OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18961, 7 January 1930, Page 6

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) New Aircraft Carrier. RUGBY, January 5. The British Navy will have its full complement of nine aircraft carriers in service when H.M.S. Glorious is commissioned at Devonport on Tuesday. H.M.S. Glorious was one of the big cruisers built during the war, and by being converted into an airship carrier she is joining her sister ship, H.M.S. Furious and H.M.S. Courageous which have been adapted to fulfil the same capacity. H.M.S. Glorious was paid off in 1924, and has been adapted for her present purpose in Devonport. After her trials, she will join the Mediterranean Fleet, replacing H.M.S. Courageous, which has been transferred to the Atlantic Fleet to relieve H.M.S. Furious, which is destined for the China Station. H.M.S. Glorious displaces 18,900 tons and has 90,000 horse-power engines. Racing Tangle. LONDON, January 6. The National Hunt Committee will be the final arbiters in the case of Miss Sanday, who mounted a horse that had lost its jockey during a race. Otherwise the problem might have gone to the House of Lords. Any man duly qualified under the conditions of the actual race, and able to make the proper weight is entitled to replace a disabled jockey. It is a man-made rule and does not specifically debar a woman. It says any person may remount, “provided he,” etc., never giving a thought to “she." Paisley Disaster. LONDON, January 5. Sorrowing parents buried the last twelve victims of the cinema disaster at Paisley. The majority were interred in an avenue at the entrance of Hawkhead Cemetery. In spite of rain there was a pilgrimage all day long of 30,000 people to the graves, which were deeply covered with flowers. The relief fund has now reached £4OOO. Electric Railway. RUGBY, January 4. A new link of the Southern Railways’ electrified section in suburban London will be opened to-morrow when the Wimbledon-Sutton line comes into use. Six new stations will be served by five and a quarter miles of railway, which have cost more than £1,000,000. Federal Arbitration. SYDNEY, January 6. Mr J. Beasley, Minister of Industries, has announced that a referendum ■will be taken this year in Australia on the question of amending the Constitution with regard to the Arbitration Court. Australian Jockeys for Europe. SYDNEY, January 6. Two of Australia’s leading jockeys, J. Munro and W. Scanlon, have sailed for Europe. Munro will ride in Germany, and Scanlon in France. Golf. NEW YORK, January 6. The Longbeach open golf championship has concluded. Joe Kirkwood and Dutra tied for first place with 216 foi 54 holes. Extensive Forgeries Alleged. LONDON, January 6. The Berlin correspondent of the “Daily News" says that the most sensational political trial since the war opened in Berlin to-day. Those implicated allegedly forged Russian tchervonetz notes, the equivalent of £l, with the object of ruining Soviet currency. It was said that international petroleum magnates, who were fighting the Soviet for possession of the Baku oilfields, financed a counter-revolutionary movement in Georgia, to which leading Bavarian politicians, it was believed, had contributed. Neither the industrialists nor the politicians were aware of the extensive forgeries that were simultaneously carried out in Munich, in order to add to the Georgian funds. The Georgian patriot Karumiaze is the chief accused.