BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuters Telegrams.]

NEW COAL FIND. LONDON, Sept. 8. Engineers have discovered a newcoal field in South-east Yorkshire. Sinkings have struck a continuation of the famous Itarne-ly scam, the richest cue in England might miles eastward of iis supposed limit). Tl„. til I. live leel thick It. is l.clu-M-d that it extends eastward to Cnnle, and then extends out ti > miles under (lie North Sea. It is estimated to contain J.T thousand million tons of coal, which is sulfieient for four hundred years. HISTORY OF CHRIST. LONDON, Sept. S. The Rome correspondent ol tho Daily Mail stales: Professor Delia (Superintendent nl the National Libtaiios „f Italy) states that Dr A.larin Di Alartinfusco (discoverer of Livy’s missing 107 hooks of Roman history, which w ere missing 1,100 years) lias simultaneously discovered a histoiy ol Christ written in the year fifty-eight.

BRITISH PREMIER’S CONFESSION LONDON, September 8.

The lion. Mr R. MacDonald, at Dundee. said that ho was doubtful whether it would he possib’e in future for anyone to he Prime Minister of Britain for more than twelve months. The work was sim; !y enormous.

AN EIGHT-HOl'E DAY. BERNE, Sept. 8,

The British, French and Belgian Labour Ministers met here to-dav to discuss flic application of the Washington Eight-hour l-ahour Convention. The sjuriitl object of the Convention is to secure, if possible, the simultaneous application of the Eight-hour Convention. At present, each country is trailing fur the cithers, hut some action is 1 ic’cclining nocosary. owing to the elfeefc uf the 17criu.au Government’s order, of December last, authorising the extension of the hours of work Gy over oft per cent. The worker.-, in the nidustrial districts of Germany are working more than eight hours, while in Saxony. Bhciii'h and Westphalia, they arc w orking over ft t hours per week. Germanv’s neighbours are being affected thereby, and tin* competition is likely to he intensified when the German industries are refill uislicd with caoitai Uliclcr the Dawes scheme. The meeting will attempt to secure the official adhesion of all (ioverniiieiits to an identical convention, which nemo will then Is- able to repudiate, without notilyilig the others.

LIVY’S HISTORY. LONDON. Sept. 8. The ’ Daily .Mail's” Rome correspondent stall’s that Doctor .Mario Di Martinlusco's discovery ol the missing 10c hen l l;s of Livy mf which many scholars expressed climbl), is now confirmed Profe-scir Delia. Superintendent of the National Libraries. The Governnicot will protect its rights over the document, but will allow Murtinfusco’s library to study and translate the hocks. The place where he discovered tln-in remains a secret. The “Observer's" Rome correspondent -avs that an Oratorian priest, a Iriciid of Martinfusco, who discovered portions of Livy's history of Rome which had been inis-ing for fourteen hundred years, says that the discovc*rv was made at monastery at San Salvatore, famous for its library of manuscripts.

IRISH R'.M'NDARY OI'KSTIOX. LONDON. Sept. 8. The Irish Free State North-Eastern Boundary Bureau, nas replied to Lord Birkenhead's letter to Lord Bailout'. The Bureau savs that neither Birkenhead nor any other private individual had authority to determine the interpretation ot Article I welvc ot the jiish Treatv. The Article must lie interpreted hy the llotitidaiy Commission. NEWCASTLE, Sept. 10. Arrived.—Waitomo from Auckland; Waihemo from Wellington ; Tramendow from Dunedin.