BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 January 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AtiSftlALlAN AND ft.E. CAliLfc ASSOCIATION

SftIALIAN AND N.Z. CADIE ASSCJOIAtItIN WOMAN’S SUICIDE; j LONDON, January 23. j Ah inquest was held hero over

WOMAN’S SUICIDE.

the death of Mrs Irene. Welsh; a. wid- , ow who committed suicide by jumping from the window of a Kensington boarding-house. I It was stated in evidence that her ; first husband was a New Zealand ’soldier, who was killed in the war. j Mrs Welsh had a capital of three thousand pounds, but ishe spent or lost it all, mainly in fraudulent investments. On one occasion she paid 50 guineas in consideration for a promise : that she could understudy Gladys Coo- j per. The New Zealand Government generously gave her a pension for two years after her 'first husband’s death. 1 i PENSIONS FOR KARL AND I ZITA. • , | (Received This Day at 9.5 a.m.)

PARIS; Jan 26.

The Ambassadors’ Conference have fixed Karl’s and Zita’s pensions. The Echo de Paris says a total of six million francs annually will b e paid by Hungary, Italy, Rounuuua, Jugoslavia and Czecho-Stova Ida.

THE LITTLE, ENTENTE; 'Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) PARIS, Jan 26. The “Matin’s” Belgrade correspondent states, that at a. recent meeting between the Kings of Serbia and Roumania and Prince George of Greece, the Kings suggested to George that Con- • stantine should abdicate in George’s favour. Greece coukl then enter the Little Entente and be included in the military convention. George is believed to have accepted the mission and put the suggestion before Constantine. A BIG ESTATE. LONDON, Jan 26. Lord Mountstephen left a million and a half. H© bequeathed ten thousand to Barnado’s homes, two thousand to Victoria Hospital, Merit real, and lifter provision for his - wife find servants aiid executors, tile residue amburiting to ov£r half a million goes to King Edward’s Hospital

ELECTION OF A POPE. (Received This Day at 8 80 a.m.) ROME, Jan. 26. The main issue at the election of the new Pope will be the Roman question. Whoever is selected will be expected to cither re-enter official relations with the Government or break off the semiofficial relations now existing. There is considerable diversity ol opinion among the Cardinals, and it is improbable that a foreigner will be chosen. THE UNEMPLOYED UEUTKP.’S TELEGRAMS (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 16. A quarter of a million fewer people registered as wholly unemployed on the 17th. January than six months ago, hut it presented a total of nearly two million. There are now 124 thousand employed, on Government and municipal schemes emergency work.

WIRELESS

LONDON, Jan 26

The Wireless Telegraphy Commission appointed by the Government to decide on the most suitable plan for. ail Imperial wireless chain, having regard to competition with the existing telegraph services, and also to recommend station sites, reports the Marconi Company is in a. posiotion to supply full size tbermonio equipment for an Imperial chain of stations, and that Marconi’s station in Oarnavon had succeeded in communicating' with Australia direct at ceitain hours of the day. A chain of stations in England, with three to four times the signalling strength of Carnavon would communicate with Australia throughout a longer diurnal period. The Commismonic valve station to be erected in England, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Egypt, India, and arc- stations in East Africa- Singapore, Hongkong. Secondly, it states, two wave lengths could be allocated to each transmitting station. Thirdly, each country, except Canada, could have one receiving centre, which would be equipped for reception from several chain stations simultaneously. The average cost of overseas stations will not exceed £160,000 exclusive of staffs and residential quarters.

DUKE OF YORK. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON. Jan 26. Speaking at the Australia Day luncheon, tho Duke of York hoped that circumstances one day would permit him to visit Australia. QUESTION OF LAND. (Received This Day at 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, Jan 26. A Huddersfield magistrate declined to make an order to pay income tax against two workmen under twenty-one years of age on the ground that they were infants in law. He adjourned the cases to enable the income tax representatives to produce an authority for starting the prosecution. A PAPER CRITIC. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 26. Reviewing the Paddington pamphlet, “The next step,” the Pall Mall Gazette criticising the proposal to endow children by taxing employers, says, “One wonders how much farther Australian agitators will go. Employers seem tc be a convertable term for fostei fathers and mothers. Is Paddingtor aspiring to the month of Lycurgus. Tl< may find his Spartans hut what of .Ills Heiots.”