BRITISH X FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1923, Page 3

BRITISH X FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. BRITISH POLITICS. <H«ceived this day at 'J.d;} a.m.) LONDON, -August 9. Premier Baldwin Held in lengthy colife run cow it li Lord Curzon mid other Ministers* preliminary to to-day's Cabinet meeting. The Westminster Gazette states the delay in publishing the documents is due to a. desire to include the reply to France, on which Mr Baldwin and Lord Curzon are engaged.

LABOUR MANIFESTO. (Received this day at 11.-Jo a.m.) LONDON, August 0. A manifesto issued by the Transport and General Workers Union and the National Union of Railwaymen, foreshadows the beginning of a dual by the alliance of the rail and road workers, ft is not unlikely that it will mean the revival of the triple labour alliance. The manifesto states that the united front of the employers can only he met bv n united front of the workers. Union representatives will confer in London on September 18th. ('OCAINK TR AFFK'KF.RS. (Received this dnv at 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, August 8. In a case in which coloured men •were engaged in the cocaine traffic and who were sentenced to three years impi isonment the prosecuting counsel stated that owing to the cocaine habit increasingly ensnaring victims the Home Office bad raised i-c penalties for the traffickers to a maximum of five thousand pounds or ten years imprisonment.

NEW AIR LINER. new york-iiamburg service. (Received this day at 10. to a.m.) LONDON, August 8. The “Daily Chronicle” says that the keel has been laid for an airship for the New Vork-Hamhurg serviie. The vessel is designed lor a speed of one hundred miles an hour. The carriage will hold three hundred passengers and is fitted with a hull which will lloat. 'plie luxurious fittings include a roof garden. The ship is 95 feet long. Iff Feet wide and MO feet high with spaciiouß State .rooms. The saloons are similar to those of an ocean liner, and i.. 0 dangers of fire and explosion are eliminated. The airship was designed by Bonier, a Dutch engineer. It. is intended to make two Lips weekly between New York and Hamburg. it being believed that the passage will be made in two days. PORT CHARGES. (Received this day at 11.-15 a.m.) LONDON. Aug 9. The “Dnilv Telegraph” editorially savs people in the dominions in the Pacific, instead of crying out for twenty 21 knot ships such as the North Atlantic with its great traffic supports, would lie 1 letter advised to study the statistics of the Chamber ot > >,pping regarding port charges and see u lather thev cannot be reduced to a reasoi. > <- level, to their own advantage. llk t arrangement, il the term t" n° strong for friendly criticism. has made in good time for action 1h outlie Economic Conference _ assembles. The prosperity of the Dominions depends mainly on the cheapening of the carriage of goods. It is appaient this respect that they can do ninth to help themselves.

NEW CLUB FORMED. DELHI. Aug. 9. A cricket club on the lines of the Marvlebone Club has been inaugurated at Bombay. Raniitsinhji is the first President.