BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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lUBTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. WHEAT’ SUPPLIES. LONDON, Oct. 10. The “Times” in a leader, drawing attention to the remarkable .level qiment of the Chinese-.lapanese dome, id for wheat, points out that last season •sixty-two million bushels of North American were shipped to the Far East. It adds that it would not be right to declare the situation alarming, but no one looking to the future rather than tin* immediate present an fail tn recognise that it Britain is compelled to continue to import four-fifths of her wheat requirements, it is impossible to view without some anxiety, the development of important competition for the surplus supplies now available. DETER All NED SUICIDfc. LONDON. Oct. 1(L An astonishing case of determination in committing suicide occurred at Brighton Beach, where a middle aged man was found drowned with a large portmanteau filled with big stones secured to bis body by two straps, one tied round both feet and the other round his neck. In the man’s pocket were found two hypodermic needles, a bottle of poison, and linen marked with the name Lash.

OXYOEN CYLINDER EXPLODES

TWENTY PEOPLE INJURED

LONDON, Oct. Hi

An oxygen cylinder fell from a lorry passing through a street in Greenock and exploded. The other cylinders on the lorry immediately exploded, injuring a number of passers by and wrecking a tram car. Twenty people were* conveyed to the hospital.

SPAIN AND MOROCCO. MADR ID October Hi

General Prinio de llivera, the l)i----rectnr of Spain, whose policy ol a partial evacuation of Morocco lias Icing displeased the Military Party, is now vested with the full responsibility for all affairs in .Morocco, King Allonso having to-day appointed him High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief in Morocco.

Ccneral de ltiv-ra also remains head of the Directory in Spain. General Aizpuru, who was only appointed to the post oil October 11, has unexpectedly resigned the Commissionoisliip in Morocco for health reasons.

JAP RETRENCHMENT. TOKIO, October 10.

The Japanese Department of Finance proposes to dismiss -l(itll) higher and .|.|,150 petty (lovernmeul oHicials, in November, in furtherance of its eenuomov plan, and it is proposing to ask tht Diet in December to grant 100 million yen as solan* money. This docs not include the* Army and Navy leductioiis, or those in tla* service ol the prefectures and. the eooliiies.

EMPLOYEES TO REN BANK. SAN FRANCISCO. October 10

The Board of Dire tars of the Bank of Italy, a three hundred and fitly million cuahu- 'institution, have approved a plan wtiercb.v the 2200 employees of the Bank will take over it.s ■ a ll lrot on January next. The plan ea!|, for the containing of a controlling black ol stock by the active* employees and a change < I the edlicer.s and directorate at least every live ,ears, to allow of promotrons. A FINE PRECEDENT. ..Received ibis day at !L‘_’o a.m.) CAPETOWN. October 17. At a dinner given to him on the eve of his departure for England. Lord Burnham said the visit ol tin* Parliamentary delegates would go down as the finest precedent in Parliamentary hislorv. [t was woiidcrlul that the youngest of all the Dominions Parliaments should have clone ibis thing in a spirit of gra this consideration which was utterly impossible for tie* "t her Dominions *vi*r to outdo. DISASTROUS EIRE. CAPETOWN, October 17. A disastrous tire destroyed the beadgear of the enisliing house of the Luiclpnnrdolci gold mine near Krugersdorp. The damage is 1510,000. It is feared the mine will be unworkable* for some mouths idling about 100 whites and 1500 natives.