GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 94, 21 March 1931, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES.

A Melbourne coroner, inquirying into the death of Adeline Wilson, aged 16, who was found strangled in a paddock not far from her home at Ormond, found that she was murdered by some person or persons unknown. The United States Department of Agriculture at Washington has reported a larger world wool clip for 193031.» ffhe production in eighteen countries, excluding Russia and China, is estimated at 2,708,000,000 pounds. The programmes of the British Broadcasting Corporation were the subject of comment in both Houses of Parliament yesterday in London. Lord Ponsonby, for the Government, said that the debate showed there was very little real criticisim of the programmes. The Government would continue the policy of its predecessors. The policy of the corporation would be kept free from Government control. In the British House of Commons, Mr F. W. Pethick-Lawrence, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, said that in view of the proposed legislation to compensate French original subscribers to war loans, he had made representations seeking similar treatment for British holders. , At Miami Beach, Florida, in the open golf championship, first round (18 holes, par 71), Sarazen was first with 68 and Kirkwood fourth with il. Mrs Annie Hearn, who was charged in the Police Court, Launceston, Cornwall, with the murder of her sister Miss Mary Everard, and also of a friend, Mrs Alice Thomas, has been committed for trial. .. The flood water at Ardlethan, m the Riverina district of New South Wales, has receded, leaving behind banks of silt in the homes. The wheat stores > escaped damage. Several attorneys and witnesses who were waiting in a New York Court for the appearance of a wealthy real estate owner to begin proceedings involving his property were startled at the sudden entrance of a man, trembling with excitement, who asked : “Who is the Judge? Cornelius Kahlen won’t be down.- I have just killed him.” The murderer revealed that he had been the victim’s servant for many years. He said that lie killed his employer beoause he believed lie was attempting to go to Germany with his money, leaving his wife destitute. While' contesting a race at Coogee, Sydney, last evening, Jean Cocks, the swimming champion, dislocated her .right shoulder at the turning. Despite the intense pain she continued and won the event. Scientific specimens from the .Discovery, the Mawson expedition steamer, have been shipped from Hobart to London. The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America approved of birth control under certain conditions. Tire reports submitted bv the council’s committee on the subject of marriage and the home was not unanimous.