BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N . 7.. CABLE ASSOCIATION. BROADCASTING WIRELESS. (Received this day at 11.30 u.m.J CAPETOWN, July 12. The Postmaster General ■ announces that licenses will be granted for the establishment of broadcasting wireless telephone services in various parts of the Union. Licenses will also he necessary for receiving apparatus. Broadcasting stations will not lie permitted to handle advertising or commercial matter. Transmitting stations will be asisgned a fixed wave length.

TRAIN COLLISION. MADRID. July 12. In a train collision forty wore killed nnd one hundred wounded. A -MINKS EXPLOSION. BERLIN, July 12. It is reported that fifty men were killed by an explosion in the mines magazine and Cuxhaven railway was damaged. SPANISH RAILWAY DISASTER. MADRID, July 12. Trains were wrecked in a collision in a station at Paredes de Na'va. Twenty arc known to have l>een killed and fifty injured. SINKING FAST. MANILA, July 12. Admiral Dumaresq is not expected to live twenty-four hours. The doctors have given up hope. Only Ids strong constitution has kept him alive so long. HELD IN CUSTODY. VANCOUVER, July 12. Mcßride, wanted in Australia on fraudulent stock charges, is still held in custody at New Orleans. His wife was released. The United Commission says a mishap to the papers at the British Embassy is responsible for the delay in extradition. BRITISH SHTPPJNO. * (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, July 11. Mr Flannery asked Government to legislate to prevent ships sailing under the British flag, unless officered and manned by Britishers, in view of the number of such vessels owned and manned by foreigners and insured by British underwriters, being recently lost in circumstances suggesting international scuttling and stranding. Mr Baldwin said lie had read reports of such cases but an insistence on a aomplete British manning would drive vessels from the British register and thus would not be of national advantage.

STEVENSON’S MANUSCRIPT. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON. July 11. A collection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s letters and manuscripts of the juvenile play Monmarth has been sold at Christie’s for £782 sterling, of which the p*av fetched £255. All were purchased on behalf of an American collector, with the exception of one letter. JAP DIRIGIBLE BURNT. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) TOKTO. July 11. Following a gas explosion. Japan’s only dirigible was totally destroyed by (ire inside the shed. It was recently purchased from England at a high price. SOVIET SENTENCES. . HELSINGFORS, July 12. PetrograJ Soviet resolved not to early out the death sentence of the clergy hut the sentences on social revolutionaries will remain unchanged,