BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 November 1922, Page 1

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATIOI ADMIRAL HALSEY. VOLUNTARY RETT REM ENT. LONDON, Nov. 2. Rear-Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey has retired, at his own request, to facilitate the promotion of younger officers. Rear-Admiral Halsey is fifty years o ' age. He joined the Navy in 1885. IT.' served in the South African war in 1901, and was mentioned in dispatches. He became a captain in 1905, and rear-admiral in 1917. He commanded H.M.S. New Zealand during the Empire cruise of that vessel in 1913, and during the actions at Heligoland Bight and Dogger Bank. He has been Third Sea Lord since 1917, and was knighted in 1918. U.S. FARMERS PROTEST. NEW YORK, Nov. 4. Chicago reports United States farm bureau federation composed of a million and a half farmers, telegraphed to the inter-Stnte Commerce Commission demanding an immediate embargo oil Canadian wheat, claiming they were losing millions of dollars owing to Canadian exporters using the Ameri<tin great lakes ports for shipping products for export. CAPE LABOUR. CAPETOWN, Nov. 3. Mr Tom Mann, interviewed, stated that Mr Cresswell’s proposal to give up Socialism as Labour’s objective would ho likely to result in the disintegration of the South, African Labour forces.

The IxTief is expressed by others that Mr Cresswell’s proposal to drop the Socialistic objective will cause a split. Some Labour leaders already declare that they will light it to the hitter end.

A HOLD UP. LONDON. Nov. 3

The Customs officers on the Dutch frontier have detained Princess Herrin ~ie’s luggage containing her bridal gown and her whole trousseau, owing to the export f. rnr'lities not having been obsei verl NEW ORIENT LINER. LONDON, November 3. The Orient Company has placed ail order with the Yickeis Company for a twenty-thousand ton twin screw turbine oil burner for the Australian trade, to he equipped to the highest standard of comfort mid efficiency. BRITISH ELECTIONS. LONDON, November 4. Sir IT. Craik, D. M. Cowan and Sir George Berry (Conservatives), representing tbe Scottish Universities have been re-elected unopposed. LORD MAYOR’S SHOW. LONDON, November 3. Australia’s chief tableau at the Lord Mayor’s show will bo mounted on a car drawn by six grey horses, each hearing the arms of one state. How the groat spaces of Australia, are awaiting developments will he shown on a large map contrasted with a map of the United Kingdom. New Zealand will introduce Maoris in native costume alongside 20th century products. (TURMAN DEMANDS. PARIS, November 3. Advices from Berlin state that the German (b.ceniinoul ju a leport to the Reparations Commission, will demand a moratorium for five years, and also a foreign loan of 500,000,000 gold marks. FATHER VAUGHAN’S FUNERAL. LONDON, Nov. 3

There was a distinguished attendance at the' funeral of Lather Bernard Yaiighan, S.J., those present- including the Duke of Newcastle, Viscount. Lit/. Alan and Viscount Campdcn, the Spanish Ambassador, and the representative of ex-King Mailed of I’ortugal. WILD WEST ACT. NEW YORK, Nov. I. St Louis reports a startling "Wild West” mail train robbery, which lias resulted in the death of two train rubbers, and the capture of a third. The robbery was the work of a hand who had a score of successful Imld-ups in their record. The robbers stopped a train, stuck up tlie mail clerks, ii the registered mail sucks, detached the locomotive, and then sped away ill it, slowing up at a spot 150 miles fio'i Wittcndipurg, in Missouri, where Dry jumped oil’, and permitted the engine lo i mi uit.l They had an automobile hidden a 1 the spot, hut the authorities, who had got wind of the robbers’ 'plans, hid ii a thicket and then surrounded them in the motor. Two of the robbers pill up a figiil, and were shot. dead. The authorities bid refrained from sending a special guard with the mail train, for fear of frightening the Idits away, hut they decided to take ib chance, and guard the spot where the robbers promised to make their eseap ■ EMI'TRK- EXHIBITION. T.ONDON, November 4.

The Empire Exhibition will devote considerable space to horticulture, with a. view to furnishing a complete record of the development of horticultural industries. Areas will lie reserved for the permanent occupation by hardy tree shrubs, and herbaceous perennials. Summer flowering plants will be displayed in artificial lakes. It is expected the grounds will he ready foi permanent* planting in the spring. Nn charge will he made for sites. Plants must ho suitable to the sunroundings ami must he maintained in good order throughout the exhibition. A large hall of twelve thousand feet floor space will accommodate, fruit, vegetables, and tender plants. Several horticultural societies are being invited to hold exhibitions at Wembley in 1924.