LATE CABLE NEWS

Waikato Independent, Volume XXX, Issue 2425, 9 December 1930, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS

OUR PRIME MINISTER. LAST DAY AT HOME. FINAL ENGAGEMENT^. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. LONDON, Dee. 5. Hon. G. W. Forbes, on his final day/ paid a farewell call on Mr Ramsay MacDonald, placed a wreath on the Westminster Abbey Tablet to the Empire’s million dead and interviewed Sir Ernest Harvey, deputy-governor of Bank of England. Mr Forbes, in a final statement, paid a tribute to the hospitality - shown, throughout Britain and Ireland. He said that though the Imperial Conference decisions had not gone a? far as he had hoped, some important, decisions were reached and many undecided questions were considered. The ' personal contacts with public and commercial leaders were most valuable. New Zealand sold the bulk of her products to Britain, and as a matter of sentiment gave preference through the customs and desired the fullest measureof preference. He highly appreciated the goodwill New Zealand and her products enjoyed in Britain. NEW ZEALAND AUTHORNOVEL BY MISS NELLIE SCANLON _____ ! ACCEPTED BY JAREOLDS. Australian Press Assn—United Service (Received 9.52 a.m.) \ LONDON, Dee. 8. Publishers of Jarrolds have accepted a novel by Miss, Nellie Scanlon, the well-known New Zealand journalist, with the option of another. i SOVIET DEATH SENTENCE. COMMUTED BY EXECUTIVE. Australian Press Assn —United Servlet (Received.il a.m.) MOSCOW, Dec. S'. The Soviet Central Executive hascommuted the death sentences on Bamzin, Larieheo, Charnovsky, KaliLkoft and Fedotov to ten years’ imprisonment, and reduced other sentence* to - , j, eight years. TERRIBLE EXPLOSION. . SALVAGE - SHIP BLOWN 'HR*:> HEAVY LOS,S OF LIFE, Australian Press Assn —United SfiOTfeW” (Received 11 a.m.) ■ PARIS, Dee. &■ , 'The famous Italian salvage ship Artiglio, used to recover treasure from Egypt, has been blown up. I Fourteen were kiled and seven tfcnfc to hospital. Fishermen picked up the survivors. The explosion occurred -when wreckage in the channel off Guibcrftnt— The vessel sank immediately. Two divers, working at the tlimV were cut off and drowned. Their foodie* were recovered later. , The explosion was due igni--tion'of several hundred tons of explosive on the freighter France, on the divers were working. The Artiglio was two hundred yards*from the freighter, but the explosion, was so violent that she w r as blown pieces. SIR ISAAC ISAACS. SUGGESTED PEERAGE. OPPOSITION BY LABOURITES. V Australian and N.Z. Press (Received 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dee. ?. Tho Sunday News says it under--stands that there i,s a strong possifoilitY of Sir Isaac Isaacs, Governor-General of Australia, being raised to the pee*-* age. SYDNEY, Dec. & The aeting-Prime Minister, Mr J. Fenton, says the Federal Governmentlias no intention of recommending; thatSir Isaac Isaacs be raised to the peerage. The Labour Party is definitely opposed to such a thing.