GENERAL CABLES

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 99, 24 March 1930, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) RUGBY, March 21. In tho House of Commons yesterday, Mr Ramsay MacDonald was asked for an assurance that the Government would not enter into any engagements involving the sanction of a blockade in the Mediterranean which went in any way beyond the letter of the Covenant of the League of Nations. Mr MacDonald said that such a proposal had been neither contemplated nor discussed. PEKIN, March 21. Renewed bandit activity is reported in the Kwangsi province. The town of Taipingfu has hecu sacked ,and foreign missionaries ill-treated. Kauehow, in the Ksiugsi provrce, s besieged by a strong force of Commun-i.-.s Anxiety is felt for the salcty of ten American priests. DELHI, March 21. Gandhi’s campaigners are nearing the sea coast. When crossing a river they had to wade through water and mud for nearly three miles. Gandhi crossed in a boat. NEW YORK, March 20. The New York Times sent its London correspondent to Oxford, where at the ltadcliffo Observatory he interviewed Professor Jackson, of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, who immediately after the announcement of the discovery of the new planet wrote an article for the London Times commending the Lowell Observatory. VANCOUVER, March 21. Dr. Cook, who was recently released from gaol, has been appointed permanent physical director of the Boys’ Brotherhood Institution at Chicago. He was cheered by 900 boys when he accepted the appointment. He told them that he deiied the world to prove that he did not discover the North Pole. With a view to developing greater trade between Canada and the other Dominions, a greater quantity of Australian and New Zealand apples this year is being imported into British Columbia. A Vancouver firm announces that 800 boxes of Australian Jonathans are due by the Aorangi next week for local distribution. The next boat is bringing nearly 5000 boxes of the New Zealand Delicious variety. It is intended that these will take the place of American winesaps in the British Columbia market. These shipments are the result of a visit by a Vancouver firm’s representative to Australia and New Zealand. Professor Jackson now, however, states that after careful consideration he believes that the Lowell Observatory probably mistook a minor planet, of which large numbers are always seen, for a major body. He predicts doubts upon the failure of the Lowell Observatory to indicate the position of the planet, giving to the world scarcely any details beyon dthe bare announcement.

The New York Times interviewed Professor Shapley, of Harvard University, over the trunk line telephone tonight. Professor Shapley said: “There can bo no doubt that the discovery announced from Lowell Observatory is a fact. We have received confirmatory observations from the Yerkes Observatory. Professor Lowell never claimed that his prediction would be more than an approximation. There has been no haste in the publication of data from the Lowell Observatory on fhe planet. Thai will come later.” NEW YORK, March 21. At Daytona Beach a very bumpy course compelled Mr Kayo Don, the British motorist, to postpone his attempt at a record. He attained a speed of 90 miles an hour in the first run, and was forced to desist when the roughness nearly bounced him out of the cockpit.

APIA, March 20. To-day Mr T. Slipper made an unsuccessful application to the High Court for an order for an injunction restraining the Administrator from carrying into effect his notice of March 3, informing Mr Slipper that his license to practise as a solicitor had been cancelled and that no new license would be granted. Judge Luxford refused the application on the ground that the act of the Administrator was executive and not judicial. Mr Andrews appeared for the Administrator. Mr Slipper was his own solicitor.

PARIS, March 20. Cries of “Death to himl” were raised outside the prison at Douai when a man who murdered two children was guillotined. As the gate was opened to show the prisoner standing pinioned on the platform beside the executioner and his assistants, two women rushed forward shouting imprecations. They were the mothers of the victims.

CAIRO, March 21. There was tremendous excitement at the departure of the delegation, headed by Nahas Pasha, who are going to London to negotiate a treaty. There were successive scenes of enthusiasm. En route to Alexandria the train was twice stopped by people lying across the track, which enabled crowds to climb aboard. Once the train was held up for an hour while a mob, carrying banners, formed a procession along the roofs of the carriages. Before sailing on the steamer Ausonia, Nahas Pasha said that he was goin gto England with full powers to negotiate. He hoped to meet with fcUCC€SS MELBOURNE, March 22. A sensation has been caused in legal circles by the discovery that the regulations under the Federal Bankruptcy Act, which was passed last year, are invalid, because they were not tabled in Parliament. The effect on a large volume of proceedings already taken under the regulations may lead to much trouble. A special bill must be passed to remedy the position. HOBART. March ?2. The j Norwegian whaler Neilson Alonzo and five chasers have arrived from a fivo months’ cruise in the Far South. Seven hundred and thirtyfive whales were captured, yielding 65,000 barrels of oil, valued at £230,Only 37 fish were taken in six weeks’ stay in the Ross Sea. The fleet returned to tho outskirts of the ice pack, where 26 were caught in one day. Only two truo sperm whales were taken during the cruise.