BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. OABLR ASSOCIATION. BUTTER CONTROL. MERCHANTS UP IN ARMS. LONDON. May 27. In addition to the British producers' opposition to the proposed million subvention to assist in marketing Dominion products, there is growing comment in business circles that Australian and New Zealand producers are increasingly resorting to the creation of hoards to control prices and deliveries of goods. This is believed also to he one ot the grounds for the- criticism of the preferential subvention. It is hinted that this view has arisen at the discussion by the Imperial Economic Committee where it is suggested that they cannot have it both ways.

Leading merchants handling Australian and New Zealand imports have informed ’the Australian Press Association that the producers would do better if they devoted their energies to perfecting the methods ot growing, grading and packing and leave the selling to the firms who have been doing it for many years and have a large connection among huy-

One large buyer of dairy produce pointed out that there must always be a keen struggle between buyer and seller. The former naturally wants to buy goods as cheap as possible and the seller wants to make the utmost. Tl:.* result of this competition must depend mainly on supply and demand. Another merchant regards the de-

M ,* o lor control by the producers as M heritage from wartime food control whereto the British consumers had submitted, for it had the effect ot sihie. to stabilise tlie prices of perishable stabilising ‘ prices hut it was impo.sproduets which were arriving at irregular intervals in variable quantities. not only from the colonies but many much nearer countries.

GOODS BY AIR

HON DON. May !).

Air Vice-Marshal Sir Sefton llranckcr Director of Civil Aviation, has announced that freight-carrying areoplanes are profitably carrying goods at the rate of 4s fid per ton per mile, and that with the new aircraft now being constructed this rate can he reduced to 2s Gd. at which price aircraft may successfully compete with railways, A R VRE DISEASE. LONDON, May 9. The death has occurred at Hull of seaman named Rrusch, who startled the doctors in 1923 by turning, alternately. blue, copper-coloured and black'- t Medical evidence at the inquest disclosed that the man had suffered from “Addison’s disease.’ IN ANCIENT BABYLON. CHICAGO. May 11. Professor Langdou, head of the exedition which is excavating the Kish, in Mesopotamia, reports the hndilig •if - a fish-lmok. It is the oldest over discovered, and it is claimed that it shows the Babylonians used hooks and bait 5000 years ago. The women of Kish were models ot fashion. Objects discovered from female burial mounds in,"hide coppet vanity eases containing manicure sets, pincers, tongs, nail, tiles, and pamt dishes and brushes for colouring then lips.

A FISHERMAN HERO.

BAR IS, May 2,3. Bodies from the wrecked (jumpers’ lifeboats, lost on May 24th, are still ua-hing a shore. The population of several Ib-h.ing villages watched t.l'.e storm, moil they were engulfed. Then they were amazed to see a fisherman put'out alone in a cockleshell boat, and Il.ev tried to dissuade him. from going to certain death. The mail persisted, and, to everyone’s surprise be reached the wreck, And he then returned safely u-jti, five survivors. This fisherman has been nominated >'-> r the Legion of Honour.

MORGAN TRAGEDY. LONDON, May 26

At the inquest on Gwyneth Morgan, evidence was given that Lord Tredegar had provided her with a house at A\ itnliledon. because his home did not agree with her. She was under a specialist’* treatment for liild nerves and general debility. Though often’ depressed, she had not actually threatened to take hot life. It was suggested that she stumbled into the Thuiiie.*,- which is not far from her house, w hile hi M state of nervous prostration, but the Coroner doubted if she could be regarded as normal. In view of the fact that she wore a pendant mended with string and wire. The inquest was adjourned for the purpose of taking the evidence of deceased’s companions. I’REnCH rorJTKH. PARIS, May 2(i. A bitter bill is foreshadowed m an appeal t i the patriotism of the nation issued by AL C’aillaiix (Minister <>£ Finance) who is laying down a regime of many taxes. There will he heavy taxation of Ml incomes, without exception. and all inexorable taxation of wealth, aiming first tit the rehabilitation of France, preparatory to France returning to the gold standard. BARIS, May 26'. M. It-Tger. Treasurer to the Royalist newspaper “Action Franeaise,” while walking in a crowded subway, was fired upon and wounded by a man who used a revolver. M. Berger subsequently died in an hospital. His assailant escaped. The police are of the opinion that he was an anarchist, as they have' been anticipating a recurrence of the e!d Royalist anarchist vendetta. BARTS, May 26. Alarie Bonnefoy has surrendered to the police, declaring that she assassinated Berger, because slq. had a grie~ all e against the Director of “Action Franeaise.” to which she had written alleging that spies were active in the Cote D’Azur. The general opinion is that the woman Is suffering from mental derangement.

THE SIRDAR’S MEKDER. CAIRO, May 26'.

The trial has begun of nine melt charged with being concerned in tint murder of th<? R'te Sirdar. Two students. brothers named Eniat, recounted their participation iff the crime', Another prisoner, Mahmoud R>>sli«d* related his previous confession. Five of the prisoners denied complicity it' the murder. The Sirdar’s chauffeur. Afarsli, said he saw three gunmen close to the car, a, K I two others behind. A bullet penetrated the door and entered hi* leg. A second went through the top of hff* tarbush. and a third grazed the baefc of liis neck. A convict. Hclbawi. who assisted the police to track the perpetrators, told how be had gained the confidence „f the prisoners, and extracted from them tho story of the murder, and induced them to tie*, thus lending to their arrest. The heating was adjourned