BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) HIGH-PRICED PORTRAITS. LONDON, July 28. A sensation was caused at Christies’ auction rooms when Romney’s portrait of Airs Davenport fetched a record price of 58,000 guineas. The portrait is only 30 by 24) inches. Duvcn also bought Romney’s portrait of Lady Hamilton for 13,000 guineas. Both belonged to Sir Win. Bromley Davenport. 100 LIVES LOST IN JAPAN. TOKYO, July 29. Floods in Niigata prefecture, as a re, suit of continuous rains, are reported. Tb& Sliinano River has burst its banks, inundating the country around Nagaoka. and destroying houses, bridges, and communications. The main railway is badly damaged. Olio hundred have been drowned. AUSTRIAN CUSTOMS TARIFF. VIENNA, July 28. The Austrian Parliament lias approved a new custom tariff, increasing tho duties, chiefly ,on iron goods, textiles, boots, butter and frozen meat. A EAST DISTANCE FLIGHT. PARIS, July 28. Captain Gierer made a non-stop flight from Afoscow to Paris, 1,750 miles, averaging T2O miles an hour. HISTORIC CHURCH ROBBED. PARIS, July 28. Thieves pillaged the historic Church of Clerv, near Orleans, where the tomb of King Louis the Eleventh is situated, anil they stole Louis’s famous gold embroidered cloak, also the tabernacle encrusted with diamonds, and sacred vessels valued at two million francs.

CREW'S AVAGES DOCKED. LONDON, July 28. Two of the crew of the steamer Pearlmoor unsuccessfully sued the owners of the Aloor- Line for wages. Evidence was given that the men had signed British articles. They had fraternised with the strikers at Lyttelton and had demanded the Australian pay rates. The captain refused, and the crew left. The ship then anchored, blocking an incoming detachment of the American Fleet. The captain was forced to accede to the men’s demands during the remainder of the voyage, the crew insisting on cutlets for breakfast and fresh fish three times a day. They •manipulated the steam, compelling' the vessel to reach ports so as to spend the week-ends ashore. They insisted that tlio captain should not make any adverse entries in tbo log. The owners deducted a percentage of the men’s wages upon their return to England.

HANGMAN FOILED. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 29. Kara Kemal Bey, one of the chief instigators of the recent plot against President Kemal Pasha, who was condemned to death, in his absence, was discovered in a house in Stamboul. On the police surrounding the place, Kara Kernel Bey jumped from a bedroom window, anil took refuge in a fowl-; bouse, and there committed suicide with a revolver.

ABYSSINIAN PROTEST. GENEVA, July 29. Abyssinia has lodged a protest with the League of Nations against the recent agreement between Britain and Italy concerning. concessions for both those Powers in Abyssinia. Abyssinia alleges that such agreement anil the concessions therein are incompatible with the independence of Abyssinia. She complains these two Governments are endeavouring to exert <f, pressure on her to obtain compliance with their demands.