GENERAL CABLES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 6, 6 December 1930, Page 10

GENERAL CABLES

While a weatherboard cottage at Coolangatta, New South "Wales, was burning, a woman named Mrs Sooley, with her clothes blazing, rushed to a neighbour’s house, blie was a veritable uuman torch, every vestige of her apparel being burned. Mrs Sooley died in a few minutes. L. Luxton, of Melbourne, is included in the eleven Cambridge oarsmen asked to assemble at New lear to practise tor the boat race. Canada mined 39,861,000 dollars worth of gold in 1929, the largest amount in its history, and surpassed only by the productions of South Africa and the United States.

Detectives, who in all States have covered thousands of miles searching tor the murderer of Mena Griffiths, aged twelve, at Bentleigh, near Melbourne, yesterday arrested in Sydney Robert McMahon, aged 36, a labourer, on a provisional warrant from Victoria. McMahon was charged with the murder of the girl, who was outraged before death. it was expected that Mr Frederick Hill,. the aviator, who crashed at Atamboea on the last stage of a flight from England to Australia, woula. reach Darwin last night. _ Mr Hill s machine has been reconditioned. Judge Anderson, of Jacksonville, Florida, expresses the opinion after investigation that a man who died on Saturday in a hospital at New \ork was Vincent P. Taylor, an Australian aviator who went to the United States in 1920. His papers also showed that lie was a member of the R-oyal Flying Corps during the World War. The police said lie went to the station several days ago workless, hungry, and ill, and on arrival collapsed. A mass meeting at Sydney of fifteen hundred strikers belonging to the Meat Employees’ Union decided t-o resume work on Tuesday in accordance with the Industrial Commission’s direction.

At the Albert Hall, London, in a bout of 12 rounds, Jack Hood drew with Dave Shade. The latest billiards results are as follow Davis, 21,237 (including breaks of 388, 290. 608 and 224); Lindrum, 20,348 (including breaks of 1036, 262, 460 and 206). Snooker: Davis 1581, Lindrum 823. Newman, 30,236 (including breaks of 1299, full, 414 and 415); McConachy, 17,678 (including breaks of 205, 267, 305 and 541). Snooker: Newman 1405, McConachy 1239.

The conference of primary producing, banking, mercantile, and insurance interests which met in Sydney made an appeal for the man on the land. The chairman, Mr James Kidd, said that the country people were bleeding to death. It was stated that the debts of wheat farmers to business firms, storekeepers, and the Rural Industries Board- amounted to £10,500,000. A large proportion of graziers were in a similar plight. The conference urged that measures be taken to reduce the costs of production and to form a State and Federal Council. Asthma sufferers living near a zinc factory at Liege were asphyxiated on Thursday night. It is believed that fog interfered with the working of the volatiliser, causing the fumes to spread over the district. The Sydney Communist hunger strikers are now in a bad way. Three are in hospital. One man is very weak. Gaol medical advices, however, are that forced feeding is not necessary yet. The men concerned were imprisoned for maliciously damaging a cottage at Clovelly ; In the House of Commons, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister’s amendment to continue the Dyestuffs Act until 1936 was defeated by 255 vqtes to 225. Six Liberals, including Sir John Simon, voted against the Government. Several of the Left Wing Labour members did not vote.

Mr W. L. Everard (Unionist) inquired in the British House of Commons whether, in tlie interests of economy, and in order to set an example to the country, the Government should appoint a Select Committee to consider a 12J per cent reduction in members’ salaries. Air AlcDonald replied that the salaries had been fixed in 1911, and could not now be regarded as more than adequate.