BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

—igv L Australia A X.Z. Cable Association] RITTER PRICK JCMPLNIb LONDON. Sept. 30. The ‘‘Stai" says Australian and New ' J Zealand butter "ill probably reach 210 s I in' rwl. equalling 2s lid per lb. retail, if Die strike continues. There are llueo hundred thousand ewts ot Austraiian mid New Zealand butter in England, which is a month's supply under famine prices. FREE ITALY? (Rewired this day at 9.30 a..n.) HOME, Sept. 3tV. * Tin l < firrormnent has suspended <-.0-litti'' litti''- organ, the ''Stampa.’’ owing to it- inaeeurnle report of the amy manoeuvres until an approved editor Imd been ajjpointetl. WAlltl CAPITAL REDUCED. LONDON. Oct. 1. A meeting of the Waihi (101. l .Mine Coy., approved ot a resolution to reduce ihe capital to RPil.lKlO by return mg tlie shareholder' live shillings per share. (IL'.IFCT OF POLICE HUNT. LONDON. Sept. 30. An eighteen inch soapstone statue cl Cudea, a Babylonian princeling, who ruled 112.1 years ago, is the object ol an vxciling search ill Loudon. 'I ho police are acting oil behalf of the Colonial Office. The statue has a unique interest. It is valued at several thousand sterling. It was brought from Baghdad alter a light among its Arab til.dors, wherein six men were killed. The sun ivor sold the statue to a Baghdad merchant, who brought it to London recently, and offered it to a well-known dealer in antiques. The poliie heard of the offer, but they just missed arresting the vendor, who is licensed of smuggling the statue out sof Mesopotamia without paying dues I oil it.

RISING IN BRAZIL. NFW YORK. October 1. Montevideo advices state a revolutionary force ol three bundled men, hilly armed, lias invaded the State of Rio Grande lie Sul. in Brazil. It is asserted the revolutionists captured (e.'.ain stations and eut communication- with Santa Anna Dolviranto, which the Brazilian authorities are preparing to defend. BRITAIN’S FOOD. LONDON, October 1. Mr .1. R. (Tyne- .submitted a motion which contained the main elements of the .scheme which was attributed to Mr .Snowden, when he was Chancellor ol the Fxecheqtter. as Labour's alternative lor preference. It advocated the bulk purchase of the Dominions' food and law materials, either by (iovernment monopoly, or bv an organisation under it- emit ml. in order to ensure r regularity ol supplies and stability of ) prices. / I'RFNCH I) FISTS, u ASIIINGTHN, September AO. Thai the genera! situation had been 1 1 i-eiisseil, was the only official comment offered when the Debt Commissioners adjourned for luncheon on Wednesday. le.it it was indicated that the conversation.- hail been moving rapidly and had brought the negotiators nearer together than at any time since they began. Before the afternoon session. the American commissioners hurriedly met lor a separate conference. At the afternoon session, the French submitted a document embodying what they considered their final proposal for a settlement, which was taken to Whim House for consideration. An an-wer will be given on Thursday. The offer i- understood to hold one hundred million dollar- as an average annual payment, and to increase the period for payment- to sixty-nine years.