BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1923, Page 1

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N'.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FARMERS’ PARTY ADVOCATED LONDON, Sept 24. AA’. Christopher Turner and Bernard Gilbert, in a book called “Where are We Going." appeal to all interested landowners, farmers and labourers to unite and form a rural party, independent of all other political organisations, citing the example of Australia and Canada. Lord Bledisloe. in a preface, declares that each political party has, in turn, made the agriculturists its catspaw, and political Conservatism dominated by urban influences founded on ignorant and myoptic prejudice has no settled plan for the salvation of British agriculture, because it has no convictions. MOTOR RACE. PARIS, Sept. 23. The race for the Lemon International motoring cup at Voiturettos, over a course of <lO4 kilometres 170 metres, was won by Divot on a Talbot machine, in 210 min. 12-osecs. FA t’TI U,)FA FF. DECOR DEI). CAIRO. Sep. 23. The Ilelouan observatory lasi evening recorded a big earthquake about fifteen hundred miles distant. MINF EXPLOSION. WARSAW, Sep. 23. Thirty-six miners were killed by an explosion of lire-damp in the Roden mine, Kattowitz. PASSENGERS CARRIED OFF. DELTIT, Sep. 23. According to Allahabad, the pioneer of private motor carrying, the Indians held up on the loth September at Sank on the Debra Tsmal Khan road, near Hatbala, one passenger is dead and two were carried oil". The frontier constabulary are taking action. A VISCOUNT DEAD.

LONDON, Sept. 23. Obituary.—Viscount John Morle.v, of Blackburn.

DRAMATIC PRODUCTION. LONDON. Sept. 21

The critics proclaim “Hassan” as a triumph of poetic drama as, well as a very brilliant spectacle.