BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

fAustralian & N.Z. Cable Association.] - SIR JAMES PARR ARRIVES. LONDON, May 30. Sir .Tames and I.ady Parr and daughter disembarked from the liner Rotorua this morning and were weloined at Waterloo station by Sir .Tamos Allen, Sir Francis and Colonel 11. V. De Sntge, ceremonial secretary of the Colonial Office representing Mr Amery. The party had a pleasant trip and all ire well. Sir James Barr’s first imlortnnt task after his assumption of iffieo oil the .Ist August will be at the League Assembly in September with air Francis Bell. THE PARRS IN LONDON. LONDON. May' 30. Among the numerous New Zealanders who welcomed the Barrs at Waterloo station were Parkinson of the Dominion Office, Leo Myers (Leo being a fellow student of Barr's), Dr. Bernard Myers, Crabb, Cecil, Wray, Colonel and .Mrs Gray, and Bernard Tripp. The Rotorua was delayed overnight at Southampton owing to a fog. WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE. PARIS. May 39. Jlistresses Ley and Annie Riley, Misses Allen. Rrompam. Chave-C'olli-sion, Gillman-Jones, Anamez, Rhodes. Whitehall!, with Mistresses EcclesSnowden, Townshend ns alternatives, are attending the Congress of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance which opened at Sorbanne. The meeting pf the committee on equal moral standard adopted a strongly worded resolution against compulsory notification, detention and treatment of veneral eases, which is in direct opposition to West Australia’s system and is expected to cause contention in Congress. Doctor Helen Bakewell and Misses May Kane and WhitebreadEdwnrds are representing New Zealand. OBITUARY. * LONDON. May 39. Obituary—Philip Lyttelton Cell, a former President of the British South African Company, aged 7i. THE EX-KAISER, BERLIN, May 30. The ex-Kaiser has completed the manuscript of the book which describes the early hardships and differences with bis parents and historical events leading up to his accession. FRENCH LOSSES.. PARIS, May 30. Official:—French losses in Morocco during 1925726 were: Killed, lo 06; died of disease 562; missing, 274. CYCLONE IN DELHI. DELHI, May 80. Twelve hundred persons were killed and the country on both sides of the Maya range river was strewn with carcases of cattle by a cyclone which left Akvab practically unsoatlied. Thousands an? homeless. Relief organisations are helpless owing to the extent of the devastations.