BRITISH FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1921, Page 3

BRITISH FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLI ASSOCIATION. IN THE HIMALAYAS. (Received This Day.at 0.40 n.m.) DELHI, Oct, 20. The northern range of the Central Himalayas is undergoing, in a geological sense, rapid dissolution. According to the members of the Everest expedition, interviewed at Darjeeling, the Aru river is not a raging torrent hut a sluggish stream, winding painfully through obstructions of sand and debris. The inhabitants say the river sometimes resembles liipiid mud. Nature is making a tremendous onslaught on the northern range. Nor only have landslips scarred the mountain sides, but the crowns and tops ol the mountains are wearing away, few iceelad rocky peaks stand out. they arc no longer a mighty smiwclad range as they once existed. Raeburn says what vc saw were not mountains, but shapeless enormous mounds. The great Himalaya Range containing Everest. Kniichanjungn and Makula. presenting tin unbroken chain of snowclad mountains gains by contrast.

LABOR CONFERENCE. (Received This Day at 0.40 a.in.) LONDON, Oet. 3(1 Bishop Erodshain will he the preacher at a special service in the English Church at Geneva in connection with the Labour Conference. THE GENEVA CONFERENCE. LONDON, Oct. 3d. The “Observer's” Geneva correspondent reports supporters of the French objection to the agricultural cigld-hour dav, included the Australian delegates anil employers and Government’s delegates from Britain, Canada and Sout-n Africa. The Conference after an exciting debate, defeated hv ninety votes to seventeen, Eranee’s attempt to exclude agricultural labour from the scope of the Washington unemployment resolution. Italian and British delegates intimated that the movement aimed at securing rediscussioti of agricultural labourers hours til work.

RUSSIAN PROTEST TO BRITAIN (Received This Day *t 12.24 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, Oct, 30. ! The “I’nlitiken’s” Riga corrospotidont states Teliit. hcrin sent a note to Britain protesting against English wetships at Vladivostock, landing olhoers and men belonging to Wrange s old army, and stating he regarded the action as hostile to Russia and the 1 .it , Eastern Republic. - : AN AIRMEN’S SIGNAL. I Received This Day at 12.2-> p.m.) PARTS. Oct. 39. A billion caujlle power Government lighthouse I browing light two hundred miles. Is being erected on the summit, of Mount Africa, outside Dijon, fifteen hundred feet ItigU to guide airmen on ]|ie Italian- All iean route.