GENERAL CABLES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19050, 1 July 1924, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

Lord Loughborough has filed a petition in bankruptcy. The liabilities are set down at £18,120, and assets nil. Lord Loughborough gave evidence that his bankruptcy was due to extravagance in 1916, which he was unable to justify. His father then paid debts ot £ll,OOO, and in 1921 paid a further £9000." His present income was £1 per day. His wife possessed a separate income of £2OOO, and she kept up the household. The British Air Force pageant took place in fine weather, and attracted 100,000 to Hendon to see the evolutions of 200 of the latest military aeroplanes, ranging from twenty to five hundred horsepower, including air hospital machines. The various events were designed to demonstrate the actual work of the air force, but spectacular features were included. It was the first time French air force men assisted in the display. Gabriel Rabat, a native of Damascus, has been sentenced to nine years at Vienna for forging half a million English pound notes. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Express says the Roumanian Government intend to confiscate oil properties worth forty million sterling in order tp compel foreign owners to yield sixty per cent, of their holdings to Roumanian capitalists. Britain, France, and America protested, but Mr. Brataino is determined to force the decree through Parliament. When the Ling Nam, which recently sailed for Sydney with some 500 Chinese passengers reached Sydney her bunkers were almost empty. It was necessary to obtain fresh supplies in order to get sufficient steam to raise the anchors. The high head winds and strong westerly gales which were experienced prolonged tne trip.