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Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1925, Page 3

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[Australia & X.Z. Cable Association.) LAIIOI’H AND EM,HI HE. LONDON, June .1)0. An interesting development, in connect ion with the changed view of the Labourites regarding Empire ali'airs is .Mr Ramsay .MacDonald's invitation to a number of His most influential colleagues to join a private committee in order to draw no a common Labour policy regarding preference, migration and oilier Empire problems.

COMMERCE CONGRESS. LONDON, Julv 80

The Australian delegates who hav returned from the Brussels’ Confer once of Chambers of Commerce, wer favourably impressed b\- its represeo tativc character, and the work aeeom plished. They consider that one of tin most notable factors at the conferonci was the personal contact with dele gates from various nations, which i most valuable in discussing interna tional questions.

TIMBER COAL SUIT. LONDON. June JO,

The Judicial Commit toe ol the Privy' Council has dismissed with costs tin New Zealand appeal case Waim.ihi Sawmilling Company versus Waitin' Timber Company. The case was bean by the Appeal Court at Wellington to the second of July. 1033.

IT ALLAN MURDER. HOME. June 30. A typewriter traveller, named Oregon. suspected of embezzling 55,00!! lira from his employers, became engaged to the linn’s typist. He took her to a cinema show, at which lie Irequcully hurst out into hysterical laughter. Next morning his landlady louud in (.regori s bedroom a trunk from which blood wa> 00/.i llg, Ti;e police expected to find his fiancee's body, but instead there was the mangled corps ol a fellow traveller s wife. «hom he had lured to his room, and murdered for her diamond earrings, which he pawned for a trilling sum. H KIWI! AT rt>N Cl RR ENT IKS SLUMP. (Received this day at 9. In a.m.) LONDON, July 1. Reparations currencies slumped heavily under the lead ol the Italian lire which has depreciated to Ml. The French franc is 108.00 and the Belgian franc is 100.30. ABDEL K RIM'S OFFENSIVE. ,PARIS. July 1. A communique from Fez slates l! Hill's are developing an offensive on a large scale against the French sectors in the centre and cast, invad the I'Temh lines at several points. French aeroplanes are active. They bombed a |>ost eoininaiided by Abel Krini’s brother at Bowmen. CHEEK POLITICS. ATHENE. July 1. The Assembly passed by 180 to II a vote of coiilidoMoc in General Pangalos.