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Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1925, Page 2

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[“Tipi Times” Service.] tallow sales. LONDON, June 17. At the tallow sales 580 cases wero offered and 150 sold, prices wero unchanged. DUCHESS GETS DIVORCE. LONDON, Juno 17. The Duchess of Westminster was granted a divorce on the grounds of the Duke’s misconduct with a married woman at Monte Carlo. The case was removed from the special jury' list and heard as an undefended suit. The Duchess gave evidence that while staving aboard a yacht at Monte, Carlo the Duek angrily declined to cease his associations with the woman and asserted that he would live as he liked. He admitted living with several wornon. Petitioner thereupon left tho yacht.

INDIAN TEA SALES. CALCUTTA, June 17. At the tea sales prices were generally firm at about late rates. There was a good demand for fannings and well made loaf grades with an improving tendency. Ordinary liquoring kinds were, in less demands, while dusts were firm.

IV EM R LEV RED U CTIONS. LONDON, June 17.

As the out-come of representations on the need of cheaper facilities at Wcmhlev the authorities have reduced the combined return rail and admission tickets from London from thirty-three to twenty-four pence.

BLUE NILE DAM. GREAT WORK FINISHED. CAIRO, June 16. The great dam at Makwar, a few miles north of Sonnnr on the Blue Nile has been opened. It cost £'10,000,000. It is expected that the irrigation canals wiil he finished very shortly, enabling cotton-growing at Gezira to get into full swing. | The Gezira plain has an area of 10.000.000 acres of which 3,000,000 are capable of growing cotton of high quality. The irrigation scheme is at present limited to 300,000 acres, hut may he extended to 1,000,000. The scheme comprises the Makwar dam, a main canal (52 miles long, 535 miles of minor canals, 3125 miles of subsidiary canals, and 5(525 miles of field canals. Tho storage reservoir of the dam reaches 58 miles up the river and has a capacity of 22,.80(5,000,000 cubic feet of water. The dam, which is one of the world's largest engineering jobs, is built of granite on a bed of crystalline rock, which outcrops in the river at Makwar. Its length is nearly two utiles and .its maximum height close on 90 feet. The construction of the field canals is being undertaken hv the Sudan Plantations Company. It is proposed to divide the 300,000 acres into 20 stations of about 15,000 acres. The dam will not interfere with tho Assouan barrage, which it outclipses. In Ihe Sudan scheme., only surplus water will he mod, and Egypt will not suffer in any way, but many Egyptians will not believe this, and think that Britain is injuring their country by her work at Makwar.)

UNEMPLOYMENT AT HOME. LONDON, June IG. The latest unemployment figures are disquieting. Registered unemployed number 1.291.200, being 104,672 more than a fortnight ago, and 203.G85 more than a year ago. Labour members of Parliament asked the Government for facilities to discuss unemployment, and also for permission to organise demonstrations throughout the country on June 21. JUDGE DECIDES TO RESIGN. CAIRO, June 17. Erfnne Pasha, the Judge who tried tho Sirdar’s assassins, and who has since received threatening letters, has resigned' on the ground of ill-health. GOING TO TRAVEL EMPIRE. ’Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, June 18. The Hon. L. C. Nr. S. Amery (Colonial Secretary), Mr AV. G. Ormshy Gore (Colonial Under-Secretary) liavo determined to travel the Empire to the utmost during their term of office, according to a speech of tho latter at tho Nigeria Club. In conformity with this decision Mr Ormshv Gore is going to Nigria within the year

AFRICAN OPINION. CAPETOWN. June 18. Commenting on the Anglo-French security pact the ‘C’ape Times” says a word of warning may lie given to the British commentators who arc apt to assume the attitude of the British sympathisers in the Dominions may lie one of automatic acquiescence to the thesis that it is of unquestionable interest to the Dominions to join the British Government in such an agreement with France; hut the very opposite is the truth. There is a very strong body of opinion in the Dominions which is convinced that the tendency of the British Foreign Office to he intensely preoccupied with European affairs is a disastrous tendency from tho point of view of the true welfare of British Empire. It is ludicrous to say the security of France is the main interest of the various communities of the Empire. Mr Chamberlain should realise that opinion in South Africa, without the distinction of race, is strongly against any such committment. °

NEW PROTECTORATE’S CONSTITUTION. CAPETOWN, July 18. The Bill for the new constitution for < tho South West Protectorate provides for an assembly of eighteen members, six of whom will lie nominated by the administrator, subjects permanently reserved by the Union Government to include native affairs, railways ami ; harbours, the position of Union publie servants, c ustoms, excise, judiciary, posts and telegraphs, immigration, hanking, currency, defence. Subjects temporarily reserved are police, civil aviation, education, land settlement and manhood suffrage for British subjects. The Union Government retains tho right to veto any legislation. The assembly possesses wide taxing powers. English and Dutch will be the official languages, hut German will he pe>missible in the high court.

A NEW VACCINE. PARIS, June 17. Professor Calmette, lecturing before the Academy of Medicine, detailed the results of experiments with a new method of vaccination of new-born babies against tuberculosis. The vaccine is known as the Calmette-Guerin anti-baeeilus. and is supported by the Pasteur Institute. Out of 137 children belonging to contaminated famdies, treated during the first half of 1922, with this anti-tulierculosis vaccine, none had died of any illness which was the outcome of tuberculosis, whereas tiie mortality among non-vac-cinated children living under similar conditions in Faris was 32 per cent. The vaccine is administered in a spoonful of milk every forty-eight hours from the third to the tenth day after birth.