BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1923, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TEA SALES. CALCUTTA, July 18. At tho tea sales there was a good demand tit previous rates for all grades excepting the poorest. DOCK STRIKE EXTENDS. LONDON, July 18. There has been a serious extension of v the dock strike on the Mersey side. Several thousand struck at Liverpool and tho work of handling tho Atlantic liners and deep sea cargo boats is stopped. All tho coastal nnd cross Channel services have been suspended. Tho foreign fruit trade at Covont Gardent and meat trade at Sinithfiekl is practically at a. standstill.

PI 111. LI PINES AFFAIRS.

MANILA, July 18

The whole Filipino Cabinet nnd members of tho Council of State have resigned following a difference over the question of authority of the Governor General in the matters relating to internal Government. The resignations have been accepted.

STOPPAGES AT LIVERPOOL. LONDON, July 18. There has been further trouble at Liverpool. The strikers induced two hundred dockers, on three vessels, to cease work, alleging that ono vessel from Australia had been diverted from Manchester, blit the owners stated they merely followed a usual custom that, when a vessel bound for Manchester arrived late, they docked her at Liverpool. FRUIT CARGOES SUFFER. LONDON, July 18. Owing to the strikers’ Intimidation of carmen, it was found necessary to close the Floral Hall at Covent Garden where imported fruit is auctioned. Already large quantities of Continental soft fruits have been rendered unfit for consumption, due to slow discharge at London docks. Therefore thousands of packages are being discharged at Folkestone, and dispatched to London .

EFFORTS FOR SETTLEMENT

LONDON, July 18.

Negotiations nave begun between the unofficial dockers’ strike committee and tho Transport Union in an endeavour to settle the strike, as its effects are being seriously felt, in London. A deputation of strikers, which visited the Home Office, was intormod of the absolute necessity of expediting a clearance of perishable foodstuffs. Covent Garden porters deny they were subject to any intimidation. They admit that when one man attempted to work to-day, lie was stripped naked, and sent homo in a cab for his pains. Extra police are being sent to the big food distributing centres. FREE LABOUR. LONDON, July 18. The .Manchester docket's refuse to allow the unloading of fruit, which is rotting in tho docks. The Directors of tho Ship Canal therefore contcmplato calling for flee labour. The pone is at Smithficld Market, by 103 votes to 66, have decided to support- tho strike by remaining out of work. Almy porters refrained from voting. Meanwhile shopkeepers, clerks and salesmen at Smithfield will carry meat. SURGEONS’ CONFERENCE. LONDON, July 18. Unusual interest was displayed at tho Surgical Congress in Dr Voronoff's methods of bringing about rejuvenation. He explained in detail the technique of the operation. He also produced a film to illustrate the extraordinary effects of the transformation in his patients. The views shown on the screen were surprising. Patients previously thin and decrepit became changed into vigorous men. One, who was old .and hem before tho treatment, was shown golfing, walking, and rowing after the operation. Dr Vorouolf said he had performed 44 operations. His oldest patient was

77. Tie admitted that all lie: could do was to stimulate those organs capable of being stimulated. The King gave an audience to Dr Banting, the discoverer of insulin, the diabetes cure. Mr Neville Chamberlain, presiding at a Government luncheon to the delegales to the Surgeons’ Conference, said that during the last 60 years, the death rate in Britain had been reduced from 17 per thousand to thirteen. The extension of life had increased about a decade. This was indubitably due to the advancement in surgical science. A REMARKABLE WILL. LONDON, July IS. Reverend Wagon Treiher, Vicar of Bcnshaw, who loft .6503, included a remarkable passage in his will, viz:—“l commend my widow and daughter to the beneficence of the Bishop of Manchester and the Board of Finance, reminding them of my -10 years’ service, starved, and poverty-stricken, in that diocese. God, can these things lie, in the richest church, Thy Church of England !” AIR SCHEME. iTteceived this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 19. The probability of an early decision in connection with the big airship scheme which would later take in Australia, was suggested by the Duke of Sutherland at the annual meeting of the air league of the British Empire. He believed the scheme would soon bo arranged, which would have far reaching effects, both in linking the Empire and making for the last even’kual goal. Wo will gradually move in stages in that direction, the first to Egypt, then India and Australia, and then round the world. The only wav to prevent a future war in the aid was to have an

air force of proportionate size to the strength of the Empire. Extensive improvements were now being considered, especially the amalgamation of the various companies concerned in civil aviation ami the employment of large sums of private capital. MOTHERS UNION. 'Received this dav at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 19. The Bishop of London presided at the laying of the foundation stone of the new headquarters of the Mothers Union, Westminister, known as Mary Summer House, in memory of the founder of the movement. Delegates from Australia and New' Zealand were present. STATE AID OF MIORATION. this dav at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 19. Mr Biicklv, at the Empire Service Conference emphasised the value of State aid in connection with migration to Australia and New Zealand. He wished more had been done with Canada.