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Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1924, Page 3

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LATEST CABLE NEWS

INDUSTRIAL COURTS BILL,

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/Received this day til 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, April 9.

In the House of Lords the second reading of the Industrial Courts Amendment- Bill was carried. Baron Askwith explained the measure provided that where the Minister for Labour referred a dispute to the Court of Inquiry it he unlawful for an employer or a workman to precipitate a breach.

Lord Haldane doubted whether the Bill was pra etieahle, though he agreed with its main object. ITALIAN ELECTIONS. ROME, April 9. The new Chamber consists of the Government Party 375, against 100 representing the eleven other parties. The Popular Party now numbers 40, having lost GO seats. The Democratic Socialists are now 25, having lost 57 seats, KING GEORGE OE GREECE. BUCHAREST, April 8. In an impassioned despatch to the Greek people the exiled King Goerge demands to he restored to the monarchy. He declares tho violent suppression of the principles upon which the State was founded impels him lu protest against the iniquity committed against the nation and to demand the free exercise of the rights and duties of royalty provided for in the constitution.

RUSSIAN TRIALS. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) MOSCOW, April 8. The trial Ims concluded at Kielf. of a number of prominent local intelligentsia, mostly .Social Democrats, including several Professors and two women, on a charge of treason. Our. namely Tchyebakov, Yakoviev. luovsky. and Madame Vinogradova wove sentenced to death and six others to ten years imprisonment, one woman to seven years and others to five years. Advices from Paris state that anticipating death sentences, Al. Poincare telegraphed to Tchitcheriii declaring that French public opinion was gravely perturbed over the execution. of Professors, which would cause great sorrow, and he regarded as a diminution of the world’s intellectual patrimony. The French Government asked the Anglo-Italian Governments to support his appeal.

AFRICAN POLICY. (Received this dav at 11.25 n.tu.) CAPETOWN, April 9. Speaking at Spellen Bosch, Mr fTortzog said the segregation of natives was a definite policy of tho Nationalist Party and would lie put into operation ns soon as they got into power. Only by those means could justice he done to the coloured people, who were the product of European occupation, and were entitled to industrial and political equality with Europeans,

LOCK OUT SUSPENDED. LONDON, April 9. The Shipyard lockout has been suspended till 11th. April.

DEMONSTRATION OF RAY TN FLAT. 'Received this dav at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, April 9. “A “Star” investigator witnessed an astonishing demonstration of the Mathew's ray on a low power apparatus in a London Hat. The- ray was directed eighteen feet and it passed through a glass insulating device, scorched the woodwork thereunder ami subsequently ignited a tray of gunpowder and stopped a petrol motor. The investigator and an assistant, held the connections of a two hundred volt electric lamp which glowed under the rays ol invisible magic.