BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1923, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAlll-C, ASSOCIATION

YICTORTA’S LOAN.

LONDON, Feb. 21

Referring to ihe latest Victorian loan, the “Morning Post” gives prominence to the tact of \ ictoria having five successive surpluses which aggregated £935,000. and which were obtained without increased taxation. Tho ‘ Financial News” says: It is a trustee security with a good yield, which will undoubtedly be promptly subscribed. The “Financial Times says: ine security is, of course, undeniable. The. issue should be well covered.

! BRITISH LABOUR, j LONDON, Feb. 21. I Sir William Berry, in toasting tho health uf Mr Ramsay MacDonald (Leader of the Labour Party) at the Ahlwvch Club’s luncheon to the latter , said that Britain was nearer a Labour I Government now than ever has j been. Some people thought that ! would come in the near future. It so. be hoped Mr Ramsey McDonald would j be I.a hour’s leader. | NOT FOR SALE. KINGSTON (Jamaica) Feb 22 1 Lord Burn bam, in a speech, said: “There is no member ol the British 1 Parliament who believes more entirely in the saving virtues of Anglo-Amc--1 ,-ican friendship than I do. but all this . talk about the sale or barter of the West Indian Islands, as, for instance U.S.A. Senator Reed’s proposal (cabled on Jan sth )is a Parliamentary impertinence. There- are certain subjects that should be tabooed in the governing bodies of English-speaking States and the sale or barter of organised communities of fellow citizens who are I entitled to the same rights and pri- ! vileges of the British Commonwealth, i- one of them. ! CHINA AND JAPAN PEKING, 1-eb. 21 The Chinese Cabinet has informally discussed the twenty-one demands and bits decided to request that Japan shall revise the V.)] i Treaty, this involving the abrogation of the demands for the retrocession of Dalny and Port Arthur.

THE SURGEON’S KNIFE LONDON, Feb. 21

Mr Justice Roche, at the opening of the Durham Assizes, said that Halt tho li-t of eases arose from unbalanced should not be initiated in the cases of persons liable to commit unnatural and indecent crimes.