BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuter Telegrams.] LABOUIUTES lIEFLECT. CAPETOWN, - January fi. Apparently the had impression caused by the public bickerings of the Labour Congress has led to reflection as there was a marked change in tone at the conclusion of the Congress when a vote of confidence was passed in Mr Creswell and other Labour Ministers. TERRIFIC GALE AT SAMOA. SUVA, January 5. A gale blew at Samoa on New Year's Day. It raged throughout the day, switching from S.IC. to SAY. and back again. The greatest velocity of the wind was 72 miles jier hour, and the lowest barometer reading was 29.11. i PACIFIC CABLE. " I/JNDON, Jan. 5. The Pacific Cable Board met to-day. I Nothing was done regarding the an- I pointment of Mr Percy Hunter as A us- I tralinn-New Zealand manager. The Board is waiting to hear from him. BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON. .Jan. 4. 'The future of the political parties I has lately been the subject of some I

speculation. The talk about “Baldwin Must Go” lias fizzled cut. hut it is re- . cognised that the Coal Commission’s report, and the action, thereon may create a situation of difficulty with some of the supporters. The “Review,” “The Nation” and the “Daily News” continue to discuss the question of co-operation between The Liberal and the Labour Parties, based on a truce iu the constituencies and possibly proportionate representation in a Cabinet. The “Daily News” says: It is incredible to think the two parties will continue to indulge in futile i«ternceine bickerings on questions, not of principle, but of personality. The “Daily Herald” however, declares that the Liberal-Labour coalition is out of question. The slightest readiness even to discuss it would I split the Labour movement. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Parliamentary correspondent points out that Mr I Llpyd George is installing himself in new offices for the purpose of directing I the propaganda of “The Land and the I Nation League.” Tie considers that I sooner or later, he will cut himself adrift from the Official Liberal Party, I an that ho may eventually attempt to I form a Centre Party. Meantime, he is devoting all his energies to his land I campaign. MUTISM COAL TRADE. LONDON. .January -I. I The “ .Morning Post ” labour correspondent gives an authoritative loro- I cast of the proposals the coal owners I will present to the Coal Commission. They include a return to an eight hours day,, district regulation of wages and conditions of employment, also a reduc-1 tion in railway rates. The owners I i state that even now the cost of prodtie- 1 tion greatly exceeds the selling price I 1 and further reductions will ho ncees- I ! sarv if the lost export trade is to lie ( regained. CANON TO MS MISSIONER. LONDON. .January 5. 5 Canon 11. 1). Burton, ex-chaplain of P the New Zealand forces in France, who I 1 was appointed Vicar of St. Martins, I Brighton, in 1910, will leave Fnglatid I at the end of the month to become a j missioner in Bnrbndoes. j CHINESE AFFAIRS. o PUKIN'. January 5.

Feiigyuhsianf has issued a circular stating he is giving up public life and going abroad, and urging the m.i,lita l ists to support Tiiaiichyui in his work for the betterment of the country. y A EX-MILLIONAIRE DIES IN - PENURY. MAN WHO BROKE THE BANK. {■Received this day at 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, January 5. Known throughout the world as the man who broke the hank at Monte Carlo, and one time millionaire, Captain de Courcey Bower, died in penury at Hampstead, where lie latterly occupied a single room apartment house. Bower amassed a fortune of £1,500,000 from Chilian nitrates and other South American ventures. He returned to London lavishly tipping barmaids and waiters with £IOO notes. He soon spent his fortune and in addition his wife’s legacy of one million from the Hungarian sportsman, Prince Batthynni. With the last twenty-seven thousand Bower went to Monte Carlo in 1911 prepared to stake the lot. He broke the hank thrice in one day, winning £ll-19.000 which was quickly dissipated. CANNING TO REPORT. PARIS, Jan. 6. Captain Canning has gone to Tangiers to report to Abdel Krim on the result of his peace mission to Paris.

WAAL AND MKTT.SK FALLING. AATSTEBDAM. Jan. fi. The rivers Waal and Meuse are falling. WIRELESS ON TRAINS. BERLIN, Jan. 6. The installation of wireless telephony on a train from Berlin to Hamburg was opened to-day very successfully. Hearing at lx>tli ends was excellent despite the noise of the train, which was travelling over sixty miles an hour. Communication with a Berlin newspaper office was established within a few minutes. A three minute call costs 5} marks. RACE FOR THE ARCTIC. LONDON, Jan. G. Spring will witness what is virtually a race to the Arctic.

Men are already working at a hangar for Amunsden’s airship for a projected flight in April, while Wilkins hopes to start in an aeroplane front Alaska in March. The Arctic authority of the ‘‘Daily Express” points out that each will fly by different directions. Wilkins is starting early in order to avoid the thaws. In the event of Amunsden’s ship being unable to en- . ter King’s Bay, where he proposes to take the air, Wilkins has every chance of winning. On the other hand it is possible Amunsden will fly from rqiitzbergen. y-, A SON’S REVENGE. SIC ■ PARIS, Jan. G. / There was a remarkable drama of rS vengeance at 'Caen where, Tin July 1924, two villagers quarrelled. One, Torchapello, knocked down the other, Gehemal, who died. Torchapello wasi acquitted of murder and sent to Cherbourg. He returned on Sunday to attend his father’s funeral, and he met in a cafe, Gehemal’s young son, who cried: “I must avenge niv father,” and emptied a revolver magazine into Torcapello’s body at point blank range. MURDER OF MRS MACFIE. NATIVE BOYS CONFESS. WELTEVREDEN, Jan. 6. Two hotel boys, the main suspects in the Martie murder ease, have confessed that one stabbed Alls Alacfie while the other held the victim’s legs, two other hotel boys, keeping watch. Finally confederates removed Airs Alacfio s luggage to an empty house where it was plundered. The prisoners declared robbery was the sole motive of the crime and there was no European confederate.