AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 July 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

lls. WHEAT CROP. NEW YORK, July

Chicago harvesting reports from an area extending from Dakotas to Texas indicates that tanners will enjoy mi-

other season of w h<'«it prosper)tv. which will crop almost ;is large ns I!Td, Despite unseasonable early spring' weather. Kansas yield is <'.\poeted to lie about 120 million 'bushels. The crop in Nebraska, Icxas and Oklahoma tall slightly below 1020. .Minnesota- is expected to he a little ahive last year. TRAIN COLLISION. (Received this day tit 11.0 a.tn.) IirKXOS AVI{MS. July 7. len were killed and thirty injured hv a train collision at Aptiteaiea in Mendoza Province. VOLCANO JX KRFITIOX. HONOU'M'. .Inly 7. Kiltmea \ oletino is in eruption with a .spectacular (low of lava, explosions and fountains of lire. REVOLUTION XI I’PEf). (Received this day at 11.0 a.nt.) NEW YORK, Juiy 7. The arrest of three men and the discovery ol 3-70 rifles si ml one hundred thousand rounds of ammunition addressed to Timiaco, Colombia, is believed by officials to have nipped a South American revolution in the hud.

.MILLIONAIRE DROWXKI). OTTAWA, duly 7. Jfodkins, a Chicago millioimire and two of a crew were drowneil. when a. speed-boat caught lire in Georgian May, Rake Huron. Pllll/LIPINE AKKAIRS. WASHINGTON', Julv 8.

Governor General Wood of Pbillipines, after a conference with Secretary Davis, said be hoped the islands would remain under the War Department. This view conflicts with a suggestion of the President to transfer the Department to the Ministry of the Interior. .Mr Wood said: "It needs the Department's strength to hack it up. It will he some time before it is ready for independence. I have put my shoulder to the wheel and must see it through.

SIR H. AfOORE’S A DDItMSS. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) WASHINGTON, duly 7. Sir If. .Moore in his last lecture, entitled “ Foreign Policy of Australia,” indicated that (luring the war the nation economies co-operation within the Empire acquired great strength ami was affirmed at the Imperial Conference of 1017. which outlined migration of Rritish settlers to Australia, stressing that the absorptive power of the country was limited by economic conditions. Australia’s opposition to Asiatic immigration had been the result of economic investigation. It is somewhat late in the day entering into our tiirilf discussion, hut both Rrituiu anil Australia arc now seeking noticoiitroversinl methods for trade cooperation. Mr Hughes was the first British statesmen during the war to call attention to the need of a revision of constitutional arrangement whereby the issues of peace and war coin'd he

decided by Britain alone and discussed in detail in it manner whereby the Dominions obtained a voice therein. He added that in Australia the position of the King’s representative as guardian of the law and constitution had never been abdicated. The League of Nations as an ideal commends itself . to Australians without generating either a feeling of increased present security or any real appreciation of the obligation and responsibilities it imposed.

Separate membership of the .League of Nations was not conceived, as it would he an abandonment of the unity

of Empire. He stressed .Mr Balfour's words that the Sovereign is the living symbol of the unity of the Empire. 'After quoting Henan’s definition of citizenship, Moore pointed out that in internal affairs tlie weight of Britain is still immeasurably greater than that of any Dominion or of all put together. Most of the Dominions were contented to enjoy the advantage that Britain’s diplomatic machinery affords. Australia was not concerned with a barren right to enter separate relations with foreign powers, but was satisfied witli the assurance that the whole weight of British diplomacy was on her side in any matter whether arising within or without the League.