BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 July 1926, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

EMPIRE ASSOCIATION. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, July 27. At the Empire Parliamentary Association annual meeting the Speaker of the House of Commons, presiding, said the past year had been the busiest and most important in the Association’s history. He alluded to the full use made of the gallery in the Commons allotted to Dominion visitors. Mr Baldwin, referring to the coming visit of Parliamentary delegates to Australia, commended the .exchange of views and experiences which would result in Empire interests. He hoped it would he responsible for representatives of other Parliaments to visit Britain. It was desirable that such should be arranged during the next t two or three years. Wishing the delegation to Australia Godspeed, the Premier stated he was sorry he was not able to accompany them. He expected them to return wiser and better men.

BABY IN COURT. fßeceived this day at 12.25 p.m A VIENNA, July 27. Baby Solomon, present in court, saved his mother from long imprisonment. Her husband had denounced his wife’s cruelty towards her two-year-old ixiby and a number of witnesses testified that the mother beat the child drawing blood. The public prosecutor despite the mother’s indignant denials deemanded nil exemplory sentence, but during his speech, the child who was on bis father’s knees smiled and stretched out his arms to the mother in the dock. The .Judge stopped the -speech and ordered the child to bo banded to the mother to whom it went gurgling with delight. Tho Judge dismissed the case saying that no child would show affection to a brutal mother.

PRIEST CAPTURED. PEKIN, July 27. , It is reported that an American Catholic Priest has been captured by bandits in West Hunan. No details are available. A RECEPTION. LONDON, July 27. Nearly a thousand guests attend Sir J. Cook’s reception to tho Duke nnd Duchess of York at Australia House.