BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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AUSTRALIAN AJ ARKET. LONDON, Dee. 29. The Daily Express, under a headline "The Problem of Australia’s Future.” across the front page, features Air Dalton, the British Trade Commissioner’s report on tlie situation in Australia up to June, 15)25, which lias been issued by the Department of Overseas Trade. The Daily Express says Air Dalton places in the foreground of his picture two striking facts—that Australia is a land of many empty spaces, and of two gibat cities—and the paper gives prominence to a passage in which Air Dalton discusses the effect of high tariffs and of the development of manufactures on the drift of people to.the cities. SCHOOL FOR AIRMEN. < LONDON, Dee. 29. The Daily Telegraph announces the Government intends to use the Hendon Aerodrome as ail important Homo Defence station, and as a school for airmen. ’VARSITY DISMISSAL. LONDON, December 29. A sensation at Cambridge University is the dismissal of Air J. 1). S. Haldane, the nephew of Lord Haldane, from the Readership of Bio-chemistry, because lie has boon co-respondent in a recent divorce suit. The University authorities asked Air Haldane to refuse insisting that he was not guilty of immorality. It is understood that a large section of the University opinion considers the dismissal an inquisitoral persecution of a voting and brilliant scientist, which will only cast ridicule on the University. TRAGEDY ARREST. LONDON, December 28. Lincoln, one of the two military men arrested in connection with the shooting of Richards, the brewery traveller, in a garden in a London suburb, turns out to he a son of the notorious Tribitschi. Lincoln formerly was a. member of Parliament for Darlington, who was deported from England. He holds the rank of Bombadier. Richards, apparently, fired a revolver in defence. There was a large sum of money in his possession. The police found seven empty pistol cartridges at the scene of the crime. The police arc following up clues connected with the mystery. There is a woman in the case.

N.S.AV. POLITICS.

LONDON, Dec. 28. The “Daily Telegraph” has an editorial on the subject, saying: “An issue of great importance has been raised in New South Wales, in which all parts of the Empire must feel concern. • It is really whether a Government with very small, and possibly a fleeting majority may neutralise the Second Chamber, and make it impossible for that Chamber to carry out functions of revision for which it was created.-Any Cabinet contemplating such a stop ought to make if clear beyond all dispute. by reference to the constituencies that it seeks a definite mandate for its action. Otherwise the process of Government will soon he overthrown into chaos. There is no such in this ease and we may he pardoned for hoping that the Labour Government will not, after all, go to extremes. Constitutions are delicate things, and they should he modified gradually, if iit. all. It is in the interest of all parties to maintain the existing political institutions, and to make them work smoothly. It concerns the whole Empire that in every part of tlie Empire the spirit, rather than the letter, . of the Constitution should be observ- “ ed."