BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION. siui’i'iM; i.'F.i’iifssiox. LONDON, fcb. 22. in iiis presidential address to the Chamber of Siiip<>f the inited Kingdom. Sir Alan Anderson said the depression continued, hut he thought it had touched the hotloin of bad freights. There was .-till a reduntaiit reef of vessels in all countries el rhe world, but the tonnage laid 11 j. m lie. l world had lall'ii from nine ini I lions gross in July I!iJJ to eight million- in July and the laid up tonnage m fuited Kingdom from 1 ,dfl().0(111 tons in January Hllit! to l.(in*).W) in danuarv 1! IJI. There was evidence that thc» position of the ISntish men untile marine had profited hv the' medicine of adversity.

LUXOR TO.MIL . EGYPT TAKES OVER. I.ON DON, Fob. 22. Advices from Luxor stale that representatives of tiie Egyptian Government have taken over Tutankhamen's tomb. The locks allixcd by Mr Howard Carter were sawn off. and the interior v ns inspected. .Measures to prevent damage In the contents were taken, alter which new locks were affixed, and the doors of the tomb reelosod. Mr Carter and Ids assistants were not present. LADY (.’AH X A VOX. LONDON. Feb. The ‘‘Morning Post’s Cairo correspondent. says:—“lt. i, stated by the Government Telegraph that Lady Uarnarbon is oll'ering to renew her einitraet on the same terms which Mr Carter rejected a few days ago.” HOUSING REFORM. LONDON. Feb. 21b The “.Morning Post's" Rome corres-

pondent says: “The Italian Cabinet has sanctioned a de-roe under which the Prefects are empowered to compel landlords to occupy their vacant lints or houses, or else let them to tenants designated by the Prefects. The rentals are to be fixed by •Commission:; oi Arbitration.

FRENCH POLITICS

PARIS. Feb. 23. The Chamber of Deputies, by 33■> votes to 218. lias approved as a whole of the Government’s feral programme. Ilie taxation proposals are expected to produce seven and a-liall milliards additional revenue, must of which will be used in balancing the budget agansl the so-called recoverable expenditure hitherto merely diluted to Germany's account. PARIS. Feb. 23. flie Chamber, continuing the debate on the Government's financial proposnls, resolved to rotor Articles 17 and 51. which increase the penalties for the non-payment of taxes, to the Budgot. Committee, not w i.tlist.Hiding the objection of the Government, which, however, did not make the vote a question M confidence.

A FATAL FALL. LONDON. February 23 A woman and two young children «, r0 killed by falling Ir.mi the top tower of the Westminster Catlcdi.- Ca Medial, this aft eninon. IMPERIAL WIRELESS PLANS. LONDON. E"b. 23. The “Daily Chronicle" under-iamb Mr MacDonald's committee's report favours the Government'.- resmnptior of (hi' control ot tie'* wireless statin... in order to secure direct comm.mica tinn with the Dominions, without ’.laving to rely upon a possible monopoly. The report of the Empire Wireless Commit tee present ed to the Postmas-ter-General (Mr Harl.-bore), while recommending Government control, is not unfavourable to private companies. emigration control. LONDON, Feb. 20. Mr \Y. I,unit, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary Department of Overseas Trade lias become Chairman of the Overseas Settlement Committee. He will he responsible under -Mr J. 11. Thomas (Colonial Secretary) for the conduct of overseas settlement tor the Colonies, and the Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Labour will also he members of the Committee. AUSTRIAN STATE. OPERA. (Received this day at, S a.nt.) LONDON. February 21. The Austrian .Minister, in officially announcing to the Foreign Office the a t andonment. of the Austrian State Opera’s proposed visit to London, says the main object of the visit was to promote a- good feeling between the two reentries and intensify British interest in the Austrian people’s great artistic achievements: hut as the project met with solve opposition Britain is imt assured of their general goodw ill. The principal purpose of the visit miglu |,f. defeated, hut the Minister hopes that a visit will he arrnngeahle later under more favourable eircnmstanees.

PROGRESS OF WIRELESS.

TRAIN PASSENGERS ENTERTAINED.

B*»'*eived this day at 8 a.m.) I LONDON, February 2-1. .Successful experiments have been carried out on the Great A\ extern Railway for wireless listening in on mining trains with a six valve set and inside aerial. The London to Birmingham two-hour express immediately picked up a London broadcasting station’s concert. The items were clearly heard. In, means of a loud speaker, above the i oise of the train despite attainments ~( eighty miles hourly. ’When the train was sixty miles from London tl.e apparatus was changed for a different wave length, and a Birmingham broadcasted programme was beard equally well. .Alii THEODORE'S DENIAL. (Received this day at S a.m.) LONDON. February 2-1. AL Theodoie. the Queensland I.V--has arrived. He denied that he was engaged in loan transactions with America. He declined to commit himto the question of Empire preferCIK'OS. ATTEAIT’TED S, U'IDE FROM A-IR FLANK. LONDON, February 23. “I must go up in an aeroplane to-day. Can Igo to Cologne?" said a, man telephoning to the Croydon Aerodtome. When told that the Cologne mail had gone, hut that a machine was shortly going to Paris, the man said: “-Anywhere will do!" The air officer became suspicious that- the man wanted ro commit suicide from an aeroplane. He took his name and address over the telephone ostensibly for the issue of the ticket to Paris. Then he communicated with the police, who went to the office address given. 'I here they found a farewell letter which it is understood announced the writer’s intention 1 to committ suicide. When the man ari rived at Croydon, he was detained mill friends took him home. ■