BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

tUCTRALUN AND H.r. UADLB ASSOCIATION, SINGAPORF. EXi ’F.NDITT'KK. LONDON, June 11. It was announced in the Commons, that excluding the cost of the preliminary survey and engineering expenses. the Government had so far expended £72.0:0 on the Singapore Naval Base. ARABS SENTENCED. I BAGHDAD, June 11. Two Arabs tried in connection with the attack on the motor convoy in March were sentenced to death. THE colonial office. LONDON. June 11. Mr Baldwin said the Colonial Ollier organisation would include the creation of a Secretary of Slate for the Dominion- and a Parliamentary Cnder-Sec-retary. > STRIKERS SEIZE POWER lIOFSE. ONE KILLED. (Received this day at 10.2., a.m.) II A I JEAN (Nova Scotia). June 1.1. After a pitched battle at (dace Bay. ‘last.img upwards <;f fifteen minutes, the striking f'nited Mine Workers ol Amcrii a charged the power house Empire Steel Corporation on Viednosduy in order to save the < < •:> I mines from further Hooding and rally this afternoon the miners were in complete charge of the plant. One matt was killed and another shot in the stomach. Several of the company's police were injured.

The power hou.se was closed a week ago. when the strikers ejected the maintenance ir.cn, following on the company’s refusal to accept the lion. James Murdoch. Minister ol Labour, as Arbitrator. To-day’s incident is the lirst act of serious violence reported during thestrike, involving twelve llnui-and men which has now entered the fourth lllolltll.

PRIVATE HOTEL TRAGEDY. (Received this day at 10.2 d a.m.) LONDON. June 11. A double tragedy occurred in the early morning at Boimmleigh private hotel in Streatham. A maid louud the proprietor, James Carlv. aged (ill, dead in his bedroom and bis wife, aged At. seriously injured in her room. Both had their heads battered in. All the gas jets on the ground floor were previously louud fully turned oil. The .guests would soon have been in danger of asphyxiation'. The dead man's supposed brother, Dryder Carlv. aged forty-live, was found dead hanging from a beam of the hotel garage. The two men shared a room, in the basement, Mrs Carlv having a room to herself. It was later discovered that Dryden Carlv was not James’ brother, but is believed (o be a .South African, lluteliniau, who fought in the Great War and suffered from nerves. It is suggested that he first tried to commit suicide by gas poisoning.

AN OLD PORTRAIT. LONDON, June 11. Sir F. Diivoon lias purchased for fifty thousand sterling a portrait which was picked up cheaply at tin obscure Brailford dealers two years ago and which since achieved the reputation of being a luagnitii cut l!i aibramlt sell-portrait. ItESI.GNAT.r.ONS. LONDON. June 1.1. It is understood Mr F. 11. (oiler, resigned because be could not accept the Chairmanship of the- Food Council, which would have no statutory power or authority. It is reported Collet- is likely to take up an important position with Lever Brothers.

'Jc. M. .Mnlynetix. assistant Bishop elect of Melanesia tendered his dismissal service this morning at St. Martins in the Field, and afterwards spoke at the Socitey's annual meeting.

PREFERENCE FOR SUGAR. LONDON. June IF The House of Commons, during the course of a night-long debate and after t lit' rejection of various Opposition amendments, adopted the customs duty on bops, and an Imperial preference on sugar. FAILURE OF A SI ORBING COY. (Received this day at, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, June 12.

A meeting of the creditors of Gould ' disclosed that in 1915 he began with the investment of £SOO in a shipping company. Later. he formed Gould .Limited, shiphrokors, and afterwards other concerns, till in 1020. he nmalg- I a mated them as the Could Steamship and Industrial Limited, of which he became the manager at a salary of i ten thousand and a percenter ol the ! profit. The company bought out a Stockton firm for £ I .’Jot)J r o'>- !| nd after the 192“ shipping slump. Gould, j in order to meet the decline in business, deposited securities with the banks for the purpose of raising capital, hut filially lue banks refused advsmccs. Gould computed the assets ol the company in 1920 were worth five mil- ■ lions, hut were now worth only tollO. 000. His own personal liabilities "eir £410,000. and his assets consisted ol shares which he could not value, also arrears in salary. The meeting appointed a trustee. THE NIAGARA. SUVA. June 12. Arrived Niagara, she will sail at six this evening for Honolulu. POLITICAL. LONDON, June 11. The Australian Press Association understands that the Hon L. C. M. S. A more (Colonial Secret ary.) concentrates on Dominion affairs, and Mr Onuslev Core takes over Colonial matters. Lord Clarendon is being freely mentioned ns the new Parliamentary I n-dci-Seoretarv who is expected to become Chairman of the Overseas Settlement t ommit tee. . 1„ the Commons Mr Baldwin said the Government had concluded that the existing organisation ol the < Menial Ollhe was no longer in correspondence with the actual constitutional position of the Empire and "as mauequate to the extent ami variety ol work thrown thereon. It tell siior, more particularly in distinguishing between the work of the consultation and co-operation with the Dominions and administrative work of protectorates. It "as proposed, therefore, that the conduct of the Dominion affairs be under a new Secretary of Slate tor Dominion affairs with his own particular Under-Secretary, who would also 1 act as chairman of Overseas Settlement. and its own permanent Under--1 Secretary. For the sake of convenience the new Secretaryship would continue to be vested in Mr Emery and be housed in the Colonial Office. Replying to Mr MacDonald who I asked whether the Dominions had a creed to the change. Mr Baldwin said . the Governniut had Ihhmi eomniumea- , ting with them, throughout and he h0p,,1 the matter would he discussed on ■ the Colonial Office vote. OBITUARY. 3 LONDON, June 11. Obituary —Bishop of Oxford.