BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 July 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

TIBET TROUBLES. (Recoived this clay at 12.25 p.m.) DELHI, July -24

Tibet is suffering from acute economic distress, due to unfavourable exchange, high cost of living and high cattle mortality. The middle-class aie reduced to a state of poverty. The Government is equally 'afflicted, the expenditure exceeding the income. They have imposed heavy fresh taxation on all adults, with a poll tax of two tankas, worth six annas, and on animal owners one tanka, for every animal possessed. Sheep owners ''’ill pay a heavy tax in a lump sum for flocks The Postmaster General of Bengal is visiting Tibet to supervise the erection of telegraph lines from Gyan s to T.hassa. It is a. strange innovation in this little known country, but will probably have far reaching consequences.

SUN YAT SEN DEFEATED. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) CANTON, July 24. A fight around Shruchow, forty miles north of Canton, resulted in the defeat of Sun Yat Sen’s forces by C hungming, the former lefiring twenty miles north.

RABBIT BILL. (Received this day at 1. ) P ’■"•) LONDON. July 24. Owing to the rapid increase in the number of rabbits in various parts of the country, a Rabbit Bill, enabling royal authorities in certain cases to undertake their destruction, was road a first time in the Commons.

DIVORCE CASES. (Received this day at 1 •> :> «’> ) LONDON, July 24. During the past week Judges Buckmaster, Salter and Harridge made a record clearing off in arrears of five bunded undefended divorce eases Justice Buekmaster dealt with -J- " a week, touching an average of th.ee minutes :pjer suit. The other D o Judges cleared lists almost as qo'okly, Justice Salter to-day dealing with fifteen before lunch.

PETROLEUM RIGHTS. ATHENS, July 24. The Government has granted the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, represented by the New Zealander Mr George .Taron, ; petroleum tights throughout Macedonia..

ARMIRAT/S FUNERAL. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) MANILLA. July 24. Admiral Dumnresq was buried with full military honours at Sun 1 echo Macami Cemetery, near Manilla. A - miral Barber and Major-General Bundy were among the pall hearers.