BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association

WINDFALL FOR HONDURAS

LONDON, Ala roll 30

The Crown Colony ot British Honduras will benefit by an astonishing windfall in the form of a legacy by Lord Bliss, who died aboard bis yacht at Belize, the capital of Honduras, on the 9th of March. Lord Bliss has bcrjiiCittliecl the colony his fortune estimated locally at twenty-live thousand annually. The Governor, Colonial .Secretary and the Attorney-General are appointed trustees with full powers. It is stipulated that only British labour and material shall be used in development schemes. Lord Bliss's will provides lor £IOO.OOO annually to be spent on a regatta. His burial is to be at Fort. George and a granite monument is to be erected alongside in the form of an eighty foot obelisk, showing a red light for the use of shipping.

POSTAGE CHARGES. LONDON, .March 30. In the Commons, the PostmasterGeneral, replying to Air Brittain, said the department had reviewed the rate of postage of magazines and papers between Canada and Britain, but in view of the heavy loss there was no hope of an extension to oilier parts of the Empire. NEW PEACE TERMS. PARIS, Alardi 30. Al. Rriaud told the Chandler that the Government was offering Krini new peace terms with the French. PRINCESS VICTORIA. LONDON, Ala nil 30. A bulletin states the strength of Princess Victoria is maintained. There is no extension of the mischief in the chest. NEW CRUISER. LONDON, .March 30. Tho lieswick, the last of the five light cruisers ordered by the Admiralty was launched at Covan. ALP. DEAD. LONDON. Alareh 30. Obituary.—o. W. Crook, Unionist member for Eastham in Hie House of Commons, aged sixty-four.

SHAKESPEARF’S WRITINGS. LONDON, March 30. At Sotheby’s sale rooms. .Shakespeare’s historic Henry IV. and second part of Henry V. were acquired by Dr Ro.seiibn.eh, of Philadelphia, for £3,900. and an autographed manuscript of Alilton’s oarlist verses and the famous Milton Ovid script, discovered in 1921, was acquired for £7,200.

EXCLUSIVE BROARCA ST IN 0. LONDON. Alarch 30

Tlie International Radiophone Convention at Genoa proposes to rule the world’s air waves, reveals the ‘•Evenings News’’ in outlining a. new approved scheme for the redistribution of wave lengths. It includes the division of all stations into two classes, namely, exclusive wivve lengths for high power stations with a guarantee that it, will be dear of interference throughout the world, wherefore at least one 1 wave length will be allotted every country; secondly, non-cxi Insive for low power

or relay stations, which will receive wave lengths whereon it is proved ■several widely separated stations may by mutual heterodyning work without interfisrring with local listeners. The .scheme disregards wave lengths under two hundred metres and reserves the exclusive wave length for countries where broadcasting is still undeveloped. It insists on the adoption of a common method ensuring what each station will rigidy adhere to its al-

lotted wave length for which it will probably employ Braillard’s quartz control. It is expected Britain will lose one or more of • Iter main stations, the exclusives being London and Davcntry.