GENERAL CABLES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 9 April 1924, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and A. a. L,aDle Association.)

LONDON, April 7 Fedora Steel, aged 32, .daughter of a Ramsgate clergyman, has been released: on bond for two years for stealing four bicycles from church porches, also an offertory box. The eviuencc showed she was- assoeiatetd with an ex-convict. Ttt'o French steamers collided in a fog off Brighton. The Saint Anne was sunk. All the crew were picked np by the other steajner, the Blois. The international conference on Christian Politics, Economics, and Citizenship, which has been dubbed the “Uopec,” opened at Birmingham. Messages from the King, the Premier, and Mr Baldwin were rend expressing sympathy with the objects ot the couldcnee* Several hundred delegates are present at the conference, which is piobably unpreedented in scope ar.tl purpose. Tlie preparations have been going on for three years on a scale which mav be judged by the fact that the reports on two subjects for consideration on the first day alone totalled about 120,000 words. At the request of soldiers the Inipena League interviewed Spahlingeiy who Undertook to arrangeefor demonstrations iu Queensland, of bis treatment ot-tubercu-losis. He did not stipulate for any pa>-

The London County Council decided to utilise in the'schools St. CJar Grom dona’s book The Romantic Story of Australia,” published under the Empire JHstorv -handbook • series. It contains a foreward by Mr Znice in which he says : "The. Commonwealth needs more, people. We do not desire a polyglot nation. We want millions of virile British women and men who have ihe will an i capacity for work.” ■ * LONDON, April 8 Mr Donne, formerly New Zealand offteial secretary in London, has been appointed'honorary executive commissioner in Britain to the Internationa amt South.-Seas exhibition, to be held at. Dunedin in 1925-26. . The Government hospitality qmco lias written to Mr Wilson requesting samples of Australian wines wpli a Dew to adding them to the.lists of wines served, at all Government functions At Northern Union football, Warrington beat Himslett 16 to 4. The Daily Chronicle's Pans correspondent states that after feigning m sanity and dumbness for twelve months Castellent, accused of robbery with violence, broke silence when sentenced at Rhone Assizes to, 15 years. Castell.n declared that he had been pretending insanity hoping to escape punishment, As he had not succeeded lie wished to admit that he was not mad. Three of his companions were the real culpii.fi, and he and another accused were inno-

C? Pile- Daily Express understands that the 15-year-old Earl Ponlett, now at, Eton, is"'the centre of a dispute between his mother and trustees. r lhe latter are endeavouring to deprive the mother of the guardianship of the young peer and his sister. The - battle is likely to be fought- hilt ,in • the Chancery Court. Though details have not. been made pobltc, the young Earl's mother was appearing in an .Havana gaiety \ theatre when she married the last Earl in 1903. The latter died on active service in 1913. NEW YORK, April 8

Lieut. Brown.- who absconded with 120,009 dollars of naval funds, was captured bv the pblice, who found him, apparently ,deranged, „ lying in a park roadway!' A physician declared that he was feigning insanity. The police found 1200 dollars in his clothing, and placed him under observation because he was acting violently and irrationally. " OTTAWA, Anil 7

Mr Charles Stewart, Minister of ihe Interior; stated in the Commons that Canada- does not intend to set up any claim in Connection with Wrangel Island. .