BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] THE DAY OF BEST. LONDON, Alarch 4. 'The Commandment, “ Six days shalt thou labour,” is taken seriously in Glasgow, because Norman AlcKenzie, an elder of Patrick Highland Church, worked on Sundays in his capacity as deputy-harbonr-master. He was sus- ' pended by the Kirk session, but Alc-Iveny-io appealed to the Free Church Presbytery, who urged the Session to recall its suspension. The Session replied that- if AlcKen/.io’s work was a necessity they would have to find something in the Bible to convince them. AYKMBI.EY PAVILIONS REMAIN. 1-ONDON, Alarch 4. The AYembley authorities have agreed to allow the pavilions to remain as factories, excepting the New Zealand pavilion, which was removed to allow - of street widening. The palace of art becomes the Government Aluseuni-^ggH^,* THE SCHOOL DUNCE. A SPECIALIST EXPLAINS. ’ LONDON, March 3. Doctor Fenwick, of Harley Street, entered an original plea on behalf of the school dunce at the conference of the Institute of Hygiene. He said that inability to learn was not always the fault of the head. It might be duo to the body as the result of malnutriion or of an idiosyncrasy whereby poison was absorbed into the general circulation, tints exerting a specific influence on the brain, and causing drowsiness. Nearly eighteen per cent of the middle-aye indigestion, he said, had its origin in school life. For instance, the statutory cold tub might induce a digestive disturbance, and it should be limited to those for whom it was suited. Somnolence and yawning was particularly apt to occur on the days when the scholars were given pea soup, custard or suet pudding. Hiccoughing and stomach cough were often due to hasty eating. . Many children, said Dr Fenwick, •had food idiosyncrasies as the result of the monotonous repetition of nut set > v fare. A NEAY SHIPPING VENTURE. : LONDON, Alarch 4. The Daily Express understands tho Commonwealth is seeking the British Government’s approval of an important shipping scheme aiming at- speeding up communications as well as negotiating with a private group that is proposing to form a new company with a capital of ten millions sterling, to build seven ships of twenty-four thousand tons each, designed to make the voyage from Southampton to Fre- „ mantle in twenty-five days. If this scheme is adopted the Commonwealth will give the new Company a contract for the carriage of mails, the transit time for which will he reduced by five days each way, as compared with the present Peninsular and Orient services. The new company would also carry all emigrants.

Tho proposed route is Southampton, Genoa. Suer. Canal, Bombay and Colombo.

The- new ships would have cold storage equipment- of the most modern tvpe, enabling Australia to compete with South America in the chilled meat trade.

KITCHENER’S END. LONDON. March 3. In tho House of Commons, Air Seryingcoiir asserted that there are two hundred people ready to give evidence regarding the tale of the cruiser Hampshire (on which Lord Kitchener - travelled when he lost his life). 9* Air Scrymgeour asked if the Admiralty would arrange an inquiry into the loss of the warship Hampshire. lit. lion AA’. P. Bridgeman (Fifflfc Lord of the- Admiralty) replied that no was not aware of the existence of any fresh evidence or material facts tli-U would justify an inquiry. The Admiralty were perfectly satisfied as to tho cause of the disaster. He was against any fishing inquiry, from which someone, perhaps, would he able to make charges against others. KLKCTRI CAL AI ACHINER Y BARRED. LONDON, Alarch *4. The ” Daily Mail ” says: “A grim secret of Lhasa was revealed to tho Indian agents of Crompton and Com- » patty, engineers, of Chelmsford, hy Tibetian runners. Crompton’s recently dispatched three hundred tons of electrical machinery for erection in tho Forbidden C’it.v in charge of a young Tibetian peer named Ringang. A condition of the contract was that no Englishman should enter Lhasa. The machinery was safely reported four hundred miles from the rail head at Kalimpong, after which there was a. long silence. The agents now report that bandits, allegedly representatives of the new Tibetian Government, met Ringang with a mule caravan ill a mountain pass, assassinated his party. _ and threw the whole of the machinery over a precipice. Ringang was a relative of the Dala Lama, and was educated in England, where he studied engineering. As a sequel to the news, the British Everest expedition has abandoned its project to attempt an ascent in the autumn.

IRELAND AND PRIYY COUNCIL. LONDON. .March 4. In the House of Lords there was a sharp debate on the new Land Bill of the* Irish Free State. Following Unionist objections that the. right of appeal to the Privy Council was menaced Lord Cave pointed out that the Free State Government had taken umbrage at the Privy Council allowing appeals in three recent cases. The Free State was claiming that the practice followed with South African appeals should be adopted. Lord Cave explained that no such undertaking had been given. He said he refused to believe it was the intention of tho Free Slate to depart from its obligations. The Privy Council was not obsolete or obsolescent, but its juris-diction-was readily accepted by great courts in the Empire, such as tho Supreme Court of Canada, and tho High Court of Australia. After Lords Haldane, Carson and Morris had spoken, the matter dropped.

COMMUNISTS Ml RESTED. . AYARSANY. March 4. Political police arrested over forty Communists, whose activity on behalf of a neighbouring Power is stated clearly to have been established. It appears those arrested incited nnemploved to riot, but unsuccessfully. JAP FINANCE. TOKTO, March 4. The* Government submitted to tho Lower House supplementary estimates amounting to thirty millions six hundred thousand yen. ARMY MEAT CONTRACTS. LONDON, March 3.

In the House of Commons. Mr P. David-on. replying to a question, said it was impossible to give preference to home-produced fresh meats in tho Navy icon tracts for Homo stations. Practically all the meat, was obtained from the Dominions at half the price of home killed meat and the heavy extra cost made a policy of preference for home-killed meat impossible to adopt.