BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

ACaiBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TRANSVAAL POLITICS. CAPETOWN. Alarcli 10. An interesting situation has been created by tbe Transvaal Provincial Council passing a want of confidence resolution in the adminstrator, Hoflneyer. He refused to resign whereupon all tbe Transvaal members of the Al in istry -Ross, C’reswell, Kemp, Grumbler and all Transvaal members of tbe South African pact, signed a declaration concurring in tile no-confidence vote.. This will be presented to the 1 rentier as a Piovineial Council vote, avowedly, a party vote. Much public interest centers in what llertzog will say to what is tantamount to an ultimatum from his Transavaal supporters. TOWER OF PIBA. ROME, Alarcli 15. The Government Commission reported the inclination of tbe Tower l’isa bad only increased by five millimetres since 1923. Tbe Tower will last another HiOil years according to the present rate of listing. JAPANESE VIEWS. TDK 10, Alarcli 15. The Foreign Office says Japan regal'd- the Geneva protocol as dead, and not requiring further consideration. Japan was not committed but Britain l.cing out, and Italy following, removes tbe necessity for ret ision. Tho ni-xi serious consideration is tbe cjuestjoii of a second Washington Conteieuce. which Japan will welcome pro-, vided the agenda is outlined. Pi i.GRLMS PANIC. DELHI, Alarcli 15. vast crowd of Hindu pilgrims officially estimated at.one and a quarter millions, attending the annual festival ai Ajodliva. a famous holy place at tho font of the Himalayas, were suddenly reduced to panic, as the result of a woman slipping on the wet road. Ihe crowd swayed and broke madly. Eleven women were suffocated and seven others injured. INDIAN ACTION. DELHI, March 15. Tbe Swarajist party in Nagpur Assembly carried amendments reducing Ministers’ salaries. This means a continuation of the Ministerial deadlock, and that the proposed reforms in the Central Province will bo held in abeyance. JAPAN AND SOVIET. TDK ID. March 15. Supplementary Estimates of twentysix million yen include the provision of embassy at Moscow and six other consulates at various points in Siberia, Saghalien and Odessa.

ITALIAN SHOOTING. LONDON, March 15. The “Sunday Express” Geneva correspondent says Luca Box. an Italian ajioil sixty, arrived at Lugano lo,n Sydney, lie walked straight to a simp iM the nrii.cioal street owned by a prosperous brother, where, it is " - j, he drew a revolver, and Without word tired. He surrendered to the nearest gendarme. and said: f waited twenty-eight years and triu el--1,.,1 twelve thousand miles to kill my Unit her. f hope I succeeded. Batei he made a statement al eg>»K the brother had robbed him of- his mheiit anee. and froeed hint to emigrate am then married his fiancee, hearing wlueli in Australia tweny-eight years ago, Luca began to save money for tbe jouruev to have revenge. The b.oth was sent to the hospital, and is osported to recover. BODIES IN boat TDK TO. March lb. V Nagasaki a waterlogged boat, belonging to the Vwnii Maru 3 bodies, was found. It is bettered tin. remainder are lost. tvT'T STEEL HOT SING PROJECT. LONDON, March 10. As a sequel to the Building Trade lions’ opposition to the proposal tlnvt the Govern erect steel houses tutlt , view to hehiii.e to overcome the housing shortage, tlm Ministry for has announced the apfiointment • Court to enquire into the causes <> threatened disputes, m connection ruth On* cow-i ruction of steel houses, m U ' as to the extent to which disputes affecting - budding might preju « national interests by delaying the pio-vi-i'.u „i urgently needed houses and n s! ri.-iii -': o|>pnnniitu*s cif omp’^yuient.