BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

[by TEI.EOHAI’II PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BILL. LONDON. April fi.

Air Barr hacked by all Scottish Labourites lias circulated a bill seeking to confer on Scotland a single House ot Representatives of I I-' members. If the lull is passed. Scottish representation in tiie House of Commons will cease. The Lord High Commissioner in Scotland will lie appointed to represent the King. The Scottish Parliament will deal with all domestic affairs, except defence forces and foreign affairs, which will he administered jointly by Imperial and Scottish Minis tors.

ITALY AND AUSTRIA. ROME. Ala reh C. Mussolini and Bethlen have signed an Italo-Hungarian Treaty of triendship. conciliation and arbitration. COALM ERCTaL. LONDON. April G. Gold is Sis ltd. P. and O. 27«5. Tallow sales—loll casks offered and 982 sold. There was a good demand with prices generally unchanged. Low and medium 3d in advance. FER DIN A NO’S CON DITION (Received this dnv at 11.0 a.m.) AHKNNA. April 7. “Neue Frei Prosso” states King Ferdinand received the Extreme l'notion on 3rd. April and his death is expected hourly; Favourable official bulletins are being issued, designed to quieten the populace, as the succession is causing nervousness. The National Peasants’ Party is urging the King to summon a Crown Council to make the 1926 decree, excluding Carol from the Throne, .retrospective. LATER. Sensational reports continue from Bucharest regarding the death agony of Ferdinand. It. is declared that hope of saving his life is abandoned. Oil Sunday his body wasted to a skeleton and does not weigh more than SO lbs. Ills heart is steadily weakening and death is believed to he a question of days, though the doctor says he may linger a month. AYildest ru mop is are circularising about Carol’s movements to the effect that a number of Roumanians, financiers and speculators are waiting with an aeroplane to rush him to Bncbaiest at the moment of Ferdinand's death. Nevertheless Carol is going about unconcernedly in Paris, thou;he is in closest touch with the King’s condition. SHIPOWNER.S’ D FC ISDN. BERLIN, April fi. Tlie Association of German Ship Owners and tin- East Asian t'nion decided not to accept shipments of win material for China. NEAV BANK OF ENGLAND. LONDON, April 6. The new Bank of England building is now being erected and includes elaborate defences. It will he possible in event of invasion and other emergency to Hood the vaults from three points, one within the hank, one elsewhere in London and a third ten miles from London. The walls consist ot reinforced concrete blocks. An attempt to remove a single block will give an electric alarm. AYORLD'S SMALLEST BABY. LONDON. April 6. The smallest baby in the world was horn at Battersea. It weighs two pounds two ounces and measures fifteen inches, resembling a doll. It has been tended day and night since December and is thriving.