BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

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BETTER TRADE AMALGAMATION LONDON, July 25.

An amalgamation of considerable importance in the butter trade is announced. Home and Colonial Stores, Ltd., have acquired a substantial interest in the Maypolo Dairy Company. Details are not disclosed, hut Home and Colonial stores are issuing 250,000 new 20s shares at 50s. It is understood that ihe primary object of the fusion of these important multiple shop companies is the elimination of competition, liotli are large buyers of colonial butter and cheese.

THE MEAT TRADE. LONDON. July 25. The following quotations are for wholesale quantities, delivered at .Smithfield market, prices last previously cabled being given in parenthe-

Firo'ien mnjton.—Canterbury, light 7:|d (7)d), medium 7]d f7d). heavy 7d (fi’d); North Island, light 7Jd (7d'l, medium 7il (GJd). heavy Grid (GRl); New Zealand owes. s’d (sd) ; Argentine light (ijd ((id), medium fid (5Jd), heavy 5Jd ( Ij’d); ewes, 5d (.ltd): Patagonian, light (i.UI (did), medium GJd (—): owes, 5Jd (5.J(1) per lb. Frozen Lamb.—Canterbury, light 11 jd ( H id), medium I<*l (103 d). heavy lOjd (10.',d); seconds, 10Id (10;d) ; seleeteds. light llil (lid), medium 10-Jd (lO.'d) ; North Island, firsts lOijd (101(1) second l()Jd (!OJd) : Argentine, firsts, light 10.1(1 < 10]d), medium OJd (OJd), seconds,* lOd (9Jd) ; Patagonian, firsts lO'.d (l()d), seconds 10),d (10d) i>er lb. Frozen Beef.— Argentine, fores 2J<l fold), hinds i;d (I’d); Uruguay, fores 2Jd (2d), hinds -ltd (hi) per lb. Chilled Beef. —Argentine, hinds fijd (-,.1.) ; Uruguay, fores 2j|d <2}d), hinds 5),(1 H:!d) per H>- Other meats are unchanged.

GREEK EX-KING. LONDON. July 27

Interviewed by the “Daily Express” King George of Greece, says: ‘‘l am convinced that it is only a inattei ot time when I shall he recalled to the throne. The plebiscite dethroning us was faked. \Ye were never a rich family. The Republicans have confiscated nil our property, which was in lands in (livoct*. My small income is quite insufficient for my needs.” EXPRESS DERAILED. LONDON. July 27. A third attempt within a year to wreck a train near Durham resulted in the North Eastern night express, hound for Scotland, being temporarily derailed when travelling at fit) miles an hour, near Durham. It crashed into metal chairs, each weighing thirty lbs. Fortunately, the second chair, put Lite train hack on the lines. The driver was able to stop the engine though seriously hurt by the collison.

SCHOOL COLLAPSES.

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(Received this day at 9 a.in.) DELHI, July 28. . As the result of the floods the hoys .school in Chernthurntliy. Cochin State, collapsed. One teacher and sixty-four sohoiars were killed and many (Trill red. CAUGHT IN A STORM. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 28. Four French holiday makers, including a woman, were fishing in the English Channel when they were caught in a heavy torm. They succeeded. after a two days' buffeting, in reaching and rocky inlet nt Echroheou where their boat was wrecked. They subsisted for lour days on shell fish, suffering tortures Irom the lack of water. They were 011 the brink of collapse M hen they were rescued by Mr.s Kohoiuti. the widow of a British officer, "•'ho visited the inlets weekly to Iced the birds and succour casta way fishermen. THE BIGHT TO KILL. lßecc : ved this day at 9.15 a.m.) PARIS, July 28. The right to kill was the defence of Stanislawii Uminska, tlie Polish actress, charged with the shooting of her husband who was slowly dying of cancer of the liver. Uminska gave her evidence sobbingly stretching out her arms pleadingly to the Magistrate saying: “I loved him. I had to kill him to end his sufferings, which wore terrible to see. He continually pleaded with me to kill him, and he gavo me a revolver, lie said a bullet in the month would bring instant death. 1 refused, hut when I saw his toiiures increasing without hope of recovery, I shot him when lie was sleeping.”

A ('ALLOCS COITLE. VIENNA, July 28. A .shoemaker and his wife have conto tin* iminiiT of Jiftv-oiu* pros- ] ertlve emigrants. The w ife enticed the victims home and drugged them with wine. The couple lived for two years on the proceeds of their crimes.

PERSIAN STATEMENT.

(Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) DELHI. July 28.

The Persian Consul General tit Bombay publishes a letter from the Foreign Minister deploring the recent murder in Teheran. The letter contradicts the .statement in protest by foreign diplomats in Teheran to the Persian Government that the police and military took no steps to protect the victims from the infuriated mob, and contends that so vigorous was the action of the tones of the law that three armed police and one soldier were killed and o theirs injured. A rigorous punishment of the offenders is promised. BANK OFFIC7AI.S CHARGED. '.Received, this day at 9.25 a.m.) , DELHI, July 28. The directors and auditors of the Alliance Bank of Simla which failed sensationally in the past year for a largo sum have been ordered by the High Court of Bengal to he prosecuted in me civil Court for negligence. ,>