GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 7, 8 December 1930, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

On the eve of St. Nicholas Day, which is celebrated like Christmas in parts of Belgium, Madame Thery, living with her uncle, put to bed five children whose ages ranged from seven months to six years. She lit a gas heater in order to warm the room and returned later to till their Christmas stockings. She found the heater extinguished and the room filled with gas. All the children were suffocated. She was admitted to a hospital in a distraught condition after vain efforts to revive them.

In the English Association Cup first round replays Luton beat Orient by four goals to two; Newport beat Dulfour to one; Wellington beat Wombwell, three to nil. Peterborough protested unsuccessfully against Aidershot after Saturday’s match. Aidershot enters the second round. Dudley Glass, (of Melbourne, has written the music for a large-scale new production of /‘The Toymaker of Nuremberg,” which is being produced at the Ivingsway Theatre, London, on December 20. It is a musical version of Austin Strong’s play shown at the Playhouse Theatre in 1919. Frederick Ranalow will take the chief part of the' Toymaker. Adrian Ross wrote the lyrics and George Sheringham, who was associated, with Gilbert and Sullivan productions, has designed the scenery. At Sydney on Saturday evening, Roy Burns, of Newcastle (9.9), who has recently beaten Heeney, Roberts and Milcolm, forced the fight against Allan Edgecock (9.9), of Sydney, and gained the decision in the sixth round after a willing mill, in which the loser was punished severely but stood up gamely to the task. . At Newcastle, Billy Thomas, of Wales (11.1), defeated Jimmy Pearce, of Newcastle (11.5) on points in fifteen rounds. Mrs Hayward and Miss Gomersal, missionaries, interviewed at Pekin, atfer a long and adventurous journey from Lanchow, said they were accompanied by merchants and escorted by Mongols. Brigands made a surprise attack, when the women were dragged from the party with the intention of holding them for ransom, but the Mongols counter-attacked and rescued them. The party retreated to the mountains, where they spent eight freezing days. Although the provincial authorities had 4000 troops, nothing was done to effect a rescue until the diplomatic party arrived. Gifford Cochrane, an internationally known turf man and one of the wealthiest Americans, was found by a milkman dead outside his lavish quarters in Madison Avenue, New; York, Death w r as due to acute alcoholism following a party which had been attended by two women and another man. Cochrane reached the peak of his racing career five years ago. Three hundred Chinese were drowned in the Yangtse near Hankow when the native steamer Sientam, voyaging to Changsha, foundered. The passengers became panio-stricken on the overloaded vessel, which capsized. The German Reichstag _ defeated by 293 votes to 253 the Nationalist-Com-munist motion to revoke the. bills for enforcing the Government’s financial schemes, which even surprised the Government. A Nationalist motion of confidence was decided to be inadmissable for tactical reasons, after which a Nationul-Communist no-confidence motion was rejected by 291 votes to 256. Cabinet will thus be able to proceed with emergency legislation and financial reforms.

Fritz Wienthal, the miner who was entombed at Cologne by a fall of coal in the Castrophan Zel mine, in Germany, has been rescued, perfectly well after 183 hours’ entombment. Rescuers worked day and night driving a gallery seven feet beneath the blocked gallery, then upwards, thus obviating the danger of a fresh fall crushing the imprisoned man.