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Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1925, Page 3

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lU#TRALUN AND N.r.. GABLE ASSOCIATION. X-RAY .MARTYRS’. I 'A UIS, January 8. The chemist de .Malander died from injuries received during X-ray experiments. He was assistant to de Mis- [ trims who recently died .from the same cause. FI Mi NCI I I'LESS COMMENT. BA IMS. January 8. Newspapers comment on the Allied Finance Ministers Conference, suggests M. Clemente! is endeavouring In induce Mr Churchill to mollify his attitude of strict adherence to the Balfour note and to adopt the more accommodating note from Lord Curzon of 11th. August, 1928, namely a statement that the amount France would still owe, if Britain were to deduct from the annuities under the 'Dawes plan her share of twenty-two per cent . The papers also declare Messrs Churchill, Logan, and Kellogg discussed a compromise as the solution of AngloAmerican friction. They suggest if the Bank of England obtains from America a milliard gold dollars with a view to equalising Anglo-American exchanges the British Government will raise no further objections to American claims in regard to reparations and will adopt a more generous attitude towards her debtors.

HIGH COMMISSIONER’S STATUS. (Received this day at 11.2 d a.m.) LONDON, January 8. The Government is introducing legislation in the Budget to provide for the High Commissioners status (c-albed on December Kith) which will occasion a debate on the whole question of Dominion representation and London and Empire consultations. LONDON TO INDIA BY AIRPLANE. DELHI. January 8. Bnincker and other airship experts in conference with the Government of India agreed to run a trial airship from London to India in 1927. The results would determine the establishment of a regular mail and passenger service under private management. A mooring mast, either at Karachi or Bombay would he erected with the extension of services of fast aeroplanes to Calcutta. ••* STILL CORRESPONDING. (Received this dav at 11.20 a.m.) LONDON. January 8. Correspondence between the Imperial Government and the Dominions in regard to the proposed special Imperial Conference lias not concluded and no decision has yet been reached whether or not if is possible to hold the Conference.

AN EXPLANATION. ROME, January 8. A meeting of eighty opposition deputies under the chairmanship of Signer Dccesare approved of the text of an appeal to the country, explaining the opposition's reasons lor pensevering in their present proceedings. A ST. 'PAUL'S EUND. LONDON, Jan. 8. The Dean of the Chapter ol St. Paul’s, in a letter to the ”'! imes” states that they have no surplus funds for the work of making the Cathedral safe, and they seek the co-operation ol the “l imes” in v.hat they hope may l,e a linal effort to safeguard Ft Paul's tor generations to come. In response to this appeal the “Times” lias started a St. Paul’s Fluid and has headed it with a donation 1 of £IOOO. BOTTOM LEY CRITICALLY ILL. LONDON, Jan. 8. Horatio Boltomley is critically ill at Maidstone Gael. ARCHBISHOP MANXLVK .MOTHER. LONDON. Jail. 8. Obituary The mother ol Arrhbishop Mannix. She is a nonagenarian. ANOTHER EM DEN. (Received this day at 10.2 A a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 8. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent says that Germany's iirst battleship built since her defeat lias been launched. It is a small cruiser named the Gulden.

Admiral Zenker, in the baptismal speech, said the name was ol high signilicalice, because, first the hmden was commanded by a man of coo! judgment. hold in the execution of inexhaustible resourcefulness, unilagging in action and imllinehing even on the last outpost, whose crew followed him to the end. and who was the exponent of blameless chivalry even to his enemies. Me, would live in naval history as one of the greatest c ruiser commanders who had sailed the seas. The widow of Von Mueller broke a bottle of champagne over the cruiser’s bows. JAPS PERCH ASK A Kill) I* I. AN MS LONDON, Jan. 8. Japan has purchased ten big German Rolirbaeh all "metal seaplanes, equipped with twin IJolls-Uoyce engines, totalling 7000 horsepower. They are living from Denmark to Japan, across the Russian waterways, in April. KORY,'AY’S MONARCHY ROOTLESS LONDON. Jan. 3. The Norwegian newspaper “Daghladet” complains that King Naaltun and Queen .Maud have spent two ( hristmascs at Sandringham and also against, their absence from the ceremony of the c hanging of the name of Christiania to Oslo. The paper also complains at the Crown Prim e’s ski-ing holiday in Sw itc.erland ami adds that the monarchy now stands rootless as it has little connection with the Norwegian people. farm KRS’ CONFERENCE. CAPETOWN, January 8. A conference ol South Alrioau, Australian and New Zealand delegates of the Overseas Farmers’ Federation was held at Johannesburg ill camera and discussed the objectives of the Fedora - lien. It was decided the next conleieiice he hold in Australia.