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Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAIILE ASSOCIATION. BRITISH FARMERS’ LOSSES. LONDON. Sept. 20. At a meeting ol the National farmers' Union, the president said that arable farming had ■ cached a most critical stage. The results disclosed a heavy loss on cultivation. The farmers were faced with a loss beyond their ability to repair m 192-1. lie moved they should depuiationise the Government, and failing Government action, should reserve their liberty to advise a reduction of production. A deputation was appointed and waited on the Premier. The President declared that agriculture in Britain had reached the most critical stage in its history. The past year showed heavy losses. I hey were faced with the prospect of losses in the coming year which they could not continue to sustain. The imminence of the Imperial Economic Conference rendered necessary an immediate definite statement of the Government’s policy. The union would advise the members, wherever possible, to resort to pasture or ranch farming.

SENSATIONAL T It LA I

LONDON, Sept. 19. The sensational trial over the Glasgow hoy murder (cabled on June 21st), has concluded. The accused were a mariied couple named Newell, the charge being, that ol murdering a. newsboy. A little girl, the daughter of Airs Newell by earlier marriage gave astonishing evidence. She said she went indoors from her playground. She saw a newsboy lying on a couch. Her mother covered his face with paper breeches. Then she tried to raise the floor with a poker, in order to hide the body. Finally she put it in a bundle, on a go-cart, the little gill being given a, seat on top of the bundle. The discovery came through the dead boy’s foot protruding from the go-cart. A crowd collected. Her mother was then arrested. During the trial the male prisoner was conclusively proved not. to have been at home at the time ol the murder. The charge against him was withdrawn. Alts Newell was sentenced to death TEA SALES. DELHI, Sep!. 19. At the Calcutta tea sales Iln-re was a good demand fur desirable sorts at firmer rates, especially those with the tip. Common sorts showed an advance on the previous week. Dusts were easier. Prices ranged fro,in 12 annas nine pice to fifteen annas six pice.

GENERAL AND ADMIRAL RELEASED. ATHENS, Sept. 19. General Stratigos and Admiral (Lindas whose arrest was cabled last November 2S, have been released. LAND CONFISCATED. IIUDAPEST'H, Sept. 19 The Rumanian Government has confiscated the landed State in Transylvania belonging to Count Bet bleu. The land will he divided among neighbouring small land owners. ADVANCE OF SCIENCE. LONDON, Sen. 19. Sir Oliver Lodge, summarising the results and value at the present British Association meeting, said that he sometimes thought we were living at the beginning of a new Newtonian age, one that was making disioveries every week. \Ve were living in an extraordinary period ol discovery and.physical science. The discoveries in the last 2-'i years had been sn numerous Hint lie could scarcely keep up with them. If this rate of progress continued, "hi could gauge what the future held? I’ll EVERY El) FOODS AND CANCER. (Received this day at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 20.

At tin- British Association C.‘(ingress, Sir Frederick Treves in endorsing Oopoman’s statement, said lliat the uotcworthy increase in cancer during recent years exactly coincided with the introduction of preserved loods, extracts, concentrated foods, cold storage supplies, tinned meats, iish and anything that contained preservatives. The coincidence was possihlv accidental

but it was a most conspicuous feature of the problem and demanded thorough research.

BUXTON EXPEDITION. , (Received this day at fMo a.mA LONDON. Sep. 20. The chief object of the Buxton expedition to the South Seas is to study elephantiasts and fiiarasis. The latter 1 is believed to he the chief cause ol the , decline of the Polynesian population. t All attempt will he made to exterimn- s ate the 'mosquito, and a beginning will ( probably he made with the smaller islands. I’ure water will he supplmd. i instead of the native method ot storing it ill artificially-hollowed trees. Airways will he cot through the undergrowth ill , order to allow the trade winds to bio" , through. i .1 rG f )-S r. A VIA N DANG E It. LONDON. Sep. 21). The veteran premier of Jiign-Slavia is also faced with a serious national da.iaor resulting from the triumphs of tinItalian policy in the Adriatic, culminating in the occupation of Hume and the menace of the Coniitnd.u activity m "Macedonia, also the thinly veiled hostility of Bulgaria, which seems to he onlv waiting a favourable opi»n Unity to seize the coveted prize ol Macedonia. The Armv is irritated feels hum.ha ed and considers .lugo-Slavia has .ilua . go,to too far along the road ol <o"cessions. Uis not impossible t hat Cabinet will he succeeded hv a mditaiy data l ° Italians are reinforcing:,Finnic irontici line. The Serbs have withdrawn ten miles in order to avoid a couth, t. THE EROXTIKRSMAN’S DIEEIcrt/riEs. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10. A telegram from Los Angelos states that twenty-nine British war veterans who arrived aboard the yacht Frontieumnn to make arrangements in the interests of the British airplane flush i ■wound the world next year, have fall?n into difficulties. The Federal officials seized the vaclit for the violation ot the liquor law. commercial firms twice labelled the vessel for alleged debts, and their ship’s surgeon is ill with malaria fever; funds and supplies are short, and the men expect to go to work. Mil LLOYD OBORGF.’S NKNT ARTICLE. (Received this day at 10 «.m.) . LONDON. Sept. 20. ■ Mr Llovd George’s next article deals , with the general reaction against democracy as exemplified by Bolshevism and Fascism, and the revolutions m Bulgaria- and' Spain.

UNION’S THREAT. LONDON, Sept. 20. Rislaiuls, a member of the Fanners Union, informs the ‘•-Morning ost that if the Union’s threat is earned out two million acres of arable land will revert to grass, throwing seventyfive thousand labourers out of work.