NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1927, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

BRITISH EMPIRE I’OI.KT. NEW YORK. July 1. Sir Harrison Moore, in his second lecture at Chicago, on the snhjoct ol the British Empire and its problems, dealt villi matters of foreign policy, trade .immigration and the White Australian policy and defence from an Australian standpoint. Britain’s interests were world wide and in the earlier stages of colonial development controlled from Britain hut undergrowing colonial self government, complete British responsibility and control was abandoned and preferential agreements, first among groups of colonies and then between Colonies and foreign countries liceame recognised as domestic matters. Meantime another Imperial trade movement took shape as a voluntary co-operative policy of Empire wide preference, advocated by Hon .T. Chamberlain and Mr Doakin. Economic co-operation within the Empire. aiming at aintenaneo of standard of living. 'I his was low m Asiatic countries, which were nearest Australia geographically, and India. China, and Japan were believed to he seeking an onti’et for their teeming population. Alter much discussion it had heen recognised that the Dominions must share the responsihilty in the direction of naval defence with Britain. The value of schemes for co-operation attained here is shown was as characteristic of the Australian policy now. as a generation ago. Coincident with this was the new importance of immigration. which now was completely a matter of domestic control for each country of the Empire. Though the attainment of this position produced difficulties owing to the susceptibilities of sonic foreign nations, the W bite Australia policy formed a phase of the economic policy of wartime by the Australian navy.

FORTFNES FROM BORTSTNr:. HARTS. May 20. Parisian hairdressers are rapidly liecoming millionaires. Their rapid rise to fortune is the outcome of the bobbed hair fashion, which has caused an increase in the number of elaborately litiing hairdressing establishments- reserved wholly for women from 2'i in 1 HI4 to more than 500 to-day.

Fashionable hairdressing ...Moons are being sold and resold at continually soaring prices, and it is said that

some women’s hairdressing businesses have changed hands at a* high a figure ns £IOO.OOO.

FTGHT FOR CORPSE. NEW YORK. May 30. A fish story, 'which, despite its apparent incredibility, is declared to be true, is told to-day by a diver from Seattle, rejoicing in the name of A. E. Hook. Hook protests that yesterday he was 50t't. under water-repairing a fish net

when he sighted a gigantic octopus making its way along the bottom of the sea. hearing in its tentacles the body of a man. Willi his pike-pole Jlook attacked the monster. The water grew ci'oudy as the sea-monster fought grimly with all the power of its immense arms to ward off the pike and retain its human prey. Hook says lie concentrated his thrusts tin the middle section of the demon, cutting its body to pieces. After a terrific battle, lasting more than half an hour, the octopus finally sank hack on the muddy bottom of the sea. and Hook cut loose its tentacles from the body. He brought the body ashore, where it was identified as .that of a cook named Hcalv who, with four others, was drowned earlier in the week when the tugboat Warren foundered on its way from Seattle to Victoria.

WOM AX MISPJRECTS TR AFFIC. PARIS. May 30. Traffic was held up at one of the principal avenues of Paris, leading to the Bntignolles quarter, for liearly three-quarters of an hour yesterday evening by a supposed " policewoman.’’ Attired in a smart blue uniform and holding a white baton she misdirected the traffic in a most genial manner, xno whole avenue was blocked with a dense mass of motor-cars until the din of the motor-horns brought two policemen to the scene. The would-be woman constable was at once taken to the police station and the traffic gradually sorted itself out. The woman gave her name ns Mine. Aline Gouiliou. and declared that, as she had heard that a women’s police corps was about to he formed, she thought she would have a little preliminary practice. She has, however, been identified as a very unlikely candidate for such a police corps as she is on ticket-of-leave. having undergone a Inner sentence of imprisonment.