committed. SURVIVORS OF WRECK. LONDON, Oct, 28. Four more survivors of the Isabo have landed at Penzance. Two missing. , TOTE PROPOSAL.

LONDON, Oct. 29. It is pointed out that the legality of greyhound betting is not questioned. The result of the Court’s decision was purely on a technicality concerning the allocation of regular stands for bookmakers. The decision to introduce the totalisator faced a fixed reception by owners and bettors. The majority regard it as inevitable and a splendid, thing for racing. Others are emphatic that it will be harmful. Bookmakers arc-', unanimously protesting, though pro- * minent turf men fail to see how it will prevent bookmakers from carrying'tiii. Australia’s example is extensively quoted in newspapers. The Telegraph,” reviewing the controversy refers to the alleged increase in the Australian Government’s revenue from the totalisator, and quotes one authoritative view thereof, that it is absolutely untrue in Australia where bookmakers work alongside the totalisator, and revenue from the machine has definitely decreased, and i.s decreasing yearly, likewise in New Zealand, it is hut a plaything of women and ehikLb ren. GREYHOUND RACING. CAPETOWN, Oct. 29. Greyhound racing promoters arc disturbed by the prospect of special legislation being passed by life Cape provincial authorities, banning this sport, on the ground of its effect upon Hie coloured population. The provincial authorities already have power to prohibit hotting, and unless public opinion is otherwise they may go further ** and ban greyhound racing completely.

COSMETICS AND HAIRDRESSING. LONDON, Oct. 29. ’flic weekly spendings in England oil' hairdressing, face lifting, manicuring, powder creams and cosmetics generally is in the neighbourhood of four million sterling. This is considered the esti- ' mate of an expert at one of the most popular Wet End parlours. Thcrb are between eighteen and twenty million bobbed and shingled. This is one of tlie items on which most money is spent because it involves attention at least fortnightly.

FASCISTS’ ANNIVERSARY

LONDON, Oct. 28. .w.. “The Gazette’s” Rome correspondent says that Mussolini, in a message to the Blackshirts on the occasion of the anniversary, declared: “Deeds, not words, has been our record for the past five years. For the fifth time the date returns that, stirs hearts, illumines hopes, and humiliates faint-hearted enemies. Our arduous work is crowned with the massing of our armed legions, who constitute a solemn warning to whosover is foolish enough to impede progress. Let no one perfect instruments of revolution. Multiply our forces and temper your spirits in readiness for any battle. Blackshirts! Yoq arc young men eager for more daring; trials. Up with your standard and rifles, aiul let the cry of our faith b© heard over all horizons.’’

NEW PRAYER BOOK. LONDON, Oct. 28.

The King’s Bench gave a barrister permission to apply for a writ prohibiting the National Assembly of the Church of England proceeding further witli the new Prayer Book. Tile barrister contended that the law required three classes., the Clergy. Laity and Bishops should debate the new Prayer Book, whereas only the* Bishops debated it. The case will be argued on November 7.

PRAYER BOOK. LONDON, Oct. 29,

Tho Primate, replying to the request that he receive a deputation who are anxious for on assurance that Bishops will insist upon strict observance of the new prayer book, willingly assented thereto, but meantime announced that every English Bishop except the Bishop of Norwich had already intimated they would require obedience f to the new rules of worship. CLERGY’S INCOMES. LONDON, Oct. 28. ' The condition of Britain’s povertystricken clergy may be gauged from the report to the Special Clergy Commission, stating that are growing poorer. The income of over two hundred incumbents does not reach two hundred sterling annually. All additional relief is neutralized by depreciated values, higher cost of commodities. Incomes as a whole are 16.2 jter cent less than in 1910. and frequently lower still. The Commission suggests standardising the size of vicarages proportionate to income and beneficies. They are at present too large, ill designed and ill-equipped houses, sur- „ rounded by large grounds, and a fruitful cause of embarrassment. The Commission urges tho establishment of a Maintenance Committee to cooperate in an effort at securing a fixed income to safeguard the clergy’s interest, giving attention to lengtli of service and difficulties of married men with children.