BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[BY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] FOSSIL REMAINS. CALCUTTA, March 9. A scientific sensation is probable shortly when Doctor Pilgrim, of the Geological Survey of India, publishes a piper telling the story of the discovert* of the palate and lower jaw of a fossil' ape at Bilaspur, belonging to a period nearly one million years ago. Dr Pilgrim considers it possible that among the fossil apes of India. WO3 the actual human ancestor.

DURHAM POOR RELIEF. LONDON, March 8. How the Socialist Poor Law Guardians of Chester-Lo Street Durham, majority of the members being miners’ officials and miners’ wives, spent public funds during the coal dispute is no\v the subject of some amazing allegaA lions by a Government Commission. This Commission was appointed to replace the Board of Guardians on account of mal-administration. The Government Commission says: “AVith Trade Union assistance sympathisers at the commencement of the, ’ coal dispute took over the aclministration of the town incurring a debt of £178,000. They dismissed officials for refusing to make illegal .relief payments, while otherwise honest people had been degraded and corrupted. The Guardians’ administration between May and August last ■ was simply the maintenance of persons engaged in industrial dispute hv the trade union, out of public money.”

UNEMPLOYMENT. LONDON, March 9. In the House of Commons the Labourites moved a. motion in favour of the appointment of an impartial committee to again examine the unemployment problem. The motion was defeated by 252 votes to 142. Mr Lloyd George urged that this unemployment problem was a very serious social-economic symptom of the day. Not only was the cost of unemployment gigantic, he said, but there were to-day hundreds of thousands of young men growing up in enforced idle-

HUGE DEATH ROLL. TOKTO, March 9. The latest Japanese Home Office report states that the total casualties duo to the earthquake number 4,774. of whom 1,699 were killed in the Kyoto Prefecture. WASHINGTON. March 9. Mr D. F. Davis (U.S.A. Secretary for War) has cabled an offer to the authorities at Xokio of American aid in the Japanese earthquake disaster. Mr Davis has also requested the American Military Attache at Tokio to inquire whether the United States Mar Department could assist.. R \DIO-MOVE EXPERIMENTS. LONDON March, 8. In tlie House of Commons, Sir William Mitchell- Thomson (Postmaster General) replying to a question, said that the Post Office had issued a number of licenses to enable experiments to test the possibility of broadcasting still pictures and moving pictures.

INDIAN CURRENCY DELHI, March 9. After a prolonged controversy, and strong opposition from the Bombay mill owners, the Indian Assembly lias decided, by a majority of three votes, to .stabilise the rupee at one shilling and sixpence gold. FIRE AT AUSTR ALIA HOUSE LONDON March 9. The model of the Orient liner "Oronsay” in the window of Australia House, London, caught fire last evening, ow-v ing to tlie fusing of an electric connection. A passer-by noticed the window ablaze and summoned a. fire brigade, who quickly extinguished I4mk_ fire. There, was no damage to the building. r GLOBE TROTTERS’ LINER. LONDON, March 8.

The liner Carinthia has arrived at Southampton after covering 35,000 miles and visiting twenty-six countries. She was throughout in wireless connection with England and America. AIR FLIGHT TO INDIA. LONDON. March 8.

An expected spectacular non-stop dash to India will begin on Alay Ist. 'Hie British pilot hopes to reach Karachi (.four thousand miles) in fortyeight hours, and if this is impossible to carry on until a thousand gallons of petrol is exhausted. The crew will probably consist of a pilot, FlightLieut. C. It. Carr, a New Zealander, and Fliglit-Lieut. Gillman. Carr has been flying since 1916 and served with distinction in the war. He participated as an aviator in tlie Shackleton Antarctic expedition. BILLIARDS CHAAfPIONSHIP. LONDON. March 8. In the first heat of the Empire. Billiards Championship A. Prior (SJutli Africa) 2,000. heat H. F. Coles (Walls) 1.233. SHIPBUILDER DEAD. LONDON, March 8. Obituary.—Shipbuilder Arnold Frank Hills.