BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

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PRINCE OF WALES. LONDON. February 22

The Prince of Wales will he invited lo unveil at Daterlonl, the statue of the Australian composer. \ intent AYallaco. The statue is tlie work of W. C. Mav, who executed tlie Armada -Memorial al Plymouth.

MOTOR 'FOUR. LONDON, February 22

|,',||js, IJirtles and Knowles (cabled on |<>|,. 9th) after a delay by snow in midEurope arrived at Vienna on tlie lGtli. All are well. The trip hitherto had been without incident. They arc due at Constantinople at any moment oil the wav from London to Sydney by motor-car.

BRUTAL .MURDER. LONDON. February 22. A man named Station was remanded on charge of murdering Daisy .Mayes. Tlie police gave evidence that he made a statement: —“ I was determined if I could not have her. nobody else would. I had been hoping for a favourable opportunity to do her in. Alter an argument in the train I pulled out a piece of iron from my pocket and struck her on the head. I then stabbed her with a knife.” The girl had twenty-four wounds. M.VLTNG EE IN G OUTIS 15 EA K. LONDON. Feh. 23. To tlie Commons, a widespread outbreak of malingering during the coal stoppage was revealed in the supplementary estimates concerning which Mr Kingsley Wood said an additional £330,000 was required to pay the Government's proportion of the sickness benefit fund. The total claims amounted to C2,300. (KJ0 over 1923. Approved societies referred half a million claims to medical referees during the stoppage. Forty per cent, preferred to lose tlie benefit rather than submit to examination, while only sixty-six of the remainder were found incapable of work. INDIAN RIOT. DELHI I, Feb. 22. A riot occurred at Bombay with I lie result that Hindus forming a procession in front of a Moslem mosque, and as a sequel the police fired on the frenzied combatants. There were numerous casualties. The first railway in Nepal Indian State lias been opened. The King is the first Nepalese monarch to enter a train. The line is from the British frontier station at llaxaul. to Anileklinnj, 2-1 miles. AinLV3rENTS OUESTI()N 'Received this day at 9.0 n.m.) LONDON. Feh. 22. Lord Oxford .suggests the easiest method of finding a rough nraetira! solution of the limitation of armaments would be to fix a maximum percentage of the nation'll revenue which could legitimately lie appropriated for any forms of warlike equipment.

ROWDY STUDENTS. LONDON. Feh. 22. Members of Oxford University (exclusive of Bullington Club) wearing a. distinctive coloured evening dress, with gold buttons, after a dinner, returned to Christchurch armed with hockey sticks, copper kettle and other weapons and bombarded tlie windows, smashing five hundred.

BRITISH FINANCE London. Feb. 22. The “Daily Mail’s” political writer says in view of the industrial disputes causing a Treasury deficit of twentvfive millions, Mr Churchill has decided to reduce next year's sinking fund contributing the debt redemption, believing the action is fully justified under the exceptional circumstances. The contribution for the present year was sixty millions. STOCKINGS IN THREES. LONDON. Feb. 22. London firms have adopted the American practice of selling stockings in threes, instead of phirs enabling the replacing of fractious stockings which alwavs ladder early. ITALY’S LATEST SUBMARINE. ROME. Eeb. 22. Italy’s latest fourteen hundred ton submarine Ballila. has been launched at Speziifi. Tt is the first in the world capable of submerging for three hundred feet, travelling at nineteen knots oil the surface and ten knots when submerged. It has six torpedo tubes and 4400 horse power. SPANISH POLITICS. MADRID, Feb. 22.

Yangiias lias resigned owing to . a disagreement on Tangier policy with Do Rivera, who takes over his portfolio.