GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

"United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) MT. VESUVIUS ERUPTING. A GREAT LAVA FLOW. ROME, Aug. 8. Naples reports that Mount Vesuvius is again in eruption. Flames spouted at noon from the south-west crater. A great quantity of lava of a. highly luminous kind shot out and formed a lake eighty yards in diameter, from which two streams of molten lava flowed, invading the western crater. Probably the lava will overflow at night, and rush into the valley below. INCA CITY DISCOVERED IN PERU. LIMA (Peru), Aug. 8. The accidental discovery by a scientific expedition exploring the town of Mnochupiuho, of an Inca city, where no white man had even been known to set foot, is reported in a telegram from the prefect of the Department of Cuzco, to President Leguia. From the windows of the Place In-ca Astronomical Observatory, one of the explorers saw with his binoculars, on the top of Tuainapiccho Mountain, the wells and platform of another town, whose existence was unknown. It was thought that no white man ever set foot there since the mountain was surrounded by a deep ravine, with sides extremely steep for scaling without careful preparations. Explorers say the town disappeared at the same time as the Inca Empire was wrecked by the Spanish conquerors.

EMIGRATION AGITATION. LONDON, August 8. Despite the display of cinema films and lectures (states the Juvenile Advisory Committee to the Ministry of Labour) the response of suitable boys to empire settlement schemes has been very small. It has been almost a complete failure in London, where the boys show a rooted objection to leave their home. The same experience was encountered in South Wales. There the juvenile unemployment.is most acute. Both the boys and the parents there disfavour emigration. In Glasgow the position is much the same. Generally speaking, the main obstacles to juvenile migration are the parental . objections, the town hoys’ distaste for a country life, and the distrust of the strange environment. £6,000 FOR SLATER, ~ X -f LONDON, August 8. The “ Daily Telegraph ” states that Oscar Slater has accepted from the Government, an offer of £6000,, as an ex-gratia payment in respect of his wrongful conviction in 1903. DISABLED STEAMER. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) TOKYO, August 8. -..e steamer Stanleydular from San Francisco to Shanghai is radioing an appeal that she is disabled in the neighbourhood of the Kuriles. The boilers are damaged. The President Grant is hastening to the rescue. CHINESE FLOOD DISASTER. THOUSANDS DROWNED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SHANGHAI, August 8. An abnormal rise of water in Yangtsze gorges 1 flooded vast areas oil the "right and left riverbanks and drowned thousands. Reports from Hankow state the water rose twenty feet in a few hours in certain tributaries of the A Yangtsze and sixtv-five feet in the gorges themselves. Hundreds of dead bodies are floating downstream. Many junks were capsized and thousands were flung helplessly into the rushing waters. Three junks filled with conscripted coolies were seized by the military at Hankow and transported to Honan, upset and two thousand with their hands tied and roped together were drowned. Several foreign gorge steamers had miraculous escapes from crashing on the rocks. BRITAIN AND CHINA. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) SHANGHAI, August 8. Peking reports an agreement has been reached with Britain and China regarding the Nanking incident. It is ready for signature, when the terms will be published. CHINESE CONFERENCE. SHANGHAI, August 8. The plenary session of the Kuomintang finally opened at Nanking, following a personal round-up of members at Shanghai by Chiang Kai-shek. Today’s proceedings were the inuguration c-eremony, and a discussion on the date of the State burial of Sun Yafc Sen, payment of bonuses to officers participating in the successful antinorthern expedition. The agenda is believed to include important SinoForeign questions, principally treaty revision. The progress of the Conference is closely watched by diplomatic representatives.