BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

A TERRIBLE DISCOVERY. LONDON, Alarch ’2O.

A terrible discovery was made at Nantwich, in Cheshire, when tho Sheriff’s officers forcibly entered a bouse which was occupied by three sisters named Nixon. The house was barred, compelling the officers to. break down tli,g doors with iron bars. When they entered, they were confronted by the three sisters with uplifted hands. One exclaimed: “We’re in God s hands. This is God’s house. There’s fire and brimstone in ©very room. Mother mustn’t be touched. She sin God s hands.”

On entering the kitchen, the officers saw a couch oil which something lay, covered by a white sheet, On'tmcovering it, they were horrified to discover the body of a woman wrapped in paper and rags. It was the mother, obviously long dead, and practically mummified. Nearby was a table spread with fruit, nuts, bread, butter, and a bowl of tea. Pointing to the table, one of tho daughters exclaimed: “That’s God s table. It is mother’s! Don’t touch it!” Another daughter said she had not been in bed for five years. She had lived in the kitchen with the body. The youngest daughter was a pathetic figure in rags. She ran from the house weeping, and seated herself on the garden wall. The three were certified insane and were removed to an asylum.

AN UNEMPLOYMENT SCHEME LONDON, Alarch 21

During a debate in the House of Commons on the subject of the unemployment, Captain Guest urged that thb solution of the unemployment problem lay within the Empire, and lie had now elaborated the idea of temporary immigration in the form of an 'Expeditionary Labour Army, one analogous to the war time armies, with separation allowances in the ease of tho married mein, hut preferring single men, who would be more likely to settle down permanently. Ho pointed out that the unemployment relief has cost Britain 340 million pounds since the Armistice. He said this was without the slightest return to the nation. His new scheme would insure a larger Empire production of foods, and would benefit the shipping. They were at present trusting to God and their customers to pull them through. ELECTIONS ORDERED. ATHENS, Alarch 20. President Admiral Coundouritois has resigned. General Pangalos, in a manifesto announces a new election on the fourth of April, by a ballot of all the persons on the Parliamentary register. No candidate under forty-five years, or over sixty-five will 'be eligible. General Fangalos’s scheme, which ho is putting before the electors is under a new “American” constitution, to extend the powers of tho President, and to curtail the functions of tho Senate and tho Chamber, to limit the Parliamentary session to six months, and probably to put forward liis own candidature. MAN AHJRDERS SIX RELATIVES. t NEAV YORK, March 20. Brooding over legal and matrimonial troubles, John Goins, a cripple, murdered his wife and five of her relatives at San Francisco. He then committed suicide, ' v AN INDIAN THRONE. London, Alarch 20. Tho Indian Office announces that tluo Government lias granted tho Begum of Bhopal’s petition that her son should succeed to the throne, instead of her grandson, who is tho son of tlie lab lieir. ( AIATTEOTTI MURDER TRIAL. ROME, Alarch 29. The defence at the ATatteotti trial at Chieti, as unfolded by the , witlieses for the accused, consists largely of a fierce attack on the murdered deputy, who is accused of being amongst the most dreaded of the subversive elements. Incidents in bis public career have been brought up, tending to blacken bis character. Other witnesses deposed that Dumini and his fellow accused were brave soldiers in war time, intrepid Fascists and good patriots. EXILED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.)

MADRID, March 21. A Barcelona message states it is officially announced that nine members of the Board and Bar Association have been exiled from different provinces. CHINESE AFFAIRS. PEKIN, Alarch 21. Fengyuehsiang has wired blaming the Premier for failing to maintain order without shooting down the students. The Cabinet, has, therefore, resigned. QUEEN MOTHER Of’DENMARK. [Received this day at 8 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, March 21. Obituary.—The Queen Alother of Denmark. PORT HARDY LEAKING. LONDON, March 21. The owners of the British- steamer Port Hardy, from Glasgow to Liverpool, en route .to New Zealand, via Panama, received a wireless reporting a leak of four inches hourly. The ship is proceeding to Colon. GERMANY AND THE LEAGUE. BERLIN, Alarch 20. It is stated on the highest authority that Germany will not go to Geneva in September without, a guarantee that there shal l>e no repetition of this week’s fiasco. BRITISH COAL PROBLEM. LONDON, At arch 20. Th>? Premier, Air Baldwin, will now meet the coal mine owners and the miners on AVednsdav next, instead of on Tuesday. It is exjected that he will then bo able to indicate the Government's general attitude towards iho report of the coal commission, which the Gowrnemnt is having issued in a new threepenny edition.