GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1937, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

A BLIZZARD CAUSES 60 DEATHS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright), INSTANBUL, January 19. ' Sixty peasants were frozen to death jin blizzards in Anatolia,' Villages are isolated and many have been attacked by large packs of wolves. i I U.S. GOLD. NEW YORK January 18. | One hundred and twenty million dollars in gold have been shipped to Fort Knox by the United States assay office, which expects to make -similar shipments at least once a week until May. GALE DAMAGE. RUGBY, January 18. During a gale in the English Channel heavy seas pounded the coast defence works and and promenades at pleasure resorts and drove many vessels to-shelt-er. The train ferry service between Dover and Dunkirk was cancelled. The lie de France, a former flagship of the North Atlantic service, wa s severely damaged when driven against the quay at Le Havre. One propeller will have to be replaced. SURVEY PARTY LOCATED. ALL \Y ELL. LONDON, January 19. Tim Governor of the Falkland Islands, aboard the Ajax, wirelessed the Colonial Office early this morning as follows: “The missing party has been located, and has returned to the Discovery. All’s well.” AMERICAN FLOODS. CHICAGO, January 18. Continued rain brought further threats to the flooded areas in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, and Missouri, where five persons are dead. Damage estimated at thousands of dollars has been done to farmlands, buildings, factories and mines. U.S. MOTOR CARS. WASHINGTON, January 18. The Department of Commerce has announced there is a distinctly favourable outlook for an improvement of the motor vehicle trade with-New Zealand. Approximately twenty-three thousand cars were sold in the Dominion in 1936, and the trade expects an increase of 15 per cent in 1937, barring price changes.