LATE CABLE NEWS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIX, Issue 3102, 25 June 1929, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

GENERAL BOOTmS FUNERAL,

STREETS CROWDED.

HYMN TUNES PLAYED.

(Received 11.30 ajn.) > , ; : > v LONDON, June Through the "densely-lined streets,' from whicS trafiae was.diverted. General- ' Bramweli Booth's funeral" procession,. A mile and a-half'long, marched to Park Cemetery from the; International; Headquarters. The bands .played thtf General's favourite hymn tunes, and. ' white ribbons bedecked the car. Generat: BOoth 's chauffeur, Adjutant Pritchatelr ;\ drove the i funeral car, which had carried General Booth in many campaignsv The shroud was inscribed with white' letters, which read: "In action faithful, in honour clear. *» * Refusing to ride, Mrs. Booth, followed the bier afoot, accompanied by otic* relatives, jlylessrs. Higgins and Mapp> leading the commissioners, following:,. An immense crowd assembled at t%& >. cemetery, where the service was COIL*-;. ■ ducted by Catherine Booth. '

THE SOUTHERN CROSS.

WIRELESS EQUIPMENT. V . ________ ' . . ■ 4 .(Received 11.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Dayy The Southern Cross is taking an emergency transmitting set —weighing? 191bs. Tests have already Tjeen mad> and proved satisfactory, and the sig* nals were heard in New Zealand. . MARVELLOUS MARBLE MONOLITIf TRANSPORTATION WORK. __ , A WONDERFUL FEAT. . ' i' **' (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, June 24. The Manchester Guardian correspondent at Carrara states that the famotur marble monolith, 60ft tall, weighing 38<* tons, that was cut out of the Carraramarble quarry a year ago, wa» launched to-day. A specially-designe<t raft is to be shipped to the mouth of, the Tiber to await the full tide. lathe autumn it will be erected in the new forum dedicated to DucO, called Colonna Mussolina. It has taken a year to bring this great column 30 niile* from the quarry. Sometimes it-wa*' launched on swift mountain torrent*, sometimes drawn by hundreds of oxen along the steep mountain road, il encased in a wooden structure propeJWf , on large lpga of wood placed wrfw neath. This engineering feat has onjf been equalled by the Egyptians wHfc Cleopatra's Needle, on the Thaajewi B»bankment. It is the largest and »0»i beautiful ever quarried in, Italy, **l is.'-& a s>ale grey. hue. '- -