GENERAL CABLES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 11 April 1924, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

LONDON, April 9

A wreath of waratali blossom frozen in a block of ice arriving by the Mooltan will be placed on the Cenotaph on 25th April by Lady Cook on behalf of the Anzac Fellowship of Women. Newspaper cables from Australia allege that it is believed Queensland needs a cash loan of two to three millions by June to continuue public works. Mr Theodore states that he has not seen the report and prefers not to make a statement. Other authorities regret the ! publication of the report because, whether it is true or untrue, it is not calculated to help the conversion, which will not close till 24th April. _ George Westcot and William Price, both 18, confessed at Derby Assizes that reading detective stories combined with love oi excitement led them to commit 21 burglaries at Buxton, in which they i stole £SO in money and £4OO worth of j jewellery. They were bound over, their Sunday school superintendent standing surety. A jockey’s mounted whip used by it. L. Goodman, who rode Running Rein, winner of the Derby in 1844, was auctioned to-day and realised £l3. This recalls a famous turf fraud, Running Rem 'being disqualified, being discovered to be the fonr-ycar-old Maccafaens disguised 'by hair dye. / Prince Henrv, riding Ocean Third, won the Tenth Hussars heavy weight steeplechase

BERLIN, April 9. Ernest Reuter, editor of Vorwaerts, was charged with treason in publishing a letter describing the removal of quantities of rifles and ammunition from Munich buildings during the Hitler revolt.