BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 September 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia * N.Z. Cable Association.] AMUNDSEN'S AIRSHIP. LONDON. Sept. 11. The -‘Daily Telegraph's'’ Rome correspondent states: Amundsen's contract, for the purchase of the Italian dirigible shows that the Italian Govcrnniont will eo-operate in an impu-it-;iut degree to ensure the expedition. Besides supplying a pilot and crew, the Government has stipulated the region to he covered. It has goal anted the delivery of the airship at a Polar base, and his undertaken the establishment of supply stations and provision materials. It even proposes to erect hangars at several points in the A retie. LONDON. Kept. 11. The “Daily Express's” Geneva correspondent states Dr Nansen, interviewed. said he was emu inced the next aerial expedition to the Pole would so. cecd. He had always believe.! t h aeroplane was unsuitable, because it could not carry wireless like an airship. He added: “I shall probably accompany Amundsen on his next trip t" see the regions that 1 visited oil foot in former years." LONDON. September 10. The "Duilv Telegraph’s” Paris corresoondeut sm: The International Kiiirilua list Congress has decided to open a competition, offering prizes, toi the const ruction of instruments to enable the shades of the departed to communicate easily with the In iitg. The Congress also proposed to conserve the powers of mediums by keeping them m Spiritualist hostels, thus relieving them of material cares. Hit Congress decided that many mediutm work too hard to gain a livelihood that their peculiar spiritualist gilts ait largely wasted. JERUSALEM. September > L One hundred convicts made a das! for liberty in the centre of the city Troops tiled, killing seven and wound ing eight. Thirty escaped. Heavy Erem-li reinforcements an pressing towards Sueida. LONDON. September 10.

Australia and New Zealand Irate twenty-four out ol tour hundred exhibits hung at the International Exhibition at the London Salon ol Photography, including those o! the New "Zealanders. Miss Gorlu-k and Mr H. Coze. The Pakelia. bound lor Hamburg collided ill a fog with a German steam or near the Lightship EUe. Her boats and deck were damaged, ."-he arrive, safely at Hamburg. DELHI. September 10. A bill has been read a second tinn in" the Calcutta Legislative Assembly regualting tlie use of firearms and dealing with riotous crowds. ~ CAPETOWN, September 10. The prophet mentioned in a cable

• on August 22nd has fled to Northern Rhodesia, on the approach of troops. The District Commissioner arrested 40 of his disciples, and found seventy corpses. Front the style of the village built by the sect, it appears certain that they are adherents to the Watchtower Sect.

POOR LAW RELIEF. I LONDON. Sept. 10. The West Ham Board of Poor Law Guardians have passed a resolution reiterating their refusal to reduce the amount of outdoor relief from liitynine shillings to forty-live shillings weekly, its they are requested to do lty the .Minister of Health. the resolution was carried alter a violent, dismission. wherein the Chairman of the Finance Committee .said that they intended' to light the .Minister. Other speakers declared their readiness tn go to prison. fitted. It .showed £lo(l.iKXl ol a deficit, ami that C 1 .oii!;.BOO was due to the Ministry ol Health, while the Board’s BAGfUIR'I overdraft at the hank, which had l.c m sanctioned by Parliament, had nearly been exhausted. A letter was read from the Bank insisting on the restriction of the overdraft Irolit day to day to one third of the outstanding uncollected rates.