BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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HUNTING ACCIDENT. LONDON. January 28

It. is officially reported that the Prince of Wales had a limiting accident, hut that it is unlikely to interfere wil.li his engagements. He was hunting with, the Beiveir Hounds when a horse dropped dead under him lint he was not injured. Again, however. he had a fall, and this time he broke bis collarbone.

’l'lie Prince ol AA ales’ accident occurred in open country. Ihe hounds were going at a. great pace in a big field. Following them, the Prince took a difficult hedge. flanked by two ditches. His horse cleared the obstacle. stumbled and then fell. The Prince looked cheerful and well on arrival at London. He assured welcomes that he was perfectly all right. The Prince’s injuries consist of a fractured left collarbone and bruises. He was assisted immediately by several followers, and conveyed in a motor-car to a local surgery, where he was treated, and the fracture was set. When X-rayed, it proved to he a perfectly clean, simple break, with no complications. A rapid and complete recovery is confidently expected. BRITISH ENGINEERS’ WAGES. LONDON. January 23. Negotiations which have lasted for t-VD years for an increase of 21 per week to seven hundred thousand engineering workers, have broken down. The “ Daily Herald” states the present wage of the skilled engineers \" JO fn 00 shillings per week.

BARON NATO’S FUNERAL. TOKfO. January 28. Baron Kato will fie huriisl on lb 2nd February. Wakasuki has keen appointed Premier during the interim A GAMBLER’S END. LONDON. Jan. 28. The “Daily Express’s” Nice correspondent says:: ‘‘Roger Murdoch, believed to have been horn in Australia aged about -Id, committed suicide under strange circiims-taiici's at h:s villa. ‘Ruqiiesbrime,” at Cnpmartin. Mmdoeli was not seen lor several na\s. neigh,hour, becoming suspicious, informed the police, who. when they broke in. found the window closed, and a not in “Beware of gas!” pinned at the entrance of the hall. Ihe ft ns R'i l '' |:: the bathroom were turned on. Mur doeh’s bodv was lying on rugs on tin Hour. Xenrbv was a letter stating that 1,0 bail seat his wife to England wits his remaining money prior to committing suicide. Murdoch was President of several Riviera Courts clubs, lie .W been losing heavily at the Casino. The “Daiiv Express” sa\s the police found two letters, one addressee “Josephine," ami tile other one addressed to the Police ( ‘‘"""'T'm v wherein Murdoch said: I lost - S.-- W ■>!'" and had been informed by Ins solicitoi.tlmt, they could send no turn- i« ; The “Daiiv Chronicle says -■>" duel, had a reputation ol bong ' thv but he was hit pramica.lb luck at gambling. His j or for home in ignorance oi his intentions. Rl*\\!>ll FLjGh’C. .MADRID- J l ’"-_ - H * '| t IO Spanish airman- k ram is . sea,the Bins I lira, tic"' iron, tho I' ’ , ■ , * i,,. Ym-tle Is amis Canary Island- to tin ' ,IIK Sit 1-I ?•' 11 () 11! S. The" plane leaves Port «f L->;' <-> Saturday on the third stave o the llight: M> Feruamlo .\orohnya, a stretch of INO miles, whtcl, ts -ho most difficult stag“ .1 Um

KAiPIKE AIR SERVICE LONDON. Jan. 2b. lH an article in the “Outlook,” Commander Kemv-rlhv. ALP., urges the extension without delay of tho jr.rvpt-Imlia Air Service to Rangoon uml Amiri He -outends that there me no technical .l»Hi<*"lticm to a weekly Loth-wav service to Australia. It would cost less than 23011.000 yearly, on u basis of five shillings per ton per mile. Sydney could he brought within five (lavs of Loudon by day and night Hying. There would not be much of a future for a passenger service, hut the British. Indian, and Australian Govemnionts. hv a commercial

service, would save much cabling costs, while a great advantage would he the quicker despatch of commercial documents. The service could not he an “All Red” one as the existing European and Asiatic routes must he used, going thence to tlie Dutch East Indies, and on to Port Darwin.

bears in court. BERNE, Jan. 28

M. Grossenbneher, the keeper of a | famous hears’ pit at Berne. has l brought an action for deiamation against, three employees, who accused ! him of cruelty to the hears. During , the trial, two hears were brought in. They immediately began to (.'.fowl angrily, evidently expecting a heating from the three defendants. Then Grosseubneher entered and the hears grunted with joy, licking Loth his hands, and even attempting to hug their smiling keeiscr. “The bears have judged this case.” said the judge. No Further evidence was required. j EVACUATION OF COLOGNE. j ‘ PARIS. January 28. j The conference of Ambassadors has j notified the German Ambassador that; the Allied evacuation of Cologne zone will lie completed at mid-night on the j 31st of January. j ANGLO-FRENCH DISCUSSIONS. j PARIS. January 28. J Sir Austen Chamberlain (British i Foreign Afinixtcr) and Al. Briarnl ! (French Premier) met at the Ouai j d’Orsnv. They discussed the whole range of subjects of A nglo-l* reneh in-j teresl. except that of the debts, hut no decisions were taken. Slibsequntlv AT. Briarnl. when interviewed, said that no obstacles were encountered. Everything could ensih he settled. Tlie problem of the Allied troops in the Rhineland would lie settled in the spirit of the Locarno I‘nct later.

THE REPARATIONS. PARIS, January 29. “ l,e Temps " asks why Mr Churchill requested France to pay three times, as much a.s Italy, when the respective debts were 020 and Oil) millions sterling. The paper adds “ If Italy gets

only one-fifth of the- amount of our reparations it means that France was suffering live times, greater during the war.” FRENCH CUSTOMS. PARIS. January 29. The Government have prepared a hill increasing the customs dues approximately by thirty per cent which are expected to yield four hundred million francs.

The Chamber during the past fev dnys has been busy with matters of procedure but simultaneously negotiations are going on behind the scenes to' secure some agreement on fiscal matters, in preparation for getting to grips with the problem as early as possible.