BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 July 1926, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] SERIOUS RIFF RAID. RABAT, July 8. Riff tribesmen swooped down ion the market at Beningniel in Tarquisli district and midst terror and confusion, butchered forty friendly natives and Spanish soldiers who were peacefully shopping. EIGHT ,HOURS RILL BECOMES LAW. LONDON, July 8. Tho Eight Hours Bill was read for the third time in the House of Lords, and afterwards received the Royal assent. LM RICHr.\L COXFF.It KXCK. LONDON, July 7. The general elections in Canada have again focussed attention on tho possibility of the postponing of the Imperial Conference. Canadian circles in London assert that it will bo impossible for the new Canadian Prime Minister to leave Ottawa so soon after the election to attend at the original dale. It is thought that a postponement will lx> favourably considered.

CANADIAN POLITICS. OTTAWA, July 7. It is understood that the Liberal Party will make the constitutional issue the keynote of their election campaign, and also that they have two proposals in view if they should he returned to power. The first is to hold a Fall session of Parliament for the voting of supply. The second is tbe appointment of a commissioner to examine, the constitutionality of the nets of the present Meighcn Administration. The Liberal Headquarters issued a statement on Wednesday declaring:— "Mr Meighcn constitutes now all that (bin he designated as the Government of Canada. Whatever pertains to Canada’s domestic, inter-imperial, and international affairs anil responsibility in-so-far as Minsiters are sworn to administer the several departments of Government, lie is the entire Cabinet and the sole Executive.” The statement adds: “Either there is in Canada no Government which will be recognised ns such bv British constitutional practice, or the Government is one man—a Government that is carrying on with such expedients as he himself is devising.”

The election date is unlikely to he announced for ten days vet.

ANGLICAN CHURCH

SPLIT DENIED BY BISHOP

LONDON, July S

' Tho Bishop of Canterbury, speaking at a banquet to the Bishops at the Mansion House, referred to what he termed the “baseless inventions” that the Bishops had been in strife over tho Pnayer Book revisions. He said that some of the newspapers had published articles in support of a strike of Bishops at Lambeth, with hints that a large schism was pending. lie .Did : “I met a friend, who said .sympathetically, ‘1 suppose it's a great exaggeration?’ ‘No,’ I replied; |“it’s ;i baseless, barefaced invention.’ Ido not mean that there is complete harmony of opinion on every point, hut the Bishops will pull together on these matters within reasonable time.”

1-Ie said that b group of suggestions would bo presented to religious people throughout the land. FILM BALLOT. LONDON, July 7. There has been a ballot of the Cinematograph Exhibitors’ Association of Britain and Ireland as to whether they aro in favour of the abolition of the blind booking of films. It resulted in 1701 voting in favour of abolition, and 198 lagniust. This was 71 per cent of tho poll. Tlie Council of the Association will now confer with the film renters to secure their co-operation in stopping tho blind booking of films.