BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 October 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

HAILWAY DEI’A HT.M ENT'S TO l' li - ISTiS. LONDON. Oct. ~I - Mr James Mason, representin'' the I Now Zealand railways !i;ts completed i his investigations of British railway ■ methods ami leaves on Kriday for (lie purpose of iiiakino similar inquiries in the Tnilcd Suites and Canada, embarkin'.: at San Kraneiseo. ■ EMIMItE A I'd! I At. I'OSSI HI LITfES. LONDON. Oct, -il. Sir Samuel llaarl. in a speech at Norwich, dv.c-lline on the immense possibilities of aviatem m the liritisl) Empire declared I !:;it there was no technical reason why Bombay should not he reached from London in four days. ('a lent ta and Colombo ill six or seven. Singapore in eipht. Melbourne in thirteen days. A provisional aereeniciit has already been initialled lor tukino tlie lirsl step for securiiijr an aeroplane route to India. The route was already surveyed and he Imped to make a hcoiiiniiip; next year. Sir Samuel hoped, eventually, to see the Cape to Cairo route, which Mr Allan ('obliain was groin" to (ly this winter and which a service fli"ht showing the British fin" in Trans-Africa, would come next spriii". NEW CM IKK JI'STICK. I.ONDO.V. Oct. - 1. Lord Justice Moore has hoon appointed Lord Chief Justice fur (lie North of Trelnnd in siirression to Sir Dennis I [etiry. ALIKNS AItHKSTKI). LONDON. Oct. 'il. Nine aliens have been detained as a result of a secret raid at Olns-oi’.v hy Scotland Yard. They included a local Communist and. two women wlm were conveyed to London, ft. is reported they are to he deported. k\mocs i ootbai.lkh dead. LONDON. Oct. •-’(). The death is reported of D. .1. Thomas, the Welsh international Htijlhv footlndler. A KHONTIKi: KID I IT. ATHENS. 0,1. '.'o. A "lave iueidelit lias occurred on the (I raced- I’ulea lia ii I nuilier. lln learia us nttaeked a Creek post near Demlhiesar, and killed a Creel-; ullit-ial. When a Creek captain appeared carrying, a while Hast, he was slm! dead. An enuacenieiit then ilei'elopial. Instill" bn nineteen hours.