BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. C.ABLK ASSOCIATION. A LINER ASHORE. AAISTERDAAI, March 9. The steamer Soerakarta, cn route to Java is stranded on the Hook of Holland. It is feared she will become a total loss. The steamer, which is a seven thousand tomier, was stranded in a blinding snowstorm, with a high sea running. Lifeboats failed to reach her. Then a tug succeeded, but the hawser became entangled in the screw of the tug which capsized. Eight of her fifteen of a crew were lost. Other tugs and lifeboats olfered help, but the crew of the Soerakarta refused to leave until late in tho following afternoon, when the position became hopeless. Lifeboats then took off forty-eight men leaving the caplain and officers still aboard. The tug stoker went mad with fright and jumped into the sea.

.JOCKEY AS PREACHER. PARIS, Alarch 0. Jack Jennings, who headed the winning jockeys’ list for France in 1924, and rode the second horse in the Ascot Gold 'Cup, appeared in a new role yesterday, when, dressed in a surplice, he preached in an English Protestant Church at Afaison La Fitte, the racing suburb. He denounced Sunday racing, and condemned the devotion of the Sabbath almost exclusively to recreation and amusement.

Simultaneously, a prominent Dominican, preaching in another suburb, advocated that the rising generation should devote their Sunday afternoons to open air life and sports.

YOUNG AUSTRALIANS IN ITALY. LONDON, Alarch 10. At Aldan University students, wearing their gay faculty caps, and chanting specially composed songs about Australia, and waving banners, tumultuously welcomed the Young Australian Touring Party. The streets wore blocked by crowds, and the shop-keep-ers became so alarmed at the rowdy welcome that they lowered their shutters as the students led the Australians m procession irom the Railway Station to the Casa Di Giovanni, where the Prefect of Milan, gave a reception to the visitors. The Students replied to the Australians’ “coo-ees” with the Fascist rally call. The Australians later marched to the Piazza Marino, where Senator ATangigialli, who is the Mayor of Milan, delivered a speech, welcoming the young Australians. SIR. J. ALLEN. LONDON, Alarch 9. Sir James Allen has gone to Scotland to engage in propaganda for tlio purpose of inducing an increased stream of Scottish settlers to New Zealand. Ho will address the Geographical 'Society, on Tuesday, and Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday.

EGYPTIAN DISCOVERY. LONDON, Alareh 10. The “ Daily Express ” Cairo correspondent reports a sensational discovery"" rivalling Tutankhamen’s tomb, which has been made by the llavard University excavators 'at Gizeli. '1 hey have found a shaft filled with cement, , in which they dug down eighty feet. There they have revealed a Fourth Dynasty tomb, that of King Snefru, tho father of Cheops, the builder of the (treat Pyramid. The tomb is intact. The objects are of the greatest value. IRISH BOUNDARY QUESTION. LONDON, Alarch 10. The •Morning Post’s” Belfast ccrrospoiideut expresses the opinion that . vhe real object of the Ulster general (.lection is an appeal to the country he- __ lore the Irish Boundary Ccniniission’s report i.s handed in. thus strengthening the hand of t-lie Ulster Government in dealing with the boundary Issue. Tho Boundary Commission is now tailing oral evidence in Ulster, aaul it is nearing the time when it must pronounce its findings. The Ulster Government’s election slogan will he: - “Not an Inch.”

THE HOUR'S CASE. DETAILS OF VERDICT. LONDON, March 9. In the Hobbs case, -Mr Justice Avory, in summing up, said that the jury was only concerned to determine whether Hobbs was a party to a conspiracy. If they concluded that a conspiracy existed between Newton and Captain Arthur in view ot Newton’s admissions, he' was an accomplice in a wicked conspiracy, and he had sworn a false affidavit. The jury would bo unable to act on bis evidence, except where it was corroborated by testimony which implicated Hobbs. It was much easier to deal with a rogue who admitted that he was a rogue than with a hypocrite who cloaks bis sins under a transparent affectation ot honesty. If Newton’s evidence was true, then Hobbs was a party to the conspiracy, from the very outset.

Hobbs was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud, and of receiving cheques, knowing them to have been obtained as the result of a lonspiracv, but was not guilty of stealing tho cheques.

DOMINION STUDENTS’ UNION AT

home. LONDON, -March 9 Porrit-t was elected President and Shull Secretary of the Dominion Students’ Athletic Union, which was formed at a conference on Saturday. Iho Executive, which includes representatives of ail the big Universities in tho United Kingdom, will arrange athletic contests against the Achilles Club, and the English Universities, and the Union is t" play tennis at Wimbledon against a British team in the summer. Many Australians and New Zealanders are likely to participate. A SOCIETY DIVORCE. LONDON. March 10. Lady Alexandria Paget, daughter of the ninth Duke of Leeds, has obtained a decree nisi against Sir Cecil Paget, m, the grounds of his misconduct. She gave evidence that her husband when returning from Franco in 191" confessed to another attachment and expected her to accept the position in a generous spirit. Finally her husband left hor in Hl-4.

animals of the past. LONDON, March 10. That gigantic animals roamed twenty or thirty thousand years ago over what is now ‘the busiest part of London has been proved by the discovery, during excavations in Leadenhall Street for Lloyd’s new headquarters of the foreleg of a woolly rhinoceros and the big lioiio ot m nmstoilon.