BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

(Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

BRITISH ELECTRICITY

LONDON, March 30.

In the House of Commons, Mr Ashley, in moving the second reading of the Electricity Bill, elaborated tho Government's scheme, as outlined by Mr Baldwin at Birmingham on January loth. Ho added that part of tho scheme provided for the standardisation of frequency. He pointed out that only one third of Britain was reasonably supplied with electricity. In appealing to the Conservatives, ho said that tlie Government endeavoured to carry out a principle. It was not the Government’s business to manage or operate the scheme, but only to cord in ate and control. Air ’William Graham moved a Labour amendment for the rejection of the Bill, urging that a cheap electric supply would best be secured by a State system.

Afr Denis Herbert, leader of the Conservative group, opposed the measure.

A volume of Conservative criticism was poured out, including a belief that the credits that would require a Government guarantee would far exceed the estimated 331 million sterling. An allegation was made that a monopoly worse than nationalisation would be created.

There is, however, no danger of a Government defeat on the Bill.

RACING SENSATION. LONDON, .March 28. Tho “Daily Express” says that a racing sensation was threatened during the week-end in connexion with King of Club’s win in the Lincolnshire- Han-

dicap. Dawson, the trainer of Zionist which was second, posted an objection to the winner on the ground that the partnership of the horse between Messrs Belle rby and Sowdcn was undisclosed.

As settling day is Monday, tho objection was a bombshell, affecting bo£ all the world over, totalling £2,ooo,oo®^^Many bookmakers who had already paid on the King of Clubs would be obliged also to pay over oil Zionist, while the popular double of Zionist and Jack Horner, the winner of the Grand National, would become operative. Fortunately late on Sunday Dawson cancelled the objection.

’VARSITY SPORTS. LONDON, March 29. The newspapers comment on the remarkable series of sports victories gained by Cambridge Universities over rt Oxford, including the boat race, tho : sports, Rugby football, golf, boxing, and billiards, though it was predicted that Oxford would sweep the hoards}' with the aid of the Rhodes Scholars who are the pick of Domivuon and American talent. /

Some critics say that .there are too many motor cars at Oxford, which are making the training slack.

FRENCH ROYALISTS. PARIS, March 30. The Royalist paper ‘‘Action Frnncaiso,” announces the Due D’Orlenns’ death under the huge headline, “Tho King is dead! Long live the King!” The paper presumes that tho Due Do Guise, tile- Due D’Orleans’ heir, will claim the French throne under tho title of Jean the Third. The Due Do Guise has not interestoil himself in Royalist polities. If ho accepts the Pretender,ship, he will ho forced to leave France.

Others newspapers draw attention to the fact that the Due D’Orleans desired to bo buried at Dreux. The Orleanites, the Count and Countess of Paris, were buried in Surrey, England, and they did not desire to be interred in the royal tombs at Dreux until the French Government gave permission to , the “King of Franco” to attend tho ' v ' funeral. Should the Government now permit tho Due Do Guise to attend the Due D’Orleans’ funeral, it is expected that the’ bodies of the Count and Countess of Paris will also be removed thither.

FRANCE’S LITTLE WARS. PARIS, March 29. The Chamber of Deputies, by 2GB votes to 2G5. voted for a Socialist amendment reducing the Moroccan and Syrian credits bv one million francs.

M. Brinnd, while not insisting on a, vote of confidence, emphatically affirm- . » ed that an abandonment by France of •her activites in Morocco and Syria would precipitate both massacre and CONFIDENCE TRICK. TO® PARIS, March 30. Dr Glenn Herrich, an American Professor of Entomology, through a confident!? trick at Nice, by an alleged New Zealander, parted with sixty thousand francs.

INTERNATIONAL CROSS COUNTRY BRUSSELS, March 29. Harper, an Englishman, won tho eight miles international cross country championship in 2657 seconds. TRAIN COLLISION. VANCOUVER, March 30. At Bogohn. Columbia, at least ten were killed and twenty injured in a. collision lietween an express train bound for Girardot on the coast and n freight train. Two first-class coaches were thrown into the river.