BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] OBITUARY. ST JOHN’S. Newfoundland, Aug. 30. The -death of Sir Michael Cnshin, a former Premier, is announced. He was aged 62. BAGPIPE TRADE. LONDON, Aug. 31. According to the. Daily Mail, Scottish bagpipe makers are suffering severely from commercial depression. Tho coal miners who are tlieir best customers,' arc not in the position to purelL.se instruments. Most of the trade that is at present being done, is with the Dominions, particularly with Xew Zealand, which takes hundreds of sets. The New Zealanders are most fastidious, paying £3O for a suitable set-. DE RIVERA IN CONTROL. LONDON, Aug. 31. It appears clear, from the first di-, rect news that has been received from Madrid, that whatever difficulties that had threatened have been for the present overcome. Tho Director, General Primo de Rivera remains in the saddle. A DEBT COLLECTOR. " PARIS, Aug. 31. The Premier, M. Poincare, had a conference with Mr Mellon (United States Treasurer) who still insists that he is on a holiday. NICARAGUAN AVAR. MAGAGUA, Sept. 1. The revolutionaries captured Capo Gracias, on the east coast, to-day. The U.S.A. cruiser “Rochester” has arrived at Bragoan’s Bluff, where siC' has been sent- to protect foreign interests. The Government reports that the ro- _ hols have been defeated in a skirmish near the Gulf of Fonseca, and been driven to tho mountains. DISASTER IN MEXICO. NEW YORK, August 31. A message from Nogales, Arizona, states compilation by the Herald on Tuesday of the flood toll in the States of Nauinarit and Jalisco, in Mexico, shows that fifty are known to be dead, and untold property damage lias been done as tbe result of the overflowing of - the Santiago and Lorma rivers. Six small towns have been inundated V and a further overflow is expected. SAYI AIMERS ’PLAN. LONDON, September 1. AA’ierkotter, the German, who swam the Channel in record time, announces that be will return next year in an attempt to establish a better time. He will also attempt to swim to Dover and back. He will bring bis wife, wbo, lie hopes, will beat Aliss Ederle’s time. AA’ierkotter, who is twenty-five years of age. bolds tbe swimming championship of the Rhine, in which be swam sixty-five miles with tbe tide in ten hours thirty-six minutes. He uses the crawl stroke with strength and speed. His Channel swim has nnuyied the experts, WOMEN ATHLETES. GOTHENBURG. August 31.

The heroine of the athletic contests of the Women’s Olympiad is the tall, graceful Japanese girl. Miss Hitomi, who travelled across the world to participate in events, and who broke the world’s long jump record, won the standing jump, was second in the discus throwing and was equally prominent in other events. Miss Hitomi was chaired at the prize giving ceremony. AZORES SHAKEN. FUIITH ER P ARTTC REARS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, September 1. Portuguese warships are rushing to the relief of Horta, where an earthquake occurred. It is estimated fifty were killed and four hundred injured. Fayal is a mass of ruined houses. There are great cracks in the roadways. Terror-stricken inhabitants are camping in the public squares. This is the worst quake in the history of the island, which is' actually an extinct volcano.- All the British are safe. POLAR EXPLORATION. i (Received this day at 8 a.m.) ROME, September 1. In an interview with Nobile, if was learned that with Mussolini’s approval, Nobilq contemplates a flight presenting more formidable technical difficulties than he surmounted with the Norge. An airship of fifty-four thousand cubic metres is being constructed and will be ready at the end of the year. Nobile stated the Norge’s expedition was scieutificially a failure as they could not say whether they was land in the unexplored zone. The whole polar zone ought to he searched methodically. If u peninsula were found, he might land a party of scientists there. The air-r ship now being constructed was just the one for such an enterprise, which would definitely complete the work of polar exploration. BISHOP’S SUITS. LONDON, Sept. 1. The Central News Agency’s Budapest correspondent states: Bishop Zadravecz who has been acquitted of any complicity in the famous French note forgeries by Hungarians lias instituted libel proceedings against sixty-four of the newspapers for their comments on the case. It is intended to consolidate the actions in one big trial, traversing tho whole history of the forgeries.