BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.] SHIPPING CONFERENCE, LONDON, April 14, One hundred delegates, including those from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Japan, attended tlie third international shipping conference at London. The Hon. Walter Ruiicimait presided. The conference unanimously resolved ol! enllirtg on the Governments represented in the lorthcoiniiig international Labour Conference to demand the withdrawal from the agenda of the proposed draft convention on tho simplification of the inspection of emigrants aboard ships. Sir Alan Anderson. the mover, said the matter was outside the scope of the International Labour Office, which was tending to extend its province unduly. The question of compulsory passenger insurance was referred to ft committee.

A resolution was moved by the lion Runicman urging co-ordination of the policy of nations as regards maritime commerce in a central co-ordinating body like the Maritime Committee. The" League of Nations was also referred to in committee. SEQUEL to .mansion fire. LONDON, April 15. Thirty civic guards arq digging the grounds at Lamineha, flic mansion destroyed by fire at Dublin when the owners (two brothers :-i:<l two sisters) lost their lives. The police search is for a box' that is supposed to contain one thousand pounds worth of gold, that is missing front Hie house, and which it is believed that tiio mail, Clark, who also lost bis life iii tlie fire, under his employers' instructions, buried under a tree during tho unrest in Ireland ill the years 1921-22.

CIVIL SERVANTS. FIGHT OVER SALARIES. PARIS, April 14. Rioting ocelli red in consequence of attempted demonstrations by civil servants. A crowd of several hundred, mostly Communists, defied a Prefeetorial prohibition, and tried to force a police barrier, in order to raid the premises'of an electrical undertaking. There were three hundred arrests, but only two were detained. AIiSTRALI AN GOVERNORS. LONDON, April If. The “Morning Post” states: “England has a special interest in the appointment of the Governors of the Australian States which the Australian agitators in favour of local nominees have overlooked. Huge Australian loans have been floated in London on advantageous terms, through the Trustee Act, and the renewals of these have never boon questioned; whereas foreign lenders might easily refuse to renew, except on onerous terms. Tho English lenders are happy to lend at a comparatively low rate to British Dominions where the King is represented by an ■ English Governor, hut it is doubtful whether there would be the same confidence if local men were the Governors. Australia lias - supreme confidence in herself, and in her superiority, which is healthy, hut this leads to complications if it is over asserted. It is noteworthy that the Australian Labour Party has never used the referendum to test the question of the Governors.” BETTING TAN ADOPTED. LONDON, April 14. ' The Daily Mail states that the Cabinet ha? approved of a belting iax. SIR. G. GAI’NT RESIGNS. LONDON, April 14. Admiral Sir Guv Guant, who was cabled as missing on February 11th., — has now resigned his seat in the House of Commons. Questions concerning Sir Guy Gaunt’s absence were recently asked in the House of Commons. '' CHINESE FIGHTING. PEKING, April 13, Advices from Tientsin state heavy fighting in going on in the vicinity of Hunngtsuil where the allies are continuing their hitherto unsuccessful efforts to break through Kuominehun lines. PRINCE OF WALES. LONDON, April 1-7. The Prjnce of Wales lias gone to Biarritz.