BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1927, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[by TELEGRAPH— PER TRESS ASSOCIATION.] LORD RANFURLY’S home. LONDON, .March 3. Lord Ranfurly, owing 1 o taxation, has decided to sell Northland House, Iyrone, which has been in the occupation ol the family for centuries. RE A.M WIRELESS. LONDON. March 3. Marconi.-, have requested the I’ost Ollice to commence an official beam test on Monday. They are most sanguine -of success. NEW TITLES 141 LL. LONDON. March 3. The Royal Titles Bill was introduced in tlie House of Commons. It provides that 11 is .Majesty the King may. in six months after the passing of the Act. alter the style of the titles appertaining to the Crown as seenis lit. The Bill also alters the style of the present Parliament to that oi ■■ The Thirty-fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.” WAR. GUILT LIE. HEREIN. March 3.

Maiming the completion of the publication of the War’s history, the Reichstag staged a propaganda demonstration against “ The War Guilt Lie ” under the auspices of the societies and the women's committees interested. The Chancellor, Dr Marx, congratulated the Germans on being the first to attempt to discover the truth. Nobody could now maintain the accusation that Germany had disseminated world wide* haired, laden with war propaganda. Ilerr Schnee and Herr Bartholod.v endorsed this view. President Ifindenburg contributed a commemorative pamphlet, calling the world frankly to respond to Germany’s confession of faith. Herr Strcseinann (Foreign .Minister) invited an impartial World Court to try the question of the responsibility of the Europeon War.

A FRENCH -MYSTERY. PARIS, March 3. The Magistrate in charge of the enquiry concerning the death of the English nurse May Daniels (whose body was found in a decomposed state, and whose death some doctors attribute to the effect of an injected drug) lias made a definite request, through diplomatic channels, for the presence ot Nurse McCarthy, in order for her to make a statement concerning a visit to the keeper of Napoleon’s Column, where the body was found. In a sworn statement. Nurse .McCarthy said that she saw .May Daniels, whom she positively recognised, in company with another girl, but she was unaware of her disappearance or the discovery of her body until .Monday. Nurse McCarthy says further:— “They asked me the shortest way to Boulogne. One, of them wanted to go there and the other wanted to go to Wimereaux. Finally, after discussion, they walked towards Wimereaux.’’ BRITISH ARMY. LONDON. .March 3. In the House of Commons the current year’s army estimates were tabled and the total is C-H .505.000, compared with C 12,300,000 last year, and £32,300,000 in 1922. The current year’s figures, however, do not include the cost of the “China Defence Force,” for which there are supplementary estimates providing for C950,()00, of which £570.000 will he absorbed in the sea transport. COLLIERY DISASTER. LONDON, March I. In the ('win Colliery, the rescue parties were threatened at every step with the most deadly gas fumes, but j they managed to penetrate the wall o' rock, and then they located twentyfour out of the twenty-nine remaining bodies. ’The Black Vein of the twin Colliery i-, described as the scene of a veritable slaughter house, fill of maimed and mutilated bodies. Hi another section of the workings, nine bodies were found seated in perfectly natural positions on stone slabs, some leaning on their elbows or lull-1 iug back as though talking to each other. The eyes were wide open. So life-like did the corpses seem that the rescuers were thrilled with hope, but when they touched the bodies, they fell. It appears that these men had retreated behind a safety door at the first sound of the explosion to await rescue, but the deadly came through the door. LONDON, March 4. Lord Mayor Blades has opened in London a Mansion House found for the relief of the widows, orphans and dependants of the miners killed in the Ctvm and Bilsthorpe mining disasters, to the number of 71. STEAMER DAMAGED. LONDON. -March I. The steamer Barrdale from Port Pirie for Bristol Channel struck a submerged object on March 2nd. breaking the after peak engine room starboard bilge. FEMAI -E ACR OB AT 11 UR T. LONDON. March L During a. turn in which she was being whirled round by the enklcs by her partner, Miss Hazel Harris, an American acrobatic dancer, was flung across the stage at the Holborn Empire Theatre, and was injured. .Miss llbrris told the “Daily Express:” “The last time that I did this turn in Australia was about two years ago. One night my partner lost, his grip and I was tiling over the lootlights into the second row of the stalls. We then vowed that we never would do this act again. However, wo felt that we must do the act lor this engagement, but wo shall now discontinue it.” DIAMOND RUSH. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN. Maidi I. Elaborate precautions to prevent a repetition of the recent fiasco at ( raslontein diamond diggings . proved successful, and the rush was carried out satisfactorily. Huge sums were offered professional runners to secure claims. One of South Africa’s best runners refused £IOOO sterling to peg out four claims. Others accepted. N.S.4Y. POLITICS. SYDNEY. March 4. Pandemonium reigned in the New South Wales Assembly to-day. when the Government sought the endorsement of the House to the Legislative Council’s amendments to the Liquor Bill. The Government was defeated three times. On one occasion it Was beaten by 37 votes to 35 on a motion for the application of the gag. Oil a second ' " was defend'' 1 by 37 votes to 35 on the Legislative Council’s amendment permitting liquor to be served with meals till nine o’clock at night in the restaurants holding wine licenses. On the third occasion the deteat was on the Council Amendment granting the licensees the right of appeal. These Government defeats were due, however, to the fact that live members of the Labour Party, Doctor Evatt. Messrs Booth. Stuart, Robertson, Murphy and McCJirr all refrained from voting. . , . , . The Opposition went wild with jubilation and there were choruses of ’‘Resign! Resign!” ‘ The House Accepted the Council s other amendments and the final stage of the measure was carried by 11 votes to 39.