BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1926, Page 2

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] Alll AI AN OEUVRES. LONDON, Alay 24. Plans are being prepared for summer air maneouvres to test the latest aviation tactics. Air formations will he drilled like infantry battalions by means of wireless. Alock combats will be fought by fast single-seaters, fitted with camera guns. Exercises will bo * carried out in attacking camps by mcans of bombs, air torpedos, and catapults, including centripetal attack, in which a dozen machines will con- ' verge from all sides upon a target. Recent fights with camera guns suggest that the twin engined machines are superior to the single scaters; hut advocates of the latter complain that the test was not realistic enough to approximate war conditions. It is hoped to stage tlie trials better at tho coming manoeuvres.

’ BEQUEST TO DUNEDIN. LONDON, May 24. Mr Wolf Harris, one of the founders of Dunedin, and the principal of Bing Harris and Co., drapers, left £263,393 ; also three pictures to Dunedin, land one to the Christchurch gallery. He hoped that his grandchildren would remain Jews. THREAT OF KIDNAPPING. LONDON, May 24. ‘ The Marquis of Bute has received a letter signed by a British Communist threatening to kidnap his thirteen-year-old' son unless ho pays five thousand pounds to charny. A LONG FLIGHT. LONDON, May 24. A message from Norfolk, Virginia, states that after completing the first leg of a sixty-one hundred mile aeroplane flight to Buenos Ayres, Seller Bernardo Duggan an Argentine sportsman, and companions arrived to-day from New York. They will resume their flight to-morrow. COAL IMPORTATION. LONDON, May 25. The “Daily Herald” asserts that a local custom’s excise officer has writ--1 ten to the Secretary of a coal exporters’ association, asking him to inform the members confidentially, “without publicly posting notice” that the Government desires to encourage the importation of foreign coal and coke. The letter explains that the imported coal will not he sul>jeet to rationing control. PHILIPPINE WAR. MANILA, May 25. Forty Moros were killed in two native forts which were stormed by the constabulary at Tuguya and Lanao. Five forts are still holding out and the fighting is serious. The constabulary lost one killed, and nine wounded. Twenty-eight of the constabulary, involved in rioting at San Fernando, Pampnnga were charged with murder. Reinforcements have been rushed to San Fernando. ROTARY CLUBS. HONOLULU, May 25. The programme for the first day of the Rotary Conference, beginning on Tuesday will lie as follows:—President Horace Johnston, of Honolulu Rotary Club greets the visitors; Governor Farrington delivers address of welcome; Past Director Charles Rhodes, of Auckland and Everett Hill, of Oklahoma City responding. Harold Coheii, of Melbourne, speaks on rotary philosophy and practical. Peter Barr, Dunedin, on the extension of the Rotary activity. McGludiee, Bendigo, on “the committees of the Rotary Hundred.” Fifty visiting Rotarians are now here.

H. Duncan Hall, of Sydney University, speaking at the Pan-Pacific Club’s luncheon, said the people of Australia are coining to a point where they realise the necessity of contact with affairs of the Pacific for building up good relations with “other ' nations.” PRODUCE PRICES. Messrs W. Weddel and Co., Ltd., advise dated London 21st inst., as follows: Danish butter 1745; New Zealand, unsalted' 172 sto 1745, salted 163 sto v 1725. Market slow. Cheese white and coloured 92s to 945. Market quiet.