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Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

SHUBCJJI L ROMANCE

LONDON, Juno 0

(II IX(M: FRM AX A(;! IFKM EXT. .RFKIXC, dune tt.

Lepresetitatives ot the .Ministry o I'iuanee and tie.* Ceiniau hank initint cd an agreement covering all out-•-tanning ( hittu-Gct man i|tiestioiis.

'LI IF li I'XG A 1,0 W M (Tll)Fll. ■'l All OX CO.M.MITTFI). I.OXDOX, June H. Fpilshttry. chief witness in Crumbics ittid. declared lie had ioiiud nothing to account |i,r Mis- Kaye's death from natural causes. In hi- opinion death resulted from a violent Mow on Hi,-* l:, ' : "l 111 neck. She could mu have sustained rapidly fatal injuries through itiliing against a coal cauldron. Spils!"".v .•-'itve *'i gruesome reel la I ~| the di-iovery ol the remains niclmling "I'arlv a thousand Iragment , ,u bone-. 'Ldt mole a si irom the duel'., cbietly tracing bis movement.- to oti'l irom tin* bungalow lon did not "'Bn to the happenings there. ||e wa. commit te,| (~,• trial.

MAIISAL CONSENTS TO FORM CABIXFT. BAR IS, June 7. I 1 rancois .Mn'-al, the Finance .Minister in M. Rniinur*'. (lovernment and * fit'll*l o! M, .Millcrand ha- eotisetited to form a ('abinet. Ile ini lodttces the new team on the Ultii when lie will r, ' : 'd u Bresidi'titial message stating Bre.sidetit .M.ilierand's cases. Thereafter he will -tdiinit tt vote ot I'oulidenee. L tkt' is reiecled. as i- fnn.-idcred jitohahle. .M.. .Miller,uni will resign tho Bresideticy. !|,. will therefor,* be viltdirnted on tin* s| atidpoint that he is otdy leaving his post on the clear vote "• Barliament and not at tie* holiest of oil,, section thereof. Mosn. OIL. I.O.VDOX. June 7. Advice from Baghdad states that the I’ei'siau Assent, hi;, here liave refused to I'atity the Anglo-Oak Treaty. A< Tolls’ rxio.x. I.OXDOX. June 7.

A new tlu-at I iciil oryanis.-itioii, ealb'd ■ h" Slayc Oalld. was formed at a meet, in" where.it .Mr prank lh—hi i■ r, -■ ! < ,J. j .Me-si’s |)ii Ala i ier alal A L i,;, 11 llaivdv. Lady Uyndlialii and .Mi.-.- Fva Moore Wpresont. w'ilb other ] itouineiii people who disapproved of tin- •‘trades union loot Polls" lh.. Asail-S - Assn ia t ion. ITA El ANS IN SPAIN. MADRID. dm- 7. The Italian M a ie- 1 i.-s have anived lane. They had a yri-al re<-ept ion. OF.NKBAE S.MFTS SATISFIKD. -i’l-'-eived this day at !1.2n a.m.) CAPETOWN, dune 7 Ceiieral Smuts has concluded his political loin- 11 i all tin- provinces, lie say- the prospects of the South Al'ri'-aii t arty at Ihe election' i- excellent. Ceiieral Smuts claims the people now realise lie- siliuilieallee oT the pact hel ween the Nationalists and the Eahnur Parlv and there ha- liceii a "rent swing round ol feeliny oil that aei-otilit. lie predicts the people will I decisively reject the pact.

CO V KI! NO I! -(; F.N FB A E'S APVKNI T R 11. CA PKTOAVN, dune 7. The (iov:q nor-Oencra 1, the Karl oT Aihlone, and Princess Alice, had an exeitiuy limit iny adventure in the .Messina district, Transvaal. With one at tcndaiil the Onveriior-Ociieral woittided a wild heesoine hull which (haryed -I might at the party. The Karl of Athlon,■ and an attendant lired when the animal was thirty yards away and fort moil elv killed it. OIIITFABY. OAPKTOWN. dune ; (Miituary. - Sir Arthur Mason.

SI 11 PI! CI 1.l >EIIS’ AWARD. LONDON, June K

The Award of the Industrial Court in the Sliiphuildiny dispute (cabled on 2-Ash April) yrants an increase of 7s weekly over the prevniliuy rates, paytilde in two iii'tahniuits, on the 1-11 hof dune and tic 20th of September, with an additional sixpence daily for men eieyayed i-n reyuhir work tit Southampton.

INDIAN KTKKk INDFSTBY. DF.EIII. dune K

Tic Assembly lias passed a Bill providing for the protection of the steel industries, but rejected the protective duties mi ayricidt urtil implements and restored tin- protective duty on the tinplate industry which (be select eninniittee bad omitted. CAPTIVES BEEEASEP. PEKIN, dune K. Murkav and nurtv -cabled on 22nd May have been released. .MININO CONi:HESS. LONDON, dune -. The i-lo'iny .session of the mining eoliyress lit Wembley | (-solved to i-.ui-stitule an Imperial Council of the Mininy and Met allurgii-al Institute. The coustitui ion includes coinmuut .-atioii' and io-operdtinii hetween i-oii-stilnent hodit-s tiirouyhout the Eupin-:/' ) to to'ter and maintain the hiylT "el of technical eflieienoy and

prefe'sioiiiil status ami Bl) to establish a register of professional mininy and metallurgists.

COM MINT ST HELP FOB, STRIKERS LONDON. June S.

The Coininunist Forty of Croat Britain lias issued a statement supporting the strikers and welcoming the workers’ growing spirit of revolt against tho capitalists, pledging thfin help ip tßoir sjvpsglcs.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

iCSIKAMAN AND N.Z. CABLE AfIoOCIATItIN,

The romance of a shopgirl who is now legally recognised ax a relation of Royally, culminated at the Court .session at Fdinhurgfi, when Lord Mori.son granted a dei lat a' ion that Miss Constance .Mary Lyon, a shop assistant at Aberdeen, was the eldest lawful daughter ot Hubert t'uaiest Bowes Lyon, nephew ol the Fail ol Strathmore, which relationship makes Miss Lyon a second cousin ol the Duchess of York.

A HOLY \YA 11 CALLFI). ROM F, June (!. A message from Bari stales one hundred were killed and many wounded ('ll both sides after six hours of violent lighting between Nationalists and the Oovcnimciit forces at Koinedoles. Allinnia. The latter were routed. Numerous priests ate travelling through the country nreaching a holy War and calling on the population to rise and light. ( EXTRA!. STATION (LOSES. LONDON. Junot; Iha chaos on the London elect rie railway owing to the strike of shopmen and workers at the power stations war; intiusilied today. Central London railway station dosed owing to the shutting down at midnight of the power station supplying it. Fifty-live railway stations are now dosed. Six thousand of the uniformed stall' are now out in sympathy with the strikers.