British and Foreign.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 January 1914, Page 4

British and Foreign.

r KI.EUTKIC TELEGRAPH, COPVIUCHT. ] [I'KB. I'ItESS ASSOCIATION.] COAL POUTEKS" STIMKE. London, Jan. 20. Several firms arc following the Cornwall Company's example by conceding the coal porters demand for an extra penny a 1011. I'nion officials are refusing lo give permits for coal for I lie London County Council's feeding centres and the Alexandra Trust, which serves very poor people. The Helgrave Hospital lor children lias been obliged .to (dose the out-patients' department. Other hospitals announce that they are without coal. The students at the Middlesex Hospital, wearing football clothes, moved one hundred tons of coal, working in shifts, of rive hours throughout the night. The strikers at Sumersiown dragged coal from the carts in th; streets, hundreds of boys assisting. They afterwards picked I it up and took the coal to their J own homes. VALID. The Edinburgh Court of Sessions has declared Miss Kippen's will valid, bequeathing half of a ten thousand pounds' estate to Mr J. ttedmnnd and Mr \Y. liedniond and half to Mr Keir llardie for the Labour Party. The Court refused to decide whether the money should be giv- j en to the 'Nationalists. The j judge said it seemed to lie given | to the Messrs Redmonds person- ' ally. , CONDEMNED. ! The 'Newspaper Sporting Advertisements Control Association has eond.emned in lis present form ; the Be.th'iio' Inducements Hill, ! which Mr'H. 11. Newton. M.P.. j is introducing. Lord Lonsdale wrote supporting the suppression of tipsters and bookmakers circulars. He did no! fjivour slopping all bookmakers a(lverfiseni'"i(s in newspapers. 1