BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[llc-uter Telegrams.] I>. ANI) O. DIYIDKXD. LONDON'. Dec. A reduction of tile dividend on deferred stock in the l v . and 0. Company from 12 to 10 per cent, is recommended in the annual report owing to poor state of trade and losses l>y labour troubles in Australian and Cape ports. Passenger traffic continues satisfactory, especially that to Egypt. PAGE EDITORIALS. LONDON. Dec. 3. The signing of the Locarno treaties is given page editorials in most of the newspapers which publish whole or half page pictures of the historic scene in the Foreign Office yesterday; also photographs of the signatories. THE TROOPS’ FAREWELL. . LONDON, Dee. :i. The troops at Cologne chalked on the lorries ill which they were taking their departure “goodbye; a merry, merry Christmas.’’ ADVICE TO WOOLGROWEIIS. LONDON. Dee. 3. Prominent speakers at the Colonial Wool Royers Association’s dinner, including Sir H. Goldfinch, Mr Kinsley and Sir Henry Whitehead, urged that the growers should accept more reasonable prices, thus allowing every section in the trade a lair profit ami permitting million* to wear woollen garments and buy two suits where at present they are buying one. A RYE-ELECTION. LONDON, December 2.

Owing to the appointment of Mr Guinness as Minister of Agriculture a bye-eleetion for Rury St Edmunds was lieccessary and resulted, Guinness 14,700, George Nieholls (Liberal) 3,703. PACIFIC CABLE CONTROVERSY. LONDON. Dee. 3.

It is understood the question whether the Pacific cable corres|ioii(leiiee will be discussed at the next board meeting depends on whether Canada persists in her attitude, which is described by several members ns unwise and indefensible.

Sir James Allen says lie cannot see lion- the Hoard could have acted differently, or how it could alter its decision/ The Board had acted constitutionally throughout. The duplication of the eale became inevitable owing to overloading and necessary for providing against breakdowns which were calculated to cripple the service. The Board bad already experimented with wireless and had found it an unsatisfactory substitute before deciding to duplicate the cable. POLITICAL MEETING BROKE IV. TOKIO. Dee. 3. The authorities broke up the inaugural meeting of the People’s Peasant Party, declaring it illegal ami inimical to law and order, with a revolutionary aim. Twenty Tiulicfll lexers ivpr? arrested.