BRITISH & FOREIGN NEVUS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEVUS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

PAPAL AUDIENCES. ROME, Aug. If , Newspapers announce Papal .audiences to Protestants are suspended in consequence of America protesting that the visitors, omitting to kneel in a general pontificinl audience. NEW WAR, PLANE. LONDON, July 31. Berth Hinkler fiew a new lighting aeroplane from Humble, where it was built, to Atartlesham, where he delivered it to the Air Ministry, accomplishing the hundred and fifty miles in an hour. This aeroplane is an AvroNapier, and is named “The Avenger.” It is believed that it will prove the fastest fighter in the world. SIR, J. ALLEN’S RETURN. LONDON, July 31. Sir James Allen has made a voluminous report ‘on the work inside and outside the New Zealand Office, which be thinks, will he an eye-opener to the whole Dominion. He says he is personally amazed to discover the extent and importance of the High Commissioner’s status, which should be second only to that of the Prime Minister. Sir James Allen says he hopes to find work to prevent him from rusting in New Zealand, where he arrives on September 13th. LONDON, July 30. Sir James Parr has been appointed a member of a committee to draw up a programme for an Imperial Education Conference, to he held in London next June or July, at which many special Dominion problems, including ■ post-primary education, will be discuss ed.

JAP FLOOD DISASTER. TOKIO, July 30. The latest reports of the Niigata floods show that there are over four hundred dead and missing. Seventy bodies have been recovered. Numerous bridges have been destroyed. The damage is estimated at ‘four million yen. ’ AN EARTHQUAKE. • LONDON, July 31. Tremors occurred in the Channel Islands, and caused the houses to roelc. A number of the walls were cracked. Tn the island of Jersey, chimneys and ceilings fell, hut no one was injured.

ROBBERY OF OLD COINS. LONDON, July 31. “Reynolds’ News” reports the robbery of thirty-four gold pieces belonging to Halting collection of ancient coins in Victoria Albert museum, South Kensington. A case was forced and the bronze and silver coins were untouched.

POLAND AND RUSSIA. . (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) BERLIN, July 31. Despatches from Aloscow state Tchitcherin bluntly told the Polish Alinister that he did not believe the latter was sincere in saying Poland had no aggressive designs on Lithuania. The audience ended abruptly. There are reports of Russian military activity on the frontier.