GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1932, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

r»HAR LAP’S HIDE. (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SAN FRANCISCO, ' October 26. The stuffed hide- of 'Phar Lap was shipped to Australia to-day aboard the ttvionowai. HELPING LEAGUE OF NATIONS. RUGBY, October 27. Several Governments have already made gifts of furniture and panelling for the equipment of the League of Nations’ new building at Geneva. The British Government have under consideration the making seme such voluntary contribution.

LORD STRICKLAND AND MALTA. MALTA, Oct. 27. Condemning the Nelsonian School of Thought in England, which advocated the abandonment ot Malta and blockading the Mediterranean by means of bases at the entrance, Lord Strickland told the Senate that Lord Fisher’s intervention prevented the abandonment of the Island. If the British loft Malta it .wou.d be occupied by France under threat of war. A

The possiblity of war in the near future was indicated by the flow of capital into English banks and the masses of bullion in the Bank of France. JAP TERRORIST PLOT REVEALED TOKIO, Oct. 27. The police discovered a terrorist plot to murder a Court official and an. Army general during the forthcoming manoeuvres Reactionary pamphlets distributed by junior Army officer's wore seized.

motor Record broken. LONDON, October 20. Driving a six-cylinder Riley at 111.65 miles an hour, George Eyston, the wellknown British motorist, broke the 200rpile record for the 1500 c.-c. class. NOBEL PRIZE. JOINTLY AWARDED. STOCKHOLM, October 27. The Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology in 1032 has been jointly awarded to Sir Charles Sherrington and Professor Edgar Douglas Adrian, for discoveries in connection with function neurons.