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Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. BYE-ELECTION. LONDON, May 4. The bye-election for West Belfast sent in tho Ulster Parliament resulted : Colonel 'Woods (Independent Unionist) 27,219. Sir Joseph Davidson (Grand Master of Orangemen) 19,300. Colonel Woods victory was due to his receiving the votes of ten thousand Nationalists who wero anxious to defeat Sir .1. Davidson. TO BE RELEASED. LONDON, May I. The Foreign Office announces that tin* Soviet released the crew ol the trawler James Johnson, cabled on 3rd Apri 1. NEW ZEALAND LOAN. LONDON, May 3. New Zealand is floating a lour million loan next week, of which three millions are for public works and one million for redemption. * BRITISH PAPER’S VIEWS. LONDON, May 4. Commenting on pessimistic views of llic wool market. Goldfinch, waiting in the “Yorkshire Observer.’’ says there is no justification for alarmist views. Known facts point to persistence of consumption in excess of production for at least the next two years. Each year the popularity of wool clothing is increasing amongst peoples who hitherto relied mainly on cotton goods. This applied particularly to the Far East.

Tho “Yorkshire Rost” says for the moment America is dictator, but time will prove how long she will remain so. Her war wealth enables her now to enjoy a period of prosperity in marked contrast £o the nations on this side of the Atlantic, but already warnings have been uttered regarding the future of the United States. 'Hints have been made of over-production and certainly her markets can he flooded with imported goods unless even a more drastic tariff than the present lie established. Also consumers in the United States have been known to organise strikes wliert values of textiles got too high. Some assert the prices arc already at danger point, therefore one may admit the prospect of a scarcity of wool in the aggregate if not in actual shortage in relation to demand without the fear of values soaring to such dizzy heights as some optimists would have us look forward to. EGYPTIAN WOMEN’S MOVE. CAIRO, -May 4. The onuuicipiation of Egyptian women was opened when a deputation of Egyptian women left to attend an international Women’s Conference at Rome, pledged t« a programme which came as a surprise to Egyptians generally. Among other demands the women claim more freedom than they at present have in the choice of husbands, also a modification of the marriage laws aiming at the abolition of polygamy and divorce without due cause. The women further claim education facilities and improvement of sanitary conditions in Egypt. The deputation had gone before public opinion had time to express itself on these views, which threaten to revolutionise women’s status in Egypt. PLAGUE IN UPPER EGYPT. CAIRO. May 4. There is an alarming outbreak of plague in Upper Egypt. A hundred cases are being treated. HON WINSTON CHURCHILL. LONDON, May i. Hon Wniston Churchill, spienking at Aklwych Club (Ids first public appiearanco since ids defeat), said it seemed to \?*u that the Government had not yet ‘iVftdopcd those finalities ol initiative viV'-h they no doubt possessed; but. tnk\ 'N a general view of the political seen; it appeared to him that members of the Government- and others were playing a part in a concerted scheme that was almost a conspiracy to make Air Ramsay AfncDonald, Prime .Minister and bring tiie Socialist Party into power. Feuds were at a maximum and causes at a minimum. Air Asquith, although his party was reduced to a minimum, considered it disgraceful for any Liberal to co-operate with any Conservative. Such a one must he cut off from Hie company of the elect and banished from the tabernacles of the faithful. Yet Afr Asquith and his friends would eagerly co-operate with the Socialists if onlv the Socialists were willing.

|)1 VOUCH NEWS. LONDON, May 4. Tho Lower House of Convocation of Canterbury unanimously adopted a resolution expressing the opinion that proper discretion had not been shown in recent years in the publication ol divorce cases. If the common law was not adequate to enable the public prosecutor to act, further legislation should ho passed. GOLFER DROPS DEAD LONDON, May -I. Brooks, a member of the Sudbury Golf Club, after playing an excellent shot, said to his partner: “I knew that was going to he a. good one because I felt so comfortable.” He then immediately dropped dead. CUP FINAL RIOT. JiONDON, May -I. The Football Association has issued a statement regretting the incidents and also the inconveniences caused to the public at the Clip FinaT, and offering to return their money to purchasers of scat tickets who were unable to take their scans. The Board of the Empire Exhibition announces that 90.520 persons paid 2s admittance, and 35,527 out of 55,000 ticket holders were admitted, making a total of 120. 047 apart from those who rushed the harriers without paying.

DUKE AND DUCHESS OF YORK. (Received this day at 9.30 n.m.) LONDON, May 0. The Duke and Duchess of York return to Buckingham Palace on Monday and will receive the .Boy -Scout who travelled from Basra for the purpose of presenting a carpet as a weddiitg gift from the British residents ill Mesopotamia. LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, May G. The League of Nations I nion unanimously passed a resolution expressing the opinion, that, in view ol the German offer, the time has arrived when Britain ought to suggest that the questions of reparations, iu-ter-AUicd debts, security of frontiers, and the limitation of armaments, should be referred to the Council of the League and that Germany should be immediately invited to join same.

JOURNALIST DEAD. LONDON, May 6. Obituary—AVillia-m Robertson Nieholl, editor of the ‘‘British Weekly” and “Bookman.”