IRISH AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1925, Page 2

IRISH AFFAIRS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] IRISH AGREEMENT. LONDON, December 7. In the House of Commons, Mr Baldwin formally introduced the Irish Treaty Bill, which fixes April Ist as the date for the transfer of the powers of the Council of Ireland to the Lister A Parliament. LONDON, December 8. After a heated debate in the Dail Kireann. the Government defeated a motion for the adjournment of the debate by -V> votes to 2(5, thus praetically eiisuring the ratification of the Irish agreement. CONFLICTING VIEWS. LONDON, December 7. The Dail Kireann debate on the lirish ngrooiren: was adjourned after a heated two hours’ discussion. President Cosgrove, in moving the second reading, said: When Professor MncNeil resigned from the Boundary Commission, the Irish Executive was faced by perhaps the most serious situation with which it has had to deal. „ The award of the Boundary Commission was then imminent, and it would have sown the seeds of distrust, hate and disorder. They were faced with two alternatives, namely, that of carryiii"' out the award or that ol resorting to arbitration or force. Either alternative pointed straight to disaster and chaos. The agreement will mean a turning point in Irish history. It has removed the main outstanding sources II dispute between Britain and the Five State. The Kxeeutive strongly renin mends the Deputies to accept it in tin- interests of prosperity and peace.” Professor Magennis strongly opposed tie agreement. He declared that Ulster had got all its own way. and was nmv in a fair wav to become a separate dominion. It was culpable and wilful ignorance for the Kxeeutive to allow Professor MncNeil to proceed until there was no way out. LONDON. December 8. A meeting of the Irish Nationalist members', of Parliament and the Nationalist leaders in Tyrone and Fermanagh Counties, was held at Armagh this •- evening. The meeting declared that the Nationalists in the border counties have been callously betrayed and they n-e neither morally nor legally hound ,v the new agreement, as the Free -tuto representatives had not been mthorised to alter the treaty. PkITISH & FOREIGN NEWS 1 Reuter J olegrams.j WK.Mili.iM - LObbr.B. i I.uXDU.S, Dec. i. Ihe Guarantors arc (utterly disappointed w till the Wembley Exhibition Ltd.'S and they are likely to urge uni! an inquiry be held into me bole linancnil administration. The auditors have issued a statement shoeing that the capital expenditure amounted to £2,7 otf.oiM . 'the : eve line was £2.514,!)3d. Other expenditure totalled et.tioi .210. 'lbis leaves die minimum loss at £1 .OSI/JCd. The Government's share of the guarantee. which has been called up, totals LI.RKI.CUfL v LONDON, Dee. 8. ’1 here are indi atini.s that tlie A'cmbley accounts, which are being given prominence in all the papers, ill be very severely criticised. The ‘‘Morning Po-t ' understands that the \ic« of the Directorate is ,Iml their task "as hopeless from the mtset. They found themselves imii•iiilloil to a huge expenditure. The Stadium could have been built lor £101).OOP instead of costing half a million. In an editorial the “Post” states I that it holes that the Government will not enforce the liability of the guarantors. It it is enforced, it possible that a controversy will be —* .iroused which would be inappropriate to a great Imperial concern. LONDON. Dec. 7. The ‘‘Times’’ states: Those who have a true conception of the meaning and results of Wembley Exhibition will not think the accounts represent too bad a bargain. The “Daily Herald,” under the heading “Bad Management Somewhere,” .ays that the House of Commons should insist on an investigation by a committee free of Government inH uonee. The “Financial News” states: The taxpayer is entitled to know whether bis share of the loss might not have been smaller. LADY AXTOR. Aid’. LONDON. Doe. 7. Lady Astor. ALP. was enthusiastically welcomed by her constituents at Dover on her return from Australia. A torchlight procession inarched from the pier to the Town Hall, where Lady Astor. in acknowledging the welcome, mentioned that during their 30.000 mill's tour, they (the Press delegates) touched only two parts not in the British Empire. NEW FRENCH TAXES. PARIS. Dee. 7.

M. I.oiu lienr's financial policy is embodied in seven separate bilks, including measures creating fresh sources of revenue, establishing a sinking fund, preventing fiscal frauds and the flight of capital, altering the railway rates, and improving the methods of the iotleclion of income tax. ,M. Moiieheur hopes ultimately to secure an additional eight milliard marks annually. BRITISH COAL SFPSIDY. LONDON, I>c. 7. _. Supplementary estimates, reveal that the British coal siib-idy will cost the country nineteen millions sterling, or nine million- In cx ess of the original e.-i innate. ENGLISH CROSSING DIStSTF'V LONDON. Dee. 8. A charahnc. which had taken a p-ar-tv of thirteen from Wahurn Sands to llleti liley. wa- live miles from the end of the return journey when it crashed at night into railway gates and overturned. An express, from Cambridge, almost -iiiiuli:ii»eou-lv dashed into the wreckage. The eight was dark, hut without fog. The roads were slippery owing to a thaw. Harrowing scenes followed. Lamps were brought from nearby cottages, and the injured were extricated with diflicutly. and were placed in the guard’s van of the colliding train, in . . which doctors rendered first aid while"* the train was going to Bedford. Three men and three women were killed. They were so mutilated as to be iiinveoguisahle. The police were -till .searching at midnight for handbags and articles of which they might i>e identified. The driver of the charabanc was seriously injured. A child had a miraculnils e-cape, being picked up within inches of the wheel ot the train. WELLINGTON LOAN FLOATED. LONDON, December 7. The ' Financial Times” states: —Tt is nndcrstoi id that the Wellington loan i- just about covered.