BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1927, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

PJY TELEGIIAPU--PEtt PRESS ASSOCIATION.] BOBBING AND SHINGLING. LONDON, -May 24. ‘‘Twenty million pounds annually are spent by the women of Britain on bobbing and shingling,” said Mr Stewart, a hairdresser, and the Labour member of the House of Commons for St. Rollox Division of Glasgow. ‘Consequently a new occupation has been inaugurated, employing thousands of men and women, and it has saved hundreds of hairdressers from ruin. The average woman spends 25s to 10s annually on haircuts and this is comparing favourably with the cost oE the male shavings, hair cuts and shampoos.”

BIG QUAKE IX ASIA. BERLIN, May 24. An oscillation of double the intensity of that of the 14)13 earthquake in Japan has been registered by the Observatory at Frankfurt-on-Alain.- It is believed that the centre of tremor was in Eastern Tibet. LONDON, A lay 24,. Kew Observatory has registered a similar oscillation to that recorded at Frankfurt. SYDNEY, May 24. The Riverview Observatory authorities state that they are now confident that the location of the earthquake, cabled yesterday, was not Burma, or Assam, but North-Western China, and that the energy manifested in the records indicates that tlie upheaval wasS* on a very large scale. IRISH ELECTIONS. LONDON, May 24. The General Election in the Irish Free State begins to-day with the issue of the writs. A hot campaign is expected till the Bth. June. The Free State Ministers are already addressing the electors. There are eight parties in the field, namely, the Government, the Republicans. the Independents, the Clan Eire-’” ami Party, the National Farmers, Labour and Sinn Fein. Interest centres in the Republicans, who are led by Ah- de Valera. He is reported to have returned from America with plenty of money, and to have ample funds to put many candidates forward. Mr do Valera claims that he will take .supporters from the Government, in which case he even would enter the Hail Fireann and assume office, hut would refuse the oath, .tints immediately re-opening the Irish Treaty issue. Captain AVm. Archer Redmond leads the National Party. They are expected to put up a stiff fight. The alignment of the Parties will become clearer in a few days, when the manifestoes have been issued.

CRUISER EM HEX IX JAPAN. TOKYO, May 24. The German training cruiser, Emden, has arrived. She was enthusiastically welcomed. IN THE COAIAfONS. LONDON, Alay 24. In the House of Commons, the 4tli. day allotted to the committee stage of the Trades Union Bill was devoted to a Clause dealing with the prevention of intimidation. Sir Henry Slesser, K.C. (Labour), in moving the rejection of a portion of this Clause, argued that, as it was drafted, the Clauso could he interpreted as prohibiting peaceful persuasion, which has been permitted to the Trade Unions since 1875. The law, he said, already, and rightly, prohibited intimidation, but this Clause was an unnecessarily oppressing one. Air E. A. Harney, K.C. (Liberal) said that this Clause would make it risky for any striker even to talk to a non-striker, lest an attempt should he made to prove that the non-striker was apprehensive of an injury. Sir \\ . Joynson Hicks (Home Minister) declared that the Clause did not prevent peaceful persuasion. The law at present dealt with the intimidation of a rough and ready kind. This clause, however, aimed at its more subtle forms—for instance, where amyworkman’s wife and children were treated with contempt, and mental intimidation. Sir H. Slesser’s amendment was rejected by 281 votes to 125. The debate was then adjourned.