BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

INDIA AND SINGAPORE. LONDON. Feb.

Tn the Mouse of Summons .Mr Seurr asked whether tlm Government of India, hud been nsked to eimtrilmte towards the cost of the foiistructirm and the maintenance of the naval base at Singapore, and, if not, whether it was proposed to ask for such a contribution. The Karl of Wiutorton (Undcr-Scc-retary for India) replied to lsith parts in the negative. FRENCH KINANC E. PAR IS, February 2d. A position with most interesting possibilities has arisen in connection with Senator Poumer’s finance bill, which the Senate is mow expected to return tactfully to the Chamber of Deputies, embodying all the original taxation proposals, including the tax on pay's ments, which the Chamber itself tlucv.out by no fewer than HSU votes to 112. The conversion of such a hostile mn.jority is regarded as most <1 iffiriilt, but M. Brinnd is expected to make it a question of confidence. in the hope of gaining a majority from the opposite side.

BRITISH KM If! RATI OX FIGURES LONDON, February 23.

In the House of Commons there was a series of questions on the migration from. Britain. Replies were elicited to the effect that during 102.1, there were 38,006 migrants from Britain to Canaria. anil that 31.000 persons migrated to Australia, and that 11.7.30 migrated to Xew Zealand, whilst 7.001 went to South Africa. Other statistics, based on the balance of Britishers going outwards over those coming inwards for the years 1011 and 1021 respectively, were given with the destinations as follow: To Excess outwards. 1011 1021 Canada 131,071 10,100 Australia ,10.337 23,1,10 New Zealand .. 0,132 8,330 Reporting on the ox-Sorvicemen’s Band Settlement Scheme, the Committee on National Expenditure estimates the Government’s loss at the.3lst- of March at three and a-half millions. Added to this, the loss on the revaluation in 1020 will probably be between forty and fifty per cent., making six millions, out of a total of nine and a-bnlf millions, representing sterling per tenant.

EXTRAORDINARY STORY. LONDON. Feb. 23. The “Daily Telegraph’s’’ Paris correspondent says: An astonishing store of illicit love is being investigated at melon, where the ox-Mayor. Joliet, is charged with murdering bis mistress, l.ueillo Pugli, by throwing her into a drain. Tn February. 102.1. Lucille was [ discovered in the entraine of a sever, half-naked and covered with bruises and blood, she being in the last stage of exhaustion. At first l.ueille refused to make any statement, hut when she admitted that she bad been intimate with. Joliet, who. she said, gave her drink until she lost consciousness. Then he dragged her to the manhole of a sewer nearby his house and flung her in. When she (Lucille) awoke, she was lying in mud. She crawled all night long, seeking an outlet, and shedding her clothes because they were too heavy to drag along. The prosecution alleged that Juliet borrowed money from Lucille to buy a racehorse, and he committed the murder in order to rid himself of an unr — welcome mistress, and to silence his crcd i tors simultaneously. COUXTESS CATHCART. NEW YORK, February 23. Mystery is surrounding the Countess Catbeart’s sudden admission to the United States on ten days’ leave. It is believed to indicate that she will be able to remain ns long as she likes. _ The hearing of Ihe habeas corpus • proceedings, which was set down for to-day, will he postponed for a week. j Friends how contend that the admission of adultery, which is not a crime £ in South Africa where it was committed, believe the Countess will be granted a re-hearing and that the exclusion order will he rescinded.

DIVORCE POINTS SETTLED. LONDON, February 23

The Privy Council judgment. in the ease of the Attorney-General of Alberta versus Mrs Cook, decided the questions which have exercised international lawyers for venerations, first, whether a wife indicinllv separated from her liushnnd may acquire another domicile, and, and secondly, whether the wile may obtain a. divorce upon sufficiently leva I grounds prevailing there, although the husband is not domiciled there. The Privy Council answered the questions in the negative. GERMANY BUYING RRITiSH COOPS. I.OXDOX. February 2d. The British Industries Fair at Birmingham reports a continuance of the most satisfactory orders from all parts of the world. Even the Cermans are buying wireless equipment. RUSSIAN JEWET.S SOLD. (Received thin day at 9.0 n.ni.) MOSCOW, Feb. 2d. A group of French Jewellers outbid inhernational competition for a parcel of Russian jewels including the diamond crown of the ex-Tsarina, diadems, bracelets, lose diamonds, emeralds and sapphires. The purchas.a price was £003,000. The sale was conducted at the institute of the Soviet Finance Commissiart

The sum exceeded the hid of the British and American group of jewellers bv £28,000.

It is most likely the Crown will he broken up unless a wealthy purchaser is found willing to preserve it as an A- -Imperial relic. THE CANTOX DISPUTE. CANTON. Feb. 23. Forty steamers are idled as a result. of the Customs Commissioner enforcing the suspension of loading anil discharging cargo, pending the. Canton Government's acceptance of his demands. There is no sign, at present, that this will he done, dbe Chinese, generally, appear delighted at the cheek given to the strike pickets’ highhandedness. Two foreign steamers have been pirated whilst anchored at Whampoa within a few hundred yards of Baris Military Academy, making more than a dozen piracies of foreign steamers in last- few months. A MII.PION GERMS ESCAPE. (.Received this day at 9.0 a.m.) •LONDON, Feb. 23. 'flic “Daily 'Mail’s” Geneva correspondent reveals that while Spaldinger was recently experimenting with a test tube containing a million tubercular bacilli, it exploded in his face, thus filing the air with its deadly contents. Assistants rushed from the laboratory, hut Spaldinger remained in the infected atmosphere until he had placed the priceless cultures in safety. His health since has been causing anxiety and lie is now recuperating at the Review. Spaldinger has postponed his promised experiments upon cattle at Crewe to the end of March. NATIONAL MORTGAGE COY’S PROFITS. LONDON, F-b. 24. The National Mortgage Coy of New Zealand, after contributing £3491 to the staff provident fund, shows a credit balance of £51.949, carrying forward £20.699.