BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

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DAIRY PRODUCE. LONDON, Feb. 24. Butter— I The market is very dull, lower prices having failed to stimula e the demand. Buyers are holding o , apparently hoping for a further reduction. Choicest New Zealand, salted 166 s to 168 s, unsalted 178 s to loos, Australian, salted ItiOs to 1645, un * salted 164 s to 1665; Danish, 1112 s P er cwt. „ Cheese is slow of sales. New Zcnland 91s to 92s per cwt. DIAMOND RUSH. CAPETOWN, Feb. 25. There were dramatic scenes in a new diamond rush at Grasfonticn, in the Transvaal. This is said to he the biggest rush vet known. e No fewer than seventeen hundred* runners, including many athletes, „ up, and the spectators probably exceeded that number. Owing to the excitement a false start was made, and thousands who crossed the line liefore time could not bo checked by the police. Many claims have been, illegally pegged. It is now stated that the Government has been requested to declare the proclamation null, and to issue a fresh proclamation. The ground is reputed to be the wealthiest yet discovered. KING AT FAIR. LONDON. Feb. 26. “By Jove, where’s Baldwin?” asked His Majesty the King, when he noticed a huge pile of tobacco pipes at one stall of the British Industries Fair. “Here’s a beauty!” adedd the King, when ho saw an immense briar with a stem two foot long, the bowl of which holds an ounce of tobacco. “V by not send it to Baldwin?” queried the King. .Sir P. Cunliffo Lister explained that an aluminium pipe had been presented to Air Baldwin at Birmingham, but the Prime Minister so far had been afraid to smoke it.

His Alnjesty next noticed an inno-cent-looking exhibit, intended for America. Outwardly it looked like two handsomely bound volumes with the titles “Canterbury Tales,” and “The Assembly of Souls. ”• Someone discovered the top, and when it was opened there were revealed a whisky bottle and a svnlion.

Their Afajeslies also visited Now Zealand’s exhibit at the Trades Fair, and congratulated Air Drew on it. 4be Queen took samples of the cheese. She also noticed trays made of casein. She said she had previously bought some. DISARMAMENT. GENEVA, Feb. 26. The United States lias unexpectedly , notified the League of Nations of the ” acceptance of an invitation to partiticipnte in a conference on Ala roll 14th. for the purpose of drawing up a draft (.'(invention concerning the private manufacture of small arms. The U.S.A. note stresses, that America considers this conference purely a means of obtaining the fullest publicity of the statistics regarding both the private and the Governmental manufacture of war materials. LONDON, Feb. 26. Several of the Dominions’ replies concerning President Coolidge’s naval disarmament proposals have reached London. The “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent says that some of these are fairly definite, while others seek further information, particularly the British Admiralty’s views. Alore time is 'therefore required liefore a considered ‘ joint answer for the British and Dominion Governments can ber*' sent to Washington. WAR ON MOSQUITO. ’ LONDON, Feb. 26. Sir Donald Ross has jus#' returned from a four thousand miles tour of In- , ilia and Malaya. Nevertheless he was >4, in his laboratory yesterday planning a new mass attack on mosquitoes. Ho said: “The damage done by the mosquito costs millions annually, so it is time the Empire took an intelligent interest in the work of its prevention. It •takes a quarter of a century for the public mind to grasp the significance of a new discovery, and although we are now beginning to feel the benefit of the anti-malaria campaign; the task will not be completed until the end of this century. The efforts to check malaria are frequently undone by the neighbour who lets the mosquito breed at will, so I am preparing a scheme for the establishment of Malaria Boards to supervise and direct the work.

PORTUGUESE REVOLUTIONARIES LISBON, Feb. 26. J Ex President Machado has been exiled to Spain and tbe Royalist newspapers “Coreio da Manila” has been ’suspended. U.S.A. LOAN TO IRELAND. LONDON, Fob. 27. Mr De ATilcra has left for America. He goes ostensibly to watch the law suit in connection with the loan lie is- / sued there in 1920 in the name of the Trish Republic. Hie Irish Free State ■ claims the money, and it has accepted the responsibility to the bondholders. MILITA R IST’ S TRIRUTE. LONDON, Fob. 25. General Godlcy pays a special tribute to the services in peace time in New Zealand and in war time abroad of Major General C. AV. Melvill, the predecessor of Commandant Young. Melvill was the son of a lieutenant, who. with Cogliill, saved the colours at Isandhvana. THE PRAYER BOOK. LONDON, Feh. 25. The Lower House of Convocation heavily defeated a proposal to retain the bride’s promise to obey her husband in the revised prayer hook. The House of Bishops considers the convocation’s proposals on March 22m1. The Daily Telegraph’s ecclesiastical correspondent states: “The evangelical leaders have decided determinedly to resist the new Prayer Book at the Church Assembly in July next. Hie evangelists feel that the decisions of< the convocation have gone seriously ’ against them. The Anglo-Catholios are equal.v dissatisfied. The Primate has conferred with the leaders of Ixifh ’ the parties, but the outcome has not been revealed. There will be a position of extreme delicacy if the parties persist in their resistance.