BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

lAustralian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

A GLOOMY PURCHASE

LONDON, January 24

“Job’s rival,” sadly commented Justice Avery when a witness described a carter’s business purchased at Bermotiday as follows Year’s rent in arrears, bill of sale on premises, one alleged customer bankrupt, others useless; horses decrepit and sold them for cats’ meat; carts fell to pieces and sold them for firewood; then the premises fell down.”

VIEWS OF AUSTRALIA. LONDON. January 21

“ Australia would lie shunless if it were not for Sydney,” declared Stewart. a Commoner, on his return from Australia. " Tenement houses are unknown, hut migrants seeking settlement land have their hearts broken. The State should nay the cost of emigration and provide a properly appointed home and five acres cleared, ill order to give a decent start. Coloured people must be excluded.”

ALPINE TRAGEDY. LONDON, Jan. 24

An Alpenstock inscribed “Doctor J. Bean” has been cast up by tlie Bossons Glacier at Afont Blanc. It is a grim souvenir of a tragedy fifty-seven years ago. Dr Bean, an American, and tlie Rev. Air AleCorkindale (a Glasgow Afinister) in September 1870. with eight guides, climbed to the summit of Afont Blanc. They were overtaken by a blizzard however, when descending and they lost their way in a snowstorm. which lasted for a week. Then tho bodies of Rev. AleCorkindale. Dr Bean ami three of the guides were found in a crevasse, but those of the five others were never recovered.

FASCIST EXPELLED. FARES, Jan. 24

The French Government have ordered the deportation of a Fascist journalist. named Canovi, who was arrested at Nice on a charge of being an Italian agent provocateur. It appears that ho had dealings with tho Anti-Fascist. Sncclii, with whom Ihe police confronted him. Canovi thereupon admitted that it was his intention to try to induce Stacchi to take part in a weird plot to charter an aeroplane at Ajaeceio, and fly to Rome, and bomb' Signor Mussolini’s house. The legal opinion is that no charge could be preferred against Canovi, and hence the expulsion order. It is stated that the French Government is irritated by the constant quarrels hmoiig the rival Italian factions on French soil. A number of Fascist agents are at present in Paris and in the Riviera who will be warned to discontinue their activities or they will he subjected to treatment similar to that dealt out, to Canovi.

FIGHT WITH CANCER. LONDON. January 21. Sir Berkeley Aloynihan addressing the British Medical Association laid emphasis on the growing mortality from cancer, and oil the fact that it is definitely curable if it is treated in its carlv stages. TTe said that in the last twenty years, the general death rate had fallen by thirty-two per cent, the infant death rate by 45 per cent., and the tuberculosis death rate by 35 .per cent., hut the cancer death rate had increased by 20 per cent. The doctors, lie said, were inclined to watch the earlier stages, until certain of the presence of cancer has made for certainty of diagnosis, but often it also meant certainty of death. There did not appear to he any predisposition to cancer now that was caused by any special food, or by the want of it. While the disease was local and when the growth was accessible it was definitely curable. ir R. Aloynihan said he was confident that research would eventually capture the secret oft the cause of cancer. That conquest was a question of money. It had been revealed that no actual cure of cancer had been effected by the X-rays.

BOY SCOUTS. ROAIE. January 24

Five hundred Roman Catholic Boy Scout Organisations in Italy have been dissolved. This is in accordance with Signor Ahissolini’s decision to merge the Boy Scout movement in Italy into a new force known as the Balilla. The Pope, in a letter to Cardinal Gusgnrri (Papal Secretary) says , that lie has reluctantly authorised this compliance with the law. but His Holiness adds that he hopes that the Bishops and Priests will keep a wat-chful eye upon the welfare of the youths.

AUSTRALIAN WOOL. LONDON. Jan. 24. Bradford woollen trade circles are puzzled to discover the motive underlying a considerable Dutch purchase of woollens, from whence they are being shipped to Australia aboard Dutch steamers. EXCHANGE RATE. LONDON, Jan. 24. Latest rates on exchange on the pound sterling are:—On Brussels 34.91 belgas; on Paris, 122.50 francs; on Stockholm, IS. 19 kroner; on Oslo, 19.02] kroner: on Copenhagen, 15.21 kroner: on Berlin. 20.47 reutermarks; mi Rome. 113.00 lire; on Calcutta. IS 1-6 pence to the rupee; on Yokohama, 21 1-8 yen; on Hong Kong 24 5-8 yen; on Alontreal. 4 dollars SO 1-8 cents; on New York. 4 dollars 85 5-16 cents; on Amsterdam, 12.14}; on Batavia, 12.11.