GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 74, 22 February 1930, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON, Feb. 20. An intensive search of the Bonma» hon district, the combing out of miles of bogland, excavations on the seashore, and the dragging of a mine shaft failing to reveal the body of Laurence Griffin, an Irish Free State postman, the police brought a diver from Liverpool and lowered him down the narrow, deep Ballinassisla mine shaft. The diver reported that it was too dangerous to attempt diving operations, and the project was abandoned. It is now considered that, if the body is in the shaft, it will never be recovered. It was reported recently that Griffin disappeared at Stradbally, County Galway, on Christmas night. A police search for the body in a neighbouring mine shaft was unsuccessful. The sensational allegation that Griffin was sewn up in a blanket while still alive and thrown over a bridge or down the mine shaft was made by the State Prosecutor, Mr Finlay, in the Waterford Police Court, when ten inhabitants of Stradbally, were charged with murdering Griffin and conspiring to dispose of the body. The prosecution asserted that the missing man was knocked down by Cashin during a quarrel in an hotel. LONDON, Feb. 20. Lindrum’s score in the billiard match is 20,813, including breaks of 625 and 425; MeConachy is 19,153, including breaks of 414, 649 and 561. Smith is 20,120, including breaks of 576 and 519; Newman is 15,692, with breaks of 503 and 524 unfinished. DELHI, Feb. 20. The villagers of the Bihar village of Angul almost smothered with garlands Mr Wright Neville, Superintendent of Police, who shot the well-known and much-feared man-eating tiger, which had killed many men and women, and established a reign of terror. When the huge beast was opened a complete human foot was found inside, while the tiger was marked by a gash that had been inflicted by the axe of his latest victim.