BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

iUSIRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TRADE WITH GERMANY. LONDON, January 12. The “ Daily Telegraph ” diplomatic correspondent says that from January .10 tin the Rieehstag confirms the Anglo-German commercial treaty, British goods will have the most-favoured-nation treatment, and also goods from those of the Dominions which concede the principle. BIG PROFITS. LONDON, January 12. Air AYargrave, presidinglat the annual meeting of the Rolls Royee Company, pointed out that those who had invested in the Company in 1019 had had their capital doubled by bonus shares in addition to a dividend of 8 per cent., yearly on the doubled holdings. RISE IN STERLING. LONDON, January 10. Exchange in New York is quoted at 4 dollars 7!U cents. The improvement is, chiefly due to further buying from New York, whose financiers are desirous of seeing the gold standard restored in Britain. FRENCH POLITICS. PARIS, January 13. At. J’ainlevc. has lieen re-elected President of the Chamber of Deputies by 313 to 24 votes. The Opposition abstained from voting.

The Premier, A!. Harriot, for the first time since his illness, attended a Cabinet meeting, at which AI. Clementel made a. statement dealing with the progress of the Finance Conference. AI. Herriot subsequently attended the 'Chamber. TUTANKHAMEN'S TO A 18. CAIRO. January 13. It is understood that Air Howard v Carter lias not been given the rights to the antiquities discovered, but will receive remuneration from the Egyptian Government for his labours. ■CAIRO, January 14. Air Carter hopes to open the tomb on February 23. His license is substantially the same as in 1924, but the Egyptian Government has now under-*' taken to allow Almina, Countess of Carnarvon, a choice of the duplicates found in the tomb, provided their abstraction does not cause scientific damage. If the Government decides to reserve Tutankhamen’s mummy for Cairo, it will do the work itself in order -p* to avoid criticisms levelled against Mr Carter. DOAI INTON REPRESENTATION. f CANADIAN OPINION. OTTAAV.A. Jan. 13. The Montreal “Star” commenting on the unanimous refusal of the Dominions to participate in an Imperial Conference at London on the Peace Proto- . col. declares: “It now only remains for the British Government to announce that the Conference has been abandoned. It was a blunder. Even if a Conference had been held, the real need of the Empire to-day is to discover some permanent continuing method of consultation, whereby common action could readily and easily he obtained. The next Imperial Conference called should not be summoned to discuss any protocol or to determine any simple .specific Imperial problem, hut to devise machinery whereby the spasmodic Imperial Conferences nill he ivndcicd unnecessary, and assuring that the continuous growth of Ike Foreign Policy of the United Nations ( of the British Empire shall not be checked by misunderstandings, prejudice .or sectionalism. Australia has already made an important step in this direction.” MILLIONAIRE SHOOTS HIMSELF. LONDON. Jan. 13. Though known locally as “The Australian Millionaire,” Henry Pearce who shot himself with a revolver in the historic mansion of Clmumlrye, near Kltliam. appears to have belonged to South Africa. His widow gave evidence that he was a heavy drinker. He was attended by a nurse whose presence she (witness) resented. The old mansion was. partly gutted by fire in March last. The deceased and the nurse lived together in the ruins during lie rebuilding, while witness \.as forced to reside elsewhere. She l*olievcd that her husband had domestic worries. The house cook gave evidence that Pearce had told her that he had tried gas poisoning unsuccessfully. PACIFIC CABLE SURPLUS. LONDON. Jan. 14. The Pacific Cable Board’s annual ioport as at .March cist ’ I shows the nett surplus over expenditure amounted to C 134,082, which the Board is o c opinion should he devoted to the Reserve and Renewal Fund. This now exceeds two millions, which, it is anticipated .will he adequate to carry out the scheme of duplication. The total international traffic was 11.200,000 paying words, which is a record. y K('CI.ESI.AS fIC’S CRITICISM. ' LONDON, Jan. 14. Cardinal limine, speaking at l’reiniei'land in Whitechapel, expressed Ill’s regret that the Labourites had allowed their party to he called the Socialist Party. Labour, he said, was one thing, while * Socialism was something entirely different. There was no doubt that class warfare was contrary to Christianity, and to the teaching of the Catholie Church. AVAR GRAVES. LONDON, January 13. The means taken to ensure the pernianciicv of Imperial (Oineteries and memorial-, throughout the world and some oi the difficulties associated therewith, weic enumerated by AlajorGeneral Sir Fabian Ware, in a lecture at Birmingham. lie stated the headstones were immovable. embedded in concrete, with / trenches behind each row of graves. The greatest difficulty arose in Galipoli, because neither a great cross of sacrifice, nor upright headstones were suitable for the conditions governing the cemeteries in that area. , Sir Fabian Ware said the Gallipoli iriavis Mere marked by slabs hearing the same particulars as the headstones elsewhere, except regimental badge. In addition to those on whose graves headstones could he erected, there were missing and dead numbering half a million. Of these, twelve hundred names were engraved on a column afc Cape 1 Idles, which was one hundred feet high.