GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

PRINCESS ROYAL. (United Preee Association—By Electric telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, September 30. The latest messages from Braemar are more reassuring, as the haemorrhage is slight. It is hoped that the doctors will allow the Princess to travel to London at the week-end. CONDITION UNCHANGED. LONDON, September 1. A bulletin states the Princess Royal’s condition-is unchanged after a disturbed night. A MANIAC’S SUICIDE. A HORRIBLE END. NICE, October 1. Intending to leave nothing to chance Casasco, an accountant, suffering from persecution mania, placed bottles of petrol in every nook and cranny in his apartment, including cupboards and drawers and sprinkled trains of sulphur therefrom to the hath which lie also ffiled with petrol. He then drank a bottle of champagne, entered the bath and set fire to it. He instantly became a human torch of which only a handful of charred bones remained, when the firemen finally mastered the flames.^ SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION. FINDING OF HUGE FOOTPRINTS. (Received this dnv nt 10 n.m.) CAPETOWN. October 1. The Italian scientific expedition lias returned to Bulawayo and reports finding a stone imprint of an enormous human foot at Limpopo Four imprints were tViscoverod altogether of an unknown man showing an.thorpoidic tendencies. The distance from the heel to the toe was thirty-four centimetres and the greatest width of the foet, fourteen centimetres. The footprints were distinctly of a. human type and wore made by a man. who probably was responsible for the large stone hand axes found in Africa, which have hitherto baffled scientists, IRISH FREE STATE. (Received fhi« div at, 11 n.m.) LONDON, October 1. The report that the Irish Free State has informed the co-Doniinions of her candidature of the League Council seat in 1920 is officially confirmed. The. Australian Press Association is informed the announcement takes too much for granted as there is no justification for assuming Australia will press her claims as the next senior Dominion, a principle to which the Free State objects.

MUSSOLINI'S ACTION.

ROME, October 1. Following his own shedding of portfolios Signor Mussolini has dispensed with tiie lesser lights of the -Fascist Sicirer i Grand Council, which in 'future will be limited to Ministers and heads of the chief Fascist corporations. BRITISH REVENUE. LONDON, Oet. 1. The half-year’ revenue was £284,056.000 which is an increase of £4,844,000 compared with the corresponding period of last year. The expenditure was £234,918,000 an incroae of £9,061,000. Receipts from income tax increased by £2,228.000.' Customs increased by £2.421,000 and excise decreased by £3,521.000.