NEWS BY CABLE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3655, 1 April 1924, Page 44

NEWS BY CABLE.

THE PRINCE OF WALES. The Prince of Wales is making satisfactory progress, but he is remaining indoms owing to the cold winds, and he cancelled his visit to the Grand National meeting at Liverpool. SON KILLS FATHER. At the inquest on George Cooper, of Bristol a verdict of “Wilful murder” against George William Cooper was returned. A rider was added that the accused was subjected to great, provocation. VOLCANIC ERUPTION. A delayed report from the constabulary states that the inhabitants at Babuyan Island, mostly fishermen, are believed" to have been killed by a volanie eruption on March 1. The island is at the northern extremity of Luxon, and is sparsely inhabited. THE KING OF ITALY. A special train carrying- the King of Italy to Amalfi dashed into a mass of earth, the result of landslides. The train ploughed through the debris- for a long distance before being brought to a standstill without harm, beyond a violent shock. The King continued his journey in a motor car. AUSTRALIAN LOCOMOTIVES. The Federation of British Industries lias written to Mr J. H. Thomas protesting against the Australian Government’s acceptance of an Australian tender for 14 locomotives at a price equivalent to £52,000 more than the lowest British tender. FIRPO AS FILM STAR. Firpo, who recently announced that he would retire from the ring, has cabled to a Los Angeles company if its offer of 210,000d01, which was made while he was in the United States to appear on the screen, was still open he was willing to accept PETER’S PENCE STOLEN ROME, March 28. The German Bishop of Paberbom, Westphalia, when travelling to Rome with

70,000 rentenmarks received for Peter’s pence, entrusted the money, which was contained in a purse, to his secretary for safety. When in Venice, the secretary went to Mass, during which he placed the purse close to the altar. When the service was over it was. found that the purse contained nothing but old newspapers. OBITUARY. DEATH OF GENERAL NIVELLE. PARIS, March 23. The death is announced of General Nivelle. Sir William Mace wen, the well-known Glasgow surgeon, is dead. GENERAL ITEMS. The Hamburg dock strike has been settled. The electricians at AVembley have resumed work. Eight non-unionists cleared out from the Exhibition. The outstanding event at the chess tournament at New York was the defeat of Capablanca by Treti (Czecho-Slovakia). This is the champion’s first defeat in 10 years. , A company called the Allied Newspapers has been formed to take over the Hulton group of newspapers. It is issuing £4,750,000 worth of 8 per cent, cumulative preference shares at par. The King has created a precedent by figuring on the Great Seal of Britain as an admiral standing on the deck of a battleship instead of seated on horseback, as all the Monarchs have done since the Norman Conquest. The Canadian House of Commons voted 1,300,000d0l for the purchase of the Union Club in Trafalgar Square as Canada House. The Pope at a private Consistory announced that Monsignors Hayes and Mundelein, Archbishops at New York and Chicago respectively, had been appointed cardinals. Moischa Natensohn has been arrested at Harrogate on a charge of the theft from an hotel bedroom in September, 1923, of jewellery valued at £40,000, the property of Mr Samuel Pincus, a London jeweller.