GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 159, 7 June 1939, Page 10

GENERAL CABLES.

Received June 7. 11.20 a.m. LONDON. June 6. 'l’lie price of gold is quoted at £i Ss 4R! an ounce. The New York Stock Exchange turnover to-day was 600,000 shares. 'l’lie liner Llimdaff Castle, berthed at the London docks, to-day was extensively damaged by fire. Three were killed when a Royal Air Force Ivomber crashed into the sea at Kinshardy. BORDEAUX. June 6. The flying-boat Ville de Saint Pierre left here to-day for Koynes, en route to America, on an experimental North Atlantic flight. WARSAW, June 6. The fire at the Central Station has suspended traffic except for a few suburban services;- One fireman was killed, four injured, and many passengers wore hurt as the result of a wall falling. Parliament has unanimously voted the President (-AT. Moscicki) power to declare martial law if he considers it necessary in the safety of Poland. (Independent Cable Service). LONDON. June 6. Three are dead, two injured and two missing in a. nit accident in the Astley Green colliery in Lancashire todav. (British Official AVireless.) RUG BA’. June 6. Mr J. P. Kennedy (United States Ambassador in London) and Lord Chatfield (Minister for the Co-ordina-tion of Defence) were among recipients of honorary degrees at Cambridge to-day at a congregation at which the Chancellor of the University, Earl Baldwin, presided. Marsha! Gamolin (French General-in-Chief. has arrived in ICngand on a lour days’ visit.