GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Southland Times, Issue 19393, 6 November 1924, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

NOTES FROM ALL PARTS FINISHED IN THE DARK WEIRD SCENES AT A FOOTBALL MATCH. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, November 4. (Received November 5, 11,0 p.m.) The charity football match at Tottenham Clapton was abandoned because of the darkness and gathering gloom. This prompted a joker to screw up a newspaper and light it as a torch. Hundreds around the arena followed this example, the scene resembling that of the Black Country furnaces. PASSENGERS FOR NEW ZEALAND. LONDON, November 5. The liner Ruahine, which sails for New Zealand on Tuesday next, takes with her 181 passengers while 649 are leaving by the liner Pakeha. A CANADIAN EXHIBIT. LONDON, November 5. Owing to preservatives being mixed with the butter in the Canadian pavilion at Wembley, representing the Prince of Wales mounting a horse, the butter cannot be sold for consumption but will be used for waggon grease. SPOILS TO THE. VICTOR! MOSCOW, November 4. For the purpose of covering the losses caused by the insurrection, the Council of the Bolshevik Executive in Georgia has confiscated the property of the Menshevist Government and Assembly, who participated in the recent insurrection. JAPANESE AFFAIRS. TOKIO, November 3. With a view to checking the increasing tendency for smuggling gold from the country, and coming into line with the Government’s ban on luxuries through the imposition of high duties on luxurious articles, the Government has issued instructions to substitute current market rates for the former fixed rate for the sales of gold bars. GERMAN GENERAL SENTENCED FOR THEFT. PARIS, November 3. A message from Torbach (Alsace) says that the German General von Nathusius, who came to France on'the occasion of the Feast of All Saints to visit the grave of his father-in-law, was arrested by the police in connection with the theft of furniture, and on that charge has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. MOTOR FATALITY IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, November 4. A motor car containing five passengers collided with a motor cycle near Jenolan Caves. Patrick Fitzgerald and Duncan Forbes were killed and three other occupants of the car and the driver and a passenger on the cycle were injured. ARTIFICIAL COMPLEXIONS DISCARDED. LONDON, November 3. Parisians are forsaking cosmetics, bowing to the male preference for unadorned complexions, popularised by seaside and alpine holidays. LIEUTENANT ZANNI’S WORLD FLIGHT. TOKIO, November 3. Zanni, the Argentinian aviator, has been informed that Port Petropavlovsk and Paramushri are ice-bound and the possibility of getting ships is precluded. He is hopeful that he may be able to continue his flight in other directions and is awaiting a decision from home. BIG STEEL TRUST FORMED. PARIS, November 3. The Franco-German steel works, including the Ruhr group, have formed a trust and have invited other countries to join. Swedish firms accepted, but the British refused. THE “CREEP’ AT MOUNT MORGAN. MELBOURNE, November 2. The secretary of the Mount Morgan Company has received advice that the movement in the mine has practically ceased, being confined to the copper body. BRITAIN AND MEXICO. WASHINGTON, October 31.

General Plutarco Calles, President-elect of Mexico, who is visiting here, was received by President Coolidge and Mr C. E. Hughes (Secretary of State). Senor Calles informed pressmen that there was no enmity between Britain and Mexico. What unpleasantness had occurred was due to the dishonesty, falsehood and misrepresentation of one of Britain’s representatives in Mexico. He said this did not refer to Mr H. C. Cummins.