LATE CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1930, Page 7

LATE CABLE NEWS

LONDON TO AUSTRALIA. FLIGHT IN fro UR DAYS. LONDON, July 29. British long-disai nee flyers are considering the possibility of a non-stop flight to Australia, suites the aeronautical correspondent of the “Evening News.” A Fairey-Napier long-distance monoplane, such as wan used 'by the late Squadron-Leader J ones- Wi. Hams in his 50-hour non-stop Indian flight, could reach Australia with one refuelling over India. A Puss-Moth, which has a range of 4000 miles, could manage with refuelling at Basra and Singapore. Such a flight would bring Auntralia within four days at the longest. Two pilots, working alternately, would be needed. Providing for the refuelling of the aircraft would he much simpler than laying fuel at dumps in inaccessible spots. NO RELATIVES LEFT. ELDERLY MAN’S VAIN QUEST. LONDON, July 26. Mr Taylor, aged 74, a puntman on the Lower Clarence River for 28 years is to sail for Australia after a fruitless quest for his English relatives. Ho migrated to Australia in. 1880 and revisited bis home several months ago, thinking that lie might spend the rest of bis life among his relatives in scenes familiar to his youth. Finding that all his relations were dead, Mr Taylor decided after a heart-breaking search to finish his life on. the Clarence River, where liehas manyfriends. “MY CRICKETING DAYS.” MACARTNEY’S REMINISCENCES. LONDON, July 26. Mr C. G. Macartney’s book, “My Cricketing Days,” will be published shortly by Heinemann’s. The author’s earliest cricket recollection is of his grandfather, George Moore, who bowled green apples to him when he was five. His grandfather made him a cedarwood bat, which he still possesses.

Mr Macartney mentions the game in France during the war in which ho and O’Connor, of Waverley, and the late Frank O’Keefe figured. They played to the accompaniment of the Ger-

.. t mans shelling a captive balloon close by. The match was finished, but lie forgets the result. The author says he favours a threeday limit for Test matches. Discussing the 1928-1929 Test series he says: “Bradman was somewhat crude in his aggression, while Jackson was more polished. Fairfax was a promising young all rounder, of whom there was a lamentable scarcity.” He condemns the batsmen’s “slow motion” methods. 'j Mr Macartney says also that undue importance is attached to records. Referring to barracking, lie says: “I fail to see that the Australian barracking is partial. I cannot understand any Englishman being sensitive enough to allow remarks by the crowd to prevent him from performing his work.” FAMILY RESCUED. MILLIONS IRE’S G ALLANTRY. LONDON, July 26. A millionaire’s dash on horseback to save his chaffeur and family was one of the most thrilling rescue incidents of the Yorkshire floods. Coastguards vainly attempted to rescue with rocket apparatus the chaffeur, Ernest Fletcher, and his wife and child, who were marooned in a house surrounded by a raging . torrent. Major H. R, Bell, Fletcher’s employer, rode into the water, and was almost swept uway with his horse. He turned back, and after several attempts got through, with his horse almost swimming. The child was handed out. of the window and carried to safety. Major Bell also saved the mother and father. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. ECONOMIC PROBLEMS TO BE FACED. : LONDON,' .Inly 31. “It is well that the ence is handling economic questions instead of a less authoritative body, I 'for the economic problem dominates all others,” says “The Times,” in' a leading article. “The public throughout the Empire expect the most definite and useful results in the economic field. “By comparison 1 with’ how ; to : re-es-tablish the Empirfe’s declining prosperity, discussion of academic, legal, and constitutional questions becomes a mere futility. The agenda shows that the Government is making full provision to consider every phase of the economic problem. “The Government has a. great opportunity to create a new Empire unity, based on free co-operation of the constituent nations in the place of legislative and administrative supremacy of the Imperial Parliament, which has long disappeared.” /..