BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

IUMTBALIAN AND N.Z. EABI.E ASSOCIATION. THE NEW wool. PACKLONDON. April 1, Mi Eairbairn presided at the Loudon conference of the Bradford wool manufacturers and representatives of tho colonial wool growers, with a. view to inspecting and discussing Akroyd’s new all-word throe iluindired-weiglit quick, designed to meet the objections to the five hundredweight pack, its cabled on November 1-1. 'File growers’ representatives present including the Australians, Mr Bush, Colonel Hill, and Air A. J. C. Webb, approved in principle of the adoption of the new pack, subject to satisfactory financial arrangements. The Bradford manufacturers will collier shortly to consider what offers can lie made to the growers towards meeting the additional test of the new pack. .Meantime samples of the now pack are being cent to Australia. New Zealand' and South Africa for the inspection of the growers. NAVAL SUPREMACY. LONDON, April 2. The Duke of Northumberland, presiding at a dinner given by the Institute of Naval Architects, said it was hoped that tho Dominions, in time, would doveloi) their own navies, so that the Navy of the British Empire would soon again enjoy an unchallengahlo

supremacy. Air w. C. Bridgeman (First Lord of the Admiralty’) emphasised the danger of alllowing the British naval position to deteriorate to such an extent that it might be. difficult to restore it to a

position of s:\icty. Sir .1. Cook (Australia) pointed out that five million pounds worth of naval orders bad recently been placed by Australia. It was equivalent to forty millions being spent by Great Britain.

GIRL STABS MAN

LONDON, April 1. Catherine Thorpe was sentenced to death at Leeds for murdering her married lover, who was a pianist in a jazz band. She was strongly recommended to mercy by the jury, who included two women. Thorpe received the word “guilty” with a groaning wail. * The prisoner put her hands before ■#_ her eyes to shut out the picture of tho black-capped Judge as be pronounced the sentence. Black-gowned'wardresses held her up to receive the sentence, the girl seeming barclv conscious. Finally sin- fell prone, and was carried out by a warder and two wardresses. The court meantime was crowded with woooinc; women. Evidence was given that Thorpe believing that another woman was paying the musician attentions, stabbed him as she told the police “because I loved him so!” _____________