BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[by TELEGRAPH —I’ER PRESS ASSOCIATION, j PRIME .MINISTER’S VISIT. LONDON, March 2. Jack Jones, the Commoner, was cheered for saying at the London Trade Union meeting, that Cwm had received Mr Baldwin in a proper spirit. It was an effrontery when the Premier, who engineered Hie miners’ eight hour day and a reduction in wages, visited the district in the hour of travail. Hie House of Commons was shedding crocodile tears. RELEASED. LONDON. March 2. Missionary advice announces the release of the Metealfes (captured by brigands); OBITUARY. MALTA, March 2. Obituary.—Edgar Bonavia, who frequently acted as Governor in Congreve’s absence : thus two heads of tl« Government are dead. SOCIETY DIVORCE LONDON. March' 2. A sensational divorce ease has occurred at Edinburgh Court at tile instance of tlio twenty-two year old Countess of Kinnoul against the Earl of Kinnoul. whom she married in December, 1923. The marriage was one of the events of the season, the bride being a grand-daughter of Sir Frederick Wills, the millionaire tobacconist.

The Earl, prior to the marriage, was allegedly engaged to Airs Surlc, an exchorus girl, hut his family hurriedly packed him off to South Africa. A\ hen •lie returned he married the Countess, whose mother. Airs Margaret Hamil-ton-Fellowcs, died in October, leaving the Countess two million pounds. A FRENCH THEORY. PARIS, March 3. gun spots have a marked influence oil mortality according to AT. Alan rice Fa iu'e, a leading French physician. Lecturing at the Academy of Medicine, he declared that, as the result of several years’ observations, he had discovered tint whereas the death rate was 13 per ce’iit iiii ordinary days, it rose to 20 per cent, on the days will’ll there were sun spots.- He suggested that these were the cause of tl disequilibrium oil humaii vitality, which was cither a direct or a (•ontrtbwtiilg cause to a person’s death.LONDON ZOO'. v LONDON, Alarch 3. A holiday resort for animals from tiie London Zoo is being provided by the Coiiiieif of tliti Zoological Gardens, which has purchased a beautiful undulating estate of 400 iicres, 32 inilet from London, in which there will bo enclosures for breeding animals, surplus stock and animals from London requiring a rest or exercise. There also will lie sanctuaries for British birds and plants. The public will Ire able to view the animals and birds in their natural jungle surroundings, while the London Zoo will he made attractive by the inclusion of species that are unsuitable for the country park and the species to be retained will lie licidllifeT and not so cramped. INDIAN TROUBLE. DELHI, Alarcli 3. A Hindu festival at Ponalmltia (Bengal) ended in a conflict with Afoslcins. The combatants refused to disperse. They attacked the police, who then fired. The police killed 20 and -JO more were injured. A HUGE FIRE. DELHT, March 3. A disastrous fire occurred at Tavoy (in Rnrinah). It wiped out the town’s business quarter. Over eight hundred houses were destroyed. There are thousands now homeless.

V ATLANTIC FLIERS. MADRID, March 3. The aviator Borges left Sasablunca for Casablanca early last Wednesday. There lias I won no news of him since the n.A NATION IN ARMS. LONDON. March 3. The “Daily Telegraph’s'’ Paris correspondent states: “Followrng oft M, P.'tinlcyo’s announcement yesterday that the work on me French eastern frontier defences will be started in July next, there efimeS the news of the imminent introduction of >:i THU (nto the French Parliament, under’ whtelr France will become virtually a naiioil in arms, all classes of both sexes having their allotted duties and tasks.” “it is argued that, under the future conditions of vOr fare, the whole population will be liable to he the vietints of hostilities and therefore they must sfcftfe in the country’s defence. It is understood that the Bill will provide a niche for every adult, while everv Ministry must include a Defence Department covering its own sphere. Another bill will Follow, reorganising the Army. The Government insists that these measures do not indicate* anv loss of faith in disarmament.

NAPOLEON’S SON. PARIS. March 3.

There is a suggestion that the body of Mjpoleon’s son. the King of Romp who was nick-named “The Eaglet.’ should be brought from Austria to France, and should he buried in ‘l.O Invalids.” The suggestion lias captured the public imagination. It is proposed to bring the body by aeroplane.

FREEMASONS. LONDON. -March 3. The Masonic Grind Lodge has passed a resolution, with only three dissentients, authorising the Masonic lodges to re-ad nut ex-enemy brethren. By a unanimous vote the Grand lod T e has also approved of the formation"of a “Bar Sinister Lodge.” the founders of which must me illegitimates. or those who «are unable to trace their descent. This will specially provide for the admission of “unwanted” children to Masonic institutions.