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Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1924, Page 3

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[Reuters Tei.kgkams.l AORANGFS LIFEBOATS. LONDON, November 17. A lifeboat which, when fully loaded with 8.) souls, one man can lower to the water from a sinking ship in a few minutes is now being put on ocean liners for the first time. A party of shipping representatives from London have just viewed a demonstration on the new motor-ship Aorangi at the Fairfield yards on tlie Clyde. My releasing a lever the boat automatically drops to the promenade deck, where passengers can quickly embark, following which it is lowered to the water. The first vessel to he fitted with the new apparatus is the Aorangi. which is due to leave London shortly on her maiden voyage to New Zealand and Australia. The Aorangi carries |7> of tlns boats, two of which are fitted with wireless, including a. motor-boat.

•STATESM EX’S CLOTHES. CRITICISM OF MINISTERS. LONDON. November 10. The “Tailor and Cutter” journal, criticising the dress of the Cabinet Ministers, congratulates Mr Baldwin on the marked improvement in his clothes, and urges him to acquire that “Welldressed feeling'' which helps to surmount obstacles. “.Mr Austen Chamberlain is the real leader of fashion in the House of Commons.” say the paper. “The cut- of his coat and the hang of his trousers arc beyond criticism. Lord Birkenhead has good clothes, ami knows how to put them on. Sir Douglas Hogg does not pay the attention to fashion that his position demands. Ill's sleeves are too long, and his lapels are pettyfogging. “Mr Winston Churchill lacks judgment in clothes. He has played many pa its, but never the part of a welldressed man.”

The article (oiiclades with the hope hat tlio Conservative Government will restore the frock coat to fashion, and ift the silk bat back to power.

COMMUNIST'S TRIAL. LONDON. November 27. The “Times” Riga correspondent says: The trial of I I!) Estlumian Communists at Reval lias ended in the Court finding all guilty of conspiring to overthrow tlu* constitution. by violence, according to the programme prepared by the Third Communist International. The evidence showed the Soviet Legation in Revtil acted as tin intermediary for the transmission of instructions and money from Moscow. The Court condemned 110, including live members of Parliament, and five women, to lifelong penal servitude. Seven were released, hut the remainder sentenced to varying terms of imprisonment. 'I he trial has Lasted for eighteen days.

STORM ON ENGLISH COAST. LONDON. Nov. 27. England has Leon swept Ly a sixty nile gale, causing mneli damage, and here have been terrific seas in the English Channel. The small steamer Hartley burst its latches, and sank. The whole crew. 'Ntept two. were drowned. 'l'lie Channel seanier Dieppe was tratitled in the darkness inside Nowuivon breakwater. A tug. on going to ts assistance, founded, hut its crews .ere rescued. Afterwards, the Dieppe’s IP, passengers were rescued. The steam drifter Presholme was Irivcn ashore on the precipitous coast it Port l.cthon. and she broke up in ('ll minutes. Five of the crew ueie Irowned, while three took refuge on a vtive strewn rock. '1 hey were hcroiallv rescued liv a fisherman named Yaig. a man aged ,2 years, who leapd from rock to rock with a line, and muled them to safety. Many small craft, were in l'eril during tie' storm. There were a niinihei if thrilling res'iics.

DISASTER ON CASPIAN SEA. MOSCOW. Nov. 27. Forty-eight lives and fifteen hundred ishiii"- boats have been lost in a storm m the Caspian Sea. Seven hundred ishing boats are reported to he still Haggling to gain an exit from the re. 7\ special rescue expedition is bong organised.

COLLIERY DISASTER. LONDON, Nov. 28. The “Dailv Express” reports that nine miners lire imprisoned in a flooded mine near Swansea. A sudden inrush of water occurred in Dimvaiit colliery last night. It is believed to have been due to tbe storm and heavy rains. Seventy men succeeded m escapin''. iniinv of them wading waist deep "to the shaft. One miner was brought to the surface dead. Ibe nine men remaining are known to be jn a most inaccessible part of the workings.

and tlieir retreat is cut oil - . Tbe survivors report that black damp is present. Kalis from the rim I *.«»-- lowed tlie Hood. Communication with tbe colliery is most difficult, as tbe wires were blown down by tbe storm.

BRITISH HOUSING. LONDON. Nov. 2i. Mr Neville Chamberlain, addressing Conservative women in London, sail tbe Government did not intend to icpeal Mr Wheatley's Housing Act. but it. preferred tu let the Act bang itsoll with its own rope. ’1 he bousing Pij>bleni. lie said, might be solved speedily bv having bouses produced in enormous numbers out of new materials in factories free from interruption ■>> weather. Samples of such bouses unulif be built throughout the country, so that the women can judge, the resul . It was mentioned that a scheme lot the erection of steel bouses was receiulv advocated by Lord Weir.

WHEAT COMBINE. BARIS, November 27. The Chamber of Deputies has aoptod the Minister. - of Agriculture's P;°' losals to open a credit of lot) million nines for the purpose of ((instituting i permanent stock of wheat, "ball nay be used as a weapon to eounteru t wheat speculators.

MANUFACTURER’S WILL. LONDON. November 2S. Thomas Reginald Clay, a wealthy Liverpool manufacturer, left ten thousand .sterling anil a car to Harry Evans, his cftaiiffeur. who was complete! v surprised. He also left Id teen thousand to bis Doctor, ten thousand each to the manager and under-mana-ger of a branch bank.

FASCISTf LEADER, RESIGNS. [Rf.cters Telegrams.! (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) ROME. November 28.

Balho lias resigned the command of tbe Fascisti Militia. following the disclosure ill the course of bis libel a: turn against the newspaper, -‘Yoea Republican:!.” of letters written by him on the 31st. August, 1923. instructing the prefects to suppress rigorously any attempts at disorder bv nnti-Fascist elements and not to interfere with the police if the latter used tlieir batons freely against tbe enemies of Fascism. The Opposition papers made such an oiitcrv on tbe subject of the letter that Balbo tendered bis resignation to Mussolini whom lie informed the letter was sent as a result of the murder of four Fascists. Mussolini in accepting Ins resignation thanks Balbo for bis devoted services to Fascism.