BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

f "Trre Times” Service.] LEOPARD AT LARGE. LONDON, Aug. Id. The "Daily Chronicle’s” Paris rnr•espondent reports a leopard escaped -'*' roni the zoological gardens, and has low taken refuge in the Bois tie Boulogne. which covers two thousand A great liunt is in progress viili blood hounds and police before he eyes of thousands of spectators. FREOFEXCY OF ACCIDENTS. PARIS. Aug. 17. An express from the fashionable resort of Deauville reached Nantes when the last coach, containing many English people, was discovered to be on fire owing to the overheating of an axle. The coach was taken off m the nick' of time, and the passengers wero transferred. . . After twelve railway accidents m eighteen days, with a toll of 33 killed and 190 injured, it is not surprising that the travelling public are alarmed and are demanding a thorough HD estimation of the whole system of.signallin7r and of the types of carriages m the third class trains, and also as to the continued gas lighting in some trains. , , . The Minister of Public M orks has already made recommendations to tno Government a* the result of the inquiries into the recent disaster. IRISH DECISION. LONDON. August 17. The “Morning Post’s” Dublin correspondent says:—“Doctois and medical students here are dumbfounded by the Free State Government coming to the decision to break oIF from the British Medical Council. Doctors declare that it will he the death knell of the profession and the ruin cf the medical schools in Ireland. President Cosgrave, however, says that for an important profession in' the Irish Free State to continue having its centre of gravity and its disciplinary headquarters in another country, is incompatible with the Irish Free State’s constitutional -status. It is thus better to face the temporary disadvantages arising from tbe ending of the arrangement.” ASIATIC All! SERVICE. LONDON. Aug. In. The “Daily Telegraph” states The Air Ministry lots come lo an agreement with the Imperial Airways Ltd., (o operate a service between Kantarck. -mi,./ Canal and Karachi (India), which j. , ~f o |7B miles. The agreement provides for a weekly service, both wav-, via Baghdad. Basra. Bush ire, and Pismbirabha.*. The section will he flown i,V , ico 'mi,l a half days, shortening the ioiirnev from Loudon C> India by six davs without night flying. M'e e°mpanv receives a subsidy of :CSi .000 f«"’ *r. 7 years. The Air Ministry is provide V ing eeriaiu aerodromes and facilities^ The new service begins in spring. -ni* the most important advance More civil living began. It is hoped to eon Lie the imperial service to become X self-supporting at the end of five