BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[“Tn* 'i.’imeb” Service.] QUESTIONS IN COMMONS. LONDON, July 14. In the Commons, questioned as to the possibility of compelling advertisers and retailers to put a prominent label on non-Empire goods, Sir Cunliff'e Lister said it was impossible to pass legislation during the present session, but the question was let, carefully considered.

Replying to a question the Undersecretary of the l’ost Office, suid it was hi- hope to purchase various properties near Grimsby tor a transmitting station and at Skeyness for a receiving station tor the Beam system of wireless with Australia and India which would be completed at an early date. Orders for the erection of tlie stations wore already contracted for. MOTORING RECORDS. LONDON, July 14. Tim motorist, Thomas established two u'orhl’s records at Brooklands covering one hundred miles at an average of 110.47 miles per hour and 1221 yards at an average of 110.04 miles per hour.

DR. MANNIN. LONDON. July 14. \ .-pei ia 1 meeting of the Sligo Corporation rejected by eleven votes to nine tbe proposal to etilorre a resolution passed in 1020 conferring the freedom of the town on Dr. Mannix boejiust. of his special services ot the Irish Republic. A Councillor led opposition to granting freod'otu. declaring the proposal introduced polities; therefore it should not he entertained.

COMEDY OF A WILL. I»AUIS. .1 uty 13. A tragic comedy was disclosed in the prosecution of a mother and her son. who were charged with destroying the hitter's dead wife's will. Fraysee, a cattle dealer, and his mother went to ~ Notarv's office to learn the terms of Ids' wife's will. They were astonished to find that it contained a clause disinheriting Fraysee. In an angry scene rhe muitior >mltionly snatched tlie wilt from the Notary and gave R to ,ie . r son who crumpled it up, put it in his mouth, and swallowed it before the astonished lawyer was able to prevent him. Fraysee and his mother wctV then arrested.

KOLAI’ORE CUP. LONDON, July 14. At the Bislev meeting the Ivolapore t up was won by ( anada with a score ~f |(ipp. The Mother Country scored U!<)7. Rhodesia 108!) and India 1006.

LORD MILNER’S ESTATE. LONDON, July 14. Lord Milner left U 35,868. decision REVERSED. LONDON, July 14. The First Division of the Court- of Edinburgh reversed Justice Ashmore’s decision in favour of the Bank of England. malting to Wilson’s transferred bonds in which the question of nuili or otherwise of David Anderson cropped no. The Lord President emphasised that Wilson for two years had not signed papers, the signature in winch was a loigned hand.

SALE OF RACEHORSES. LONDON, July 14

Eric Connelly bongth for nine thousand guineas the racehorse Questor at tlie sale of Sir Edward Tlulton’s stables. T'i'e total received to-day was K 11.2711 guinea-. .1. P. Arthur bought Ea-tern Monarch Irom Park Lodge stable.- for two thousand guineas and he goo- to Australia.

WEMBLEY. lM NOON. July 14. The Imperial Economic Committee -pent a day at Wembley, inspecting the An-traliaii. New Zealand, Canadian. and South African Pavilions. In :1m Australian Pavilion, the members heard a large party of public school hoys repeat a nar cry that is now being ! a tight daily in the pavilion to similar

un ties, *, iz,, ‘'Keep your own money 'll vour own Empire! ’ ’I be Committee certainly found the Australian and N'ew Zealand Pavilions tlie liveliest at Wembley, where even a reduction in the combined railway entrance charges has not revived the daily attendances. \ daily prize of £IOO for the nearest 'tioss to the daily attendance is the latest device to retrieve live exhibition’s fortunes.

In the Empire Essay competition promoted bv the Society of Women Journalists, James Bertram, of Oamiru. won the I toys’ prize of £lO.

EMIGRANTS EOR X.Z. LONDON. July 14. Emigration to New Zealand is most active. The llororata takes (110, being mostly families, with a number of farm workers and thirty lxiys under the sheepowners fund ; also eleven public school hoys. The Tainui takes 280, including forty domestics and the Runtime one hundred. The Migration Ollieer has returned from a tour of Northern Ireland and is impressed with the possibilities ol obtaining most desirable migrants from there. LONDON, July 14. The aliendauee at the New Zealand pavilion eiiiema at Wembley has topped the 10l 1,(1011 mark.

KOREAN FLOODS. TOKIO. July 15. The press reports from Korea continue to describe the extensive damage the Hoods have done to tile Keissodo province. In the absence of official information it is impossible to verify the accuracy of the reports. EGYPTIAN PRESS. LONDON. July 14. ’The Cairo correspondent of the

“Morning Post ’’ reports that no Arabic newspapers in Egypt will appear on Thursday, as a protest against a new press law. under which the publication of any untrue reports will he punishable by the imprisonment of the editor and the suppression of the newspajier con: (Tiled.

The Premier of Egypt, Fiwar Pasha, has arrived in London. WARSHIPS to be built. LONDON. July 15. The “Daily Telegraph’s” l’arliaminxtary correspondent foreshadows tl™ the Government will lay down five cruisers this year, involving only a small amount immediately, hut an expenditure of five millions next year. The full naval building programme probably will he eigheen cruisers, spread over three years.

The “Daily Express” says that five cruisers will be laid down this year and seven each year in future for live years. All will he ten thousand tenners.