BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, A GREAT ARCHITECT. Vj; EX 81-CENTENARY. LONDON, February 2G.

The celebration of “Wren Week”, in connexion with tke bi-centenary of the death of Sir Christopher Wren, includes o. service in St. Paul’s. Delegations representing British, American and Dominion architects will attend, and Dean fnge will nreachp the memorial sermon. Sir Aston Webb and other prominent architects are delivering addresses at the Institute of British \rchiteets and elsewhere on Wren's work and are organising visits to the City Churches, to Oxford and Cambridge, and to Hampton Court, where Wren died. The authorities of .St. Paul’s are making great efforts to raise funds to arrest the decay in the fabric of the Cathedral, which Canon Alexander on Sunday cnllde the ‘‘Parish Church of the British Empire.’’ BRILLIANT NEW STAB. BARIS. Fel> 27.

.M. Camilh Flainmarion announces that a star of the set nml magnitude in the Constellation of the Whale. has suddenly burst into a brilliant. greater than that, of Ableinariin. FOSSILIZED SKULL. (Received this dnv at P. 30 a.in.) BUENOS AYRES Fell. 2(1.

Doctor .f. G. Wolf formerly attached to the Canadian Geological Mirvcy and now an explorer for La Plata Museum announced the discovery oi a fossilized human skull of the tertiary period during i xenv.'u ions in Patagonia. 'I lalower iav. i.- missing, hut otherwise the skull is almost perfect. The eye and teeth sockets are clearly defined. The cranium is long and oval, and forehead extremely low and sloping. AMERICAN SHIPPING. NEW YORK. February 27. Seattle Tnms-Atlautie Steamship Covin abandoning £]'■■•■ plan to operate the Coasthound fleet via Europe. The Jufilkii Main has been chartered to load lumber at Gray’s harbour for Austra-

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The “Morning Post.” in a leading article says : “A return of the “tight little island” theory of our remote ancestors is no longer practicable, as the old world has been to a great: ex tout destroyed, and foreign countries tend to .shut out our trade. We are forced to cultivate our own Empire. There are difficulties in the revival nt this policy, tin l greatest being that the United Kingdom no longer bases ilself upon production. For a century our manufacturers have been warring with our agriculturalists. Agriculture should he made a, key industry, under the .Safeguarding of Industry Act. I| this is done, it will he easy in come to accord with the Dominions’ policy. ROYAL VISIT TO ROME. LONDON, Feb 20. It is officially announced that their Majesties will visit Borne on May <th. They leave Romo on May 12th. LABOR SUGGESTION. ,'Received this dnv at 11.30 a.m 1 LONDON. Fell. 27.

The Labour Party tabled the fodovving motion in the Commons—‘This House, believing that- the peoples of Europe wish to maintain pence and pursue a policy which will secure it. agrees to invite in the first instance, the French and Belgian Chambers, ouch to appoint a committee representing all parties in order to exchange information and views with a similar committee of this House, regarding the occupation of Ruhr ill relation " the security lor reparations. .’ . party is endeavouring to have a similar motion debated in Paris and Bi assets Chambers.

BANK HOAXED BY '1 I.X. /Received this day at 10 a.in.) PAIUS, February It. The -‘Matin’s” Dussoldorf correspondent reports two men. one speaking fluent French, entered the Bank and represented t’hemselvos ns French htiimcial agents. They demanded nil t.ie florins held by the hank to be hamlcd over, otherwise they would call u> French troops. They were given seven million marks worth of tlorins and left a receipt with the Bank manager, who presented the receipt an hour later at tile French cilice. Ho was then informed he had been cleioily hoaxed by two thieve -. A SALVAGE ATTEMPT. LONDON, February 27. Hie Admiralty's salvage vessel Racer leaves Portsmouth in April to make a further attempt to recover the bullion lust in tlu* Lauren lie. sunk mar l..>u:h Xwillv in 19J7. EMPIRE EXHIBITION. I Received this day at 1 1 ••JO am.) LONDON. February 27. In the Commons. -Mr Darbishire (Liberal Westbury) inquired whether Mr Joynson Hicks would consider the abandonment of the British Empire Exhibition, with a view to limiting the guarantors probable losses. Mr Joyuson Hicks replied m the negative. He saw no reason to anticipate an ultimate loss while the ahamloinnent would inevitably involve immediate heavy losses.

ARMY ESTIMATES. "Received this day at 11.30 non.) LONDON. February 27. The ‘‘Daily Telegraph” states the Arruv estimates will amount to fiftytwo millions sterling which are ten millions below the 1922-23. representing | the War Office’s saving beyond the i recommendations of the Gcddcs Comj mit tee. j GLIDING RECORD, i PARIS, February 27. I The aviator. Mnneyro], established a , world’s distance record for gliding covering five miles, aided hv a strong breeze. j PICTURES FOUND, i (Received this dav at 11.30 amA I ROME. February 26. ! Three Raphael paintings were discovered in a Genoa rag and hone mail’s . shop. They formerly belonged to Conn--1 tess Facco, who had to leave their ' when she left the palace in Goritza or the outbreak of war. When the Conn tess returned the paintings were missing. After a long search they wen ' traced to Genoa. The dealer declare: ■ he bought them from soldiers dnritu the war.