BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1926, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(Australia it N.Z. Cable Association.]

BRITISH BYE-ELECTIONS.. LONDON, Feb. 1

The bye-election tor East Renfrew, where .Mr A. Macßoberts was seeking re-election on bis appointment as Solid-tor-Genernl for Scotliiiui, resulted:---Alaeßoberts (Conservative) 11.81<; liev. John Mimro (Labourite) 10,889.

1 The Dumbarton bye-election, in consequence. of the appointment of Mr Fleming to a Scottish judgeship. )e----snlled:—Colonel Thom (Conservative) .12,(580! Martin (Labour) 11.010; Reid (Liberal) 2.14 G. JAPANESE CABINET. TOKIO. Feb. 1. Cabinet lias been formally installed. No change in the late Baron Katoa’s policy is anticipated. ITALY RATIFIES PACT. THE VOTING 254 0. ROME. Feb. 1. A secret ballot in the Chamber adopted tho Locarno Pad by 254 to 0. SPANISH FLIGHT SUCCESSFUL. RIO DK JANIF.RO, January 30. Completing the longest stage in tho Spain to Argentine llight. Commander Francois’ seaplane landed in the sen olf Fernando do Noronha on Saturday evening and was towed into the liarhour. having traversed 3305 miles. The next lap of the flight will he 279 miles To Pernambuco on the Brazilian mainland. MADRID, January 31. There is great jubilation over Fraticoi’s arrival at Fernando do Noronha. LORD FORSTER. LONDON. Feb. 1. Lord Forster has been appointed a director of the English. Scottish ami Australian Bank. empire press delegates. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, Feh. 1. Sir James Allen and Lady Allen will entertain the returned Empire Press delegation at a dinner at the Hotel Victoria on the eighth of February. There will Ik; one hundred guests, including the Earl and Countess Jcllicoe, the Earl and Countess Liverpool, Sir Thomas MiioKenzie, Sir .Joseph and Lady Cook, and other representatives of New Zealand business interests.

Lord Burnham and I,adv Apsley will respond on behalf ol the guests.

FRENCH FINANCIAL CRISIS

FURTHER INFLATION IMPOSSIBLE

(Received this dnv at 11.0 a.m.) PARIS, Feh. I

The urgent necessity of immediate measures to check the tall in tbo tranc was the text of a speech bv M. Dimmer when appealing to tlip Chamber in

vote for the Government’s measures because a new crisis would mean unemployment and misery. M. Doumei said the franc in April last year was worth twenty-eight centimes in gold, tint was only worth eighteen in December. It was now nineteen and a half. M. Bonnier said the inflation last year amounted to seventeen milliards of inuics and further intlat.iou was impossible.

EULOGY OF MR COATES. LONDON. Dec. 18

In the December issue of “Empire Production’I—the 1 —the organ id the British Empire Producers’ Organisation -there, appears a very enthusiastic appie'iation of the New Zealand Premier. The writer says: “In New Zealand the General Election was complicated with the Prohibition issue, blit- Air Coates had little difficulty in maintaining his position. \V ( . have watched Air Coates’s career with much interest, realising the difficulty of following in office so meat a. leader and one. so long established us Mr .Massey. Air Coates, to jad mi bv bis work in the last lew months, is'one. of those rare politicians wihp consider that the duty ol a Government is to govern and not to lie enmined in perpetual legislative competition bv which to excite the womler and attract the suffrages of the papula(ion. ••It is true that he has fewer preoreilna Finn* than leaders in more res Hess countries, who are nearly always too busv holding on to their chairs to do much steady work in them, but U at random, anyone were to addiess an envelope to the ‘Managing P»'ector New Zealand.’ it should reach Mr Coates immediately because that s very largely what he is. I his is not intended in any way to depreciate n s vision or his statesmanship; on the contrary he has'used both to tl.e highest purpose bv applying them to the pi actual business problems of bis country.

KIDNAPPERS SENTENCED. LONDON, Jan. 23. Williams was sentenced to eighteen month,’ hunt l" 1 ”'"': “"T [5 Jon t" .*» 7 SZXTfiS. conspiring to cheat "SSNSU , r i c;»; s z* Cliirlo, Arfon rl ™, unirtev to defraud Dongas their grandfather, aged 81 d ««»»«»■« IUU IS tr'.. &«n street of Uo each.l

arrival at pkrnambvco. TONDON. Jan. • Francois has arrived at Pernambuco

\VHOLTS FAMILY KILLED. LONDON. Jan. 28. T(1 a house at Parkstono. a man ■ i Wright aged 00, also his wite and K two children were found dead. The wife’s and the chi dren s hewds were almost severed, and ■ stained axe was lying near the h« - band who had a wound in the tluo.it.

AX ANNIVERSARY EPISODE. | LONDON, Jan. 29. ! Surprise has been caused by the ( Scots Pipers playmg a huuc.it, •" d the Scots Guards sounding the a. t | post during yesterday’s >« } Square service in memory ot Ki rCharles 1- ; It is recalled that two years ago when the Grenadier Guards >•««' * sounded the Last Post Welsh, then Secretary for Mar, said a mistake had been made m allowing the Armv to participate and the. would lie no repetition of the , Major Boss. Coinmaiuling Olhcei the Scots Guards, said: ”1 have i» knowledge of the matter, ft m clem an application was received during the command of my predecessor, who is now in Ireland.”

\ GREAT RECEPTION. LONDON, Jan. 31

The captain and crew of the President Roosevelt had a great reception at Queenstown. They were greeted by the Lord Mayor. A similar reception is being prepared at Plymouth when the Admiralty will be represented.

STINNES’ AI-TATRS. (Received this day at 11.0 a.in.) BERLIN. Jan. 31. The sum of 27 million marks lias been agreed upon as the purchase price of gii lines licet of steamers. Of this sum six millions is payable in cash, and mortgages, to the value of 21 millions.'held by Dutch capitalists, will lie taken over by the new owners. The vessels will continue to sail under the Stinnes flag. The liquidation of Stinnes’ property is progressing. The sale of the Kohlvt Coy. to a British firm and the present fleet transaction will not enable the Stinnes family to continue their Muelheim coal business without outside assistance.

BRITISH LEAVE COLOGNE. RERUN, Jan. 31. There was little' public interest in the final scene of the evacuation of Cologne by British general headquarters. This nftenmon the British flag flying on the Excelsior Hotel was lowered. A wistful “hoclt” was raised bv a few. spectators, and the National Anthem played. Ten minutes later the red and white flag of Cologne was hoisted and greeted hy three feeble "boohs” and a display of a few car-, nival streamers.

DEATH SENTENCE. 'LONDON. Jan. 28

Probationer Constable Burrows was sentenced to death. The defence raised the plea of insanity, hut the prison doctor gave evidence that Burrows, was normal, and remarkably detached and callous. Two other medical witnesses regarded him as abnormal. [ Probationer Constable Robert Burrows was charged with the murder of George Lnight, a publican, his wife, and bahv. at Worcester on Dee. fjtli. Burrows admitted the crime, and said, that the cause would never he known.]