BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

TRADE AND MIGRATION. LONDON, March 15. The Labour Party report states that it is desirable to organise a system of interchangeability between the English and Dominion public services. The report adds that while the Socialists did not recognise the traditions, r al finality of free trade, nor favour thj crudities of protection or preferences, there was a strong case to consider for special arrangements with the Dominions, provided that they did not provoke international dissensions. The report also suggested group migration, including at least two hundred families, with the co-operative ownership of land and machinery. The report also recommends that tlie Suez Canal lie internationalised. DEAIAND FOR DOMINIONS’ PRODUCE. LONDON, Alarch 15. A steady improvement in the de- . mend for Dominions’ produce is encouraging big London shops to give prominence to Empire goods. South African grapes are selling readily at Is to Is 3d per pound. New Zealand blitter and honey have definitely established their position, and likewise Australian and South African jams, and dried fruits. The AY’omen’s Unionist Organisation was responsible for selling five thousand half-guinea boxes of a variety of samples of Empire products. Several London stores report sales of Empire foodstuffs have quadrupled during the year. Provincial grocers are also increasingly stocking them.

N.Z. RURAL CREDIT MISSION. LONDON. March 15. The New Zealand Rural Credits Commissioners, Messrs Essen, Poison and Cox, have arrived from South America, where they gleaned most valuable data as to working credits. The Commissioners are setting off on. Monday for France, Italy. Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, and then will tour the United Kingdom. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. LONDON, March 15. The story of a vain attempt to reconcile fhe Oriental and western • temperament was related at the inquest on the McQuakers (whose tragedy was cabled on March 12.) A verdict was returned of murder and suicide on. the part of the husband. Evidence was given that the husband was jealous of his attractive wife, who appeared to ho unable to accustom herself to English conditions, after lior lavish life as the daughter of a rich Armenian merchant. The husband’s father blamed the wife’s father for talcing file wife away. He declared that lie said, in broken English: “My daughter is the slave of your son! She do fire, wash dish! So I take her away.”

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS SURVEY. LONDON, March 16. The Imperial Airways Survey Party has returned after a two months inspection of the twenty-five hundred miles of the Cairo to India air route. The party selected Bashire, Bunderabbas, and Chahbar lor main areodromes and chose six intermediate emergency landing grounds and petrol % dumps. ' AUSTRO-GERMAN UNION. LONDON, March IG. The Vienna correspondent of the “Times” says average Austrians no longer seriously question an eventual union with Germany as it is regarded as the country’s only possible future, thnu'di cvervbodv knows it is not yet practical in politics. Other plans have ficen considered, but all have been considered, and dropped in favour of the union which no substantial political party is prepared to onixise. A FAILURE. LONDON, "March IC. ' The “Daily Mail” states: “Her Ellis Island advertisement did not save the Countess Cathcart’s play, “Ashes,” which was a dismal failure at tho Prince of Wales Theatre. The story is of a young married s'oeietv woman who eloped with a waster to South America. It had scarcely a line which was not a distant echo of better plays of similar theme.” The “Times” extends sympathy to the actors and cannot guess why the play was produced.