BRITISH & FOREIGN NEVIS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 April 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEVIS

[Reuters Telegrams.] PRINCE’S EXPERIENCES. f LI OH IN (Nigeria), April 17. Owing to the fact that the local Emir is the only great chief in the Northern Provinces unable to attend the ceremonies at Kano, the Prince of Wales halted al Lioriu, one hundred and 70 miles north-east of l.ago.s, where lie was > enthusiastically welcomed. The station 1 was gaily decorated. Mr Hodge, the President, erected a post hearing the arms of Magdalen College (the Piime’s College). A (plaint local touch mis added l,y the natives’ juju, which are fierce looking figures affixed to railings behind. LONG-LIVED LABOURER. .MADRID, April 15. An agricultural labourer has died at ( lianLada, aged Ilf!. He was in possession of all his faculties, had a full set of teeth and abundant hair. He had never been ill. He lived for many years on potatoes and milk. RUSSIAN TOWN DESTROYED. (Received this day at 9 a.in.) WARSAW, April 17. | l’yki. near here, has been entirely wiped out by fire. Four thousand people are homeless, The buildings destroyed include a three hundred year old synagogue, GERMAN FLOATING DOCK. ißeeeived this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON. April 17. The Admiralty is auctioning an immense German floating dock surrendered under the Versailles Treaty. It is capable of lifting a forty thousand tonner and possibly it will he resold , Germany because there are no restrictions on the nationality of the purchaser. LORD JKLLICOE’K API'OI.NTMEN 7 ’. LONDON, April 17. The “Daily Standard” regrets that(LordJellicoe has joined the Board ai the Bank of New Zealand and sugges that he is not specially fitted to j anticipate in the Board’s deliberntun The paper asks what would he thought if a company director were appointed to. command a battleship. CAILLAL'X IN THE WAY. PARIS, April 17. AT. Lourlieur has refused the Ministry of Commerce, because he did not want to join a- Cabinet containing If. Caill.iux who announced that the financial situation was much more serious than he exported, necessitating the greatest sacrifices throughout by France, TARIFF HITCH. OTTAWA. April (i. The Premier stated in the House of Commons that lie understood the Australian tariff would ho changed in certain particulars, and, pending an agreement, this might necessitate similar changes in the Canadian tariff. He believed action had already been taken hv Australia, hut in Canada the matter was still one inr negotiations. FATAL QUARREL. PARIS, April 111. A long filed between two farmers, named Roc and Roulois. near Lavaur. culminated in a most bitter (juaiirl. after which Bmilois retired to his house, and. from his window he totally shot Roc. Madame Roc and her sister then retaliated and blew out his brains.