BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 September 1926, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

(Australian <fc N.Z. Cable Association.] BRITISH HOP CROP. LONDON, August 31. It is expected that the British hop crop will be about 275,000 ewt., which is 80,000. below that of 1923. The decrease was due to a smaller acreage and the worst attack of mould reported for many years. WAR. INDEMNITY. PAID BY GERMANY. BERLIN, Sept. 1. Provisional figures of Germany’s reparation payment for the second year of the Dawes scheme ended on August 31st, show a total payment of fifty-eight million sterling, to which a further £2,600,000 accruing in September must he added. Germany has delivered goods worth thirty-three millions. The army of occupation cost £4,400,000. LONDON, Sept. 1. The significance of Germany’s reparation payment lies m the fact that, with the payment of forty-five million gold marks by the German Railway Company yesterday morning Germany has paid in full the annuity of sixty millions sterling provided in the second year of the experts’ plan. The Reparations Commission" thinks that this is proof, that Germany is faithfully performing her obligations. DEATH OF NOTED VIOTJNISTE. LONDON, Sept. 1. The violiniste Baptiste had apparently been dead at least a month. A friend states that- she underwent an operation for appendicitis Since then she had suffered internal pain and a re-operation had been recommended. Mdllo. Baptiste was moody, and she complained of people slandering her. One woman, jealous of her success, had struck her on the head with a stick, resulting in a three months’ illness, land the partial loss, of her memory. LONDON, Sept. 2. Ardlle. Jean Baptiste travelled, as “Tho Girl with the Fiddle,” and “Tho Girl with the Magnetic Eyes.” She appeared on the stage barefoot, dressed in rags and played the violin.

A theatrical agent states thjit he found lier in the chorus of a revue only getting fifty shillings weekly. She then secured hotter engagements, and toured Australia in the latter part of 1918, receiving £36 per week. She had recently suffered from ill-health. A NAVA L RELIC. LONDON, Sept. 1. The old wooden line-of-liattle ship “Implacable,” a survivor of the Battle of Trafalgar, and a prisoner taken from the French have been towed from Devonport and moored in Falmouth Harbour, where they were received with a civic ceremony, at which Sir Owen Seaman said £25,00(1, which would be required for the preservation and restoration of the ship, had heen secured through a final gift of £5,000 from a United States naval officer, who served in the British Navy during the late war. •' Mr G. E-. Wheatley Cobb, who was greatlv interested in naval archaeology, and who had done much for the preservation of relics of the navy of the “wooden-walls” days was responsible for saving the Implacable from the ship-breakers. He said: “She is one of the world’s historical treasures. AVe now have three great rclic-s, the .Victory, the Implacable and the Foudroyant.”

LONDON, Sept. 1. Owing to financial difficulties a section of the South Staffordshire coat owners are ceasing pumping operations, except at one station. As a. consequence of this, several pits, which normally employ, three thousand men, will become derelict. . SOVIET DELEGATES BARRED. LONDON, Sept. 1. The “Daily Herald” states Sir William Joynson Hicks (Home Minister) refused admission to the country to M. Tomskv and AT. Melnichansky, the Soviet delegates to the Trade Union Congress, which they have attended for tho past two years. ARRESTS Tn ROUMANIA. BUCHAREST, Sept. 2. The Roumanian Government, without warning, has arrested three of tho most prominent trade union leaders. A general strike is''threatened in consequence. SOVIET TREATY.

MOSCOW, Sept. 2. The Soviet and Afghanistan have signed a treaty of neutrality and nonaggression, providing that nether shall enter , into any hostile agreements with third parties, and also providing for interference in home affairs. ARAB ARRESTED. LONDON, Sept. 1. An Arab, believed to be the one who murdered Cobliam’s mechanic, Elliot, is reported to liiive been arrested. The Central News Agency's Basra correspondent states: “An Arab who is believed to have been the murderer of Elliot, has been identified as named Naim. He will be brought to Basra for trial in a few days. MANCHESTER’S FREEDOM. LONDON, Sept. 1. Violent Socialist opposition in the Manchester City Council resulted in there being a very narrow majority in favour of granting the freedom of the city to the Imperial'. Conference delegates. Members of the Council declared, that the frequency with which this honour was being given lias reduced it to a farce. TORONTO EXHIBITION. (Received this day at 9.0 a.mA TORONTO, Sept. 3. The first New Zealand exhibit at the Toronto Exhibition was generally voted as the most interesting in the whole Exhibition'. Visitors in three days numbered "a hundred and fifty thousand. Already the traders are seeking Canadian representation particularly in rugs, woollen piece goods, seeds, kauri gum, sausage skins and butter. Manv tourists are booking for New Zoiilaml. FUNERAL OF VALENTINO. NEW YORK, Sept. 1. It was decided on the arrival of his brother- from Italy, that the late Rudolph Valentino’s body should he taken to Hollywood to-morrow for burial.