BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.]

"SETTLE IT YOURSELVES.”

DOMINIONS OFFICE’S ADVICE

(Received tin's day at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON. March A

" Settle it yourselves ” is the substance of the Colonial Office's advice to all Australian States regarding domestic constitutional questions similar to the New South Wales Legislative Council, concerning which it is held that there need he no crisis because the lion L. C. M. S. Amory (Dominions Secretary) clearly and definitely stated in. his despatch of December that such questions must he settled l>etweeu llie Governor and the Ministers. Appeals to the Imperial authorities are, therefore, unnecessary. Mr AfcTiernnn’s projected visit to London will, therefore, obviously he futile, liecause Air Amory will he unable to do more than his elaborate despatch set out.

NAVAL PROMOTION. LONDON, March A Admiral Pakenham lias retired and Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes has been promoted to Admiral. POAMNIONS’ PROPA(IA N DA. 'LONDON. A Larch 3. Sir P.asil Clarke, tl:,? well-known Journalist, lecturing before the Royal Society of Arts on publicity in relation to overseas trade and settlement, condemned overseas propaganda as pie'emcal, this being divided among the Government agencies and private organisations lie urged co-ordination, advocating that the Government’s million trade subvention he largely allocated to the promotion of overseas settlement. Lord Burnham, presiding, depreciated overcoloured propaganda. The truth was enough to convince Britons that the Dominions olfered them better prospects. Lieut. Col. Sir Archibald Weigalt, ex-Governor oT South Australia, announced that the Colonial Office, in co-operation with the Colonial Institute, was co-ordinating with thirty-six migration societies. Sir James Alien (N.Z. High Commissioner) said that propaganda regarding the Dominions’ products was ineffective unless followed by a continuity and regularity of supplies similar to the New Zealand achievement in the meat industry. POPE LECTURES DRESS DESIGNER. ROME, Ala re'h 3. Al. Worth, a Parisian dress designer, and Aladame Worth, recently bad an audience with 11 vs Pope, who gave them a little sermon on women's dress. The Pope said woman’s beauty should be cherished as a precious flower. Her clothing should cover her beauty, and not remove its veil of mystery and poetry. miAfINATING THE MIDDLEMAN. KROAI FARM TO DOORSTEP BY POST. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) 'LONDON, .March 3. The "Sketch” says that in response to a public demand In eliminate the middleman's profits, the Government has decided to emulate the Dominions ami institute an. extensive cash on delivery pa reel post system, embracing agricultural produce, bringing it from the farmyard to tli.e doorstep. It "ill charge probably threepence per parrel, collecting the cash and handing it over to the farmer. INDIAN NABOB’S DEFENCE. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) DELHI, .March 3. Maharaja of Indore’s letter, oflcring to abdicate has hc.’ii published. It recalls that when the Alontagu-Chelms-ford reform was published eight years ago, be criticised ft. holding that neither on the-analogy of international law nor as a. matter resting on a

treaty, was a Prince of his position liable to l>e tried. Rather than sacrifice this principle, lie decided to sacrifice himself by abdication. He feeds the world may wmanly draw conclusions regarding his guilt, and may never realise that it was not consciousness of guilt, hut adherence to principle, which determined his action. He left to the sympathetic consideration of the Viceroy matters relating to his .State, his family, and himscll. The action of the Maharaja. is the outcome of a- recent appointment of a Commission to inquire into his alleged connection with the abduction of the dancing girl Mimita/, Regnni, and the murder of a man named Paula, who was accompanying her.