BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 March 1922, Page 1

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

lUBTRAUAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.

BRITJSH BYF.-ELECTION

LONDON, March 17

The bye-election for Cambridge, vacant through Sir K. Goddes’ resignation, resulted:: — Sir Douglas Newton (Coalition Conservative) 10,897 Dalton (Labour) 6,954 AVer (Free Candidate) 4,259

PRINCE LEAVES INDIA. DELHI, March 17

The Prince of Wales arrived at Karachi this morning. He presented colours to the 126th Baluchistan Infantry. He also unveiled a war

memorial. The Prince embarked in the cruiser Comus in the Kiamari harbour, and thence transferred to the Renown, which has left for Colombo, where she arrives on Tuesday.

AMUNDSEN’S POLAR EXPEDITION. CHRISTIANIA, March 17. Captain Amundsen has sailed for America. He starts on his North Pole expedition from Seattle on June 11th and expects to he away five years. BALLOON BREAKS AWAY. PARIS, March 18.

An observation balloon broke its moorings at Angers Aviation Camp, carrying away three men who were, clinging to the ropes. One man dropi]»ed when ho was a few feet, above the ground, and he escaped uninjured. Another dropped from a height of 90 feet, ajnd succumbed to terrible injuries.

The balloon carried the third away travelling at the rate of 30 miles per hour, and it reached a height of 6000 feet. After several hours the balloon was blown back towards Angers. 'Phe man finally dropped into a tree, while the balloon was descending, and lie was picked up only slightly braised.

SHIPBUILDING WAGES. LONDON, March 17

The shipbuilding negotiations have definitely broken down, and the conference delegates who have boon sitting with the Ministry for several days have dispersed and returned home. In the provinces the men’s leaders rejected the proposal for a ballot upon the employers’ offer to reduce wages 10s weekly, and a new and further 6s on March 29th, leaving the reaining 10s in abeyance.

The Amalgamated Engineering Union s distributing £200,000 as lock-out

TIPTON FACTORY EXPLOSION LONDON, March 18.

A sensational development out of the Tipton factory explosion is reported. Knowles, the husband of the factory owner, and Chadwick, the manager, are being charged with manslaughter. The total number of deaths lias increased to eighteen.

INTERESTIN G BY E-ELECTION LONDON, March 17

There is a most interesting by-elec-tion pending. The constituency of Chertsey is vacant through the death of Mr Donald MpMaster, Coalition Unionist. The candidates are Sir Phillip Richardson, Conservative and Unionist, who led the British rifleman to Australia and General Gough, Wee Free. The latter’s campaign consists principally of a defence of the Fifth Army owing to charges that he is seeking to enter Parliament chiefly through a personal grudge against the Government, which recalled him from the Western front. A PEER’S STATEMENT.

LONDON, MarcK 18

Lord Derby, addressing the Junior Carlton Club, said be had declined the offer of the secretaryship for India, because he believed that he could be of more service to his party, and to the country outside the Government than inside. He bad not the slightest doubt that he would be able to support the programme which Mr Chamberlain promised to put before the Conservatives prior to the next election. He intended be said, to give his unswerving loyalty and unstinted energy to the support of the Conservative leaders whether inside or outside the Cabinet. Mr Stanley Baldwin urged the Conservatives to hold together so when the election came, they could fling the whole weight of their influence into the same scale.

BUILDERS’ WAGE CUT.

LONDON, March 18,

A provisional settlement has been reached in the building industry dispute, under which the unions agree to a reduction of 2d an hour as from April, and will submit to a ballot of their members the employers demand for a. further reduction of 2d per hour beginning in June.

CONDITIONS FOR LIBERAL RE-UNTON. LONDON, March 17. Lord Gladstone in a letter to the press on the re-union of the liberal Party states that the position of tinindependent Liberals is: “We are. a party in being, founded on definite principles, which condemns absolutely the policy of the Coalition Government since 1918, and that we offer an alternative Government to the country. The re-union involves either an acceptance by Lloyd George and his Cabinet colleagues of a condemnation of their own policy, or a surrender by the Independent Liberals of their whole position. “We have no intention of surrendering that position. The other alternative reirts with Mr Uoyd George.”

NOT GUILTY. BERLIN, March 16 Joseph Schmal was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1895 for murdering a woman. Throughout his imprisonment, however, he protested his innocence. Schmal addressed hundreds of appeals to the authorities as an innocent man. Yesterday the real murderer when on his death-bed, confessed his guilt. Sclmial.was immediately informed of the confession, but was then seized with a heart attack, and he died owing to shock. Schmal’s last words were a prayer, uttered in the prison hospital as follows: “Dear Lcyd—For twenty-six) years, though innocent, I have suffered the hell of penal servitude. Thou wilt reward me in the Kingdom Eternal!”

BYE-ELECTION. (Received This Day at. 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 17. Inverness bye-election resulted: Sir Murdoch MacDonald (Coalition Unionist) 8,340. Livingstone (Independent Liberal) 8,024.

EGYPTIAN RIOTERS, vßeceived This Day at 8 a.m.) CAIRO Mjarch 17.

While the King was reviewing troops extremists stoned the Guards outside the walls of the palace and pulled down the Egyptian flags from the Government Buildings.

OARPENTIER AS CRITIC. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 18. Carpentier invited to discuss a Bec-kett-Cook match, writes—Cook is not a great boxer. He has much to learn, but he ig like Iron and has immense courage. \ r ou have to hit him as if you would kill him, before be goes down and be counted out. Beckett will find Cook no punishing boxer, bn* on* with a heart that is hard t® break. I do not think mere fistic skill will decide the issue. It will be a battle of temperaments. Beckett when he enters the ring gives himself up to that kind of self analysis which breeds dopbt one self. If Beckett is not concerned with what people are saying and thinking about him, he should beat the Australian. If Beckett grows tired of hitting Cook and begins to wonder why the Australian does not go down, he will lose.

WHEAT SALES .Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 18 The wheat cargoes market is very firm. Sellers require a shilling advance on most descriptions. Austin wheat afloat 57s 6d per quarter; pjwccls March 58s per quarter. JAPANESE UNREST. TOKYO, March 18. An unindentified man carrying a bomb, attempted to enter the Imperial Palace grounds, but was baited by ■the guard. While endeavouring tti throw a bomb a ( t the guard, the man blew himself to pieces.