BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

lUSTBALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. BILKS DECLARE A HOLY WAIT PARIS. May 11. Well-informed cable sources declare there is no combined Franco-Spanish plan of campaign ill Morocco contemplated. Abdel Krim is reported to have declared a holy war. and to have sent his brother to Sheshattn. in the Spanish /.one. lor the purpose ot raising levies amen tin* local Cebala tribesmen. I.ASCKLI.KS’S SCICIDK. LONDON. May 11. At tiie inquest on I Inn Mr I .as relics (whose suicide was cabled on May 10th), a verdict was returned o| suicide while lemporarih insane. The e\ idetu e showed that he had sulleren mentally for years. lie prohablj feared a total breakdown, and suicided to avoid it.

AT WEMBLEY EXHIBITION. The New Zealand ollire and the New Zealand Pavilion at Wembley arc closing while Thursday’s service in coniiee(iin with the burial ol the late Mr Massey is in progress. At present the (lags are half-masted at Wemblev and all New Zealand offices in London. BANK BATE. LONDON, May 11. The Associated Australian and New Zealand Banks have reduced the selling rales on New Zealand drafts and mail transfers to IDs per cent premium, on rahl“ trail-lets to los: and the buying rates on demand to 10s per cent discount; thirty days 21s .‘id per cent : sixty days :12s lid per cent, and •111 days -t.Ts 0.1 per cent.