BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) SUGAR POSITION. LONDON, Aug. I. Herr Lieht, the Magdelburg sugar authority, in his monthly circular estimates beet sugar production for the current season’s European campaign at 3,908,394 tons. CANADA’S WEI.C()4I F. OTTAWA. Aug. 1. The Prince of Wales, Prince George, Mr Baldwin and party drove through cheering crowds of 150,000 and were formally received by Mayor Martin. The Prince wore the uniform of a Colonel of the Seafortli’s Highlanders, and Prineo George was attired in a Naval Lieutenant uniform. Tllio Prince took a lively interest in the proceedings and reviewed a thousand Boy Scouts. Later engagements to-day include a visit to the Laval Sur Lo Lac Golf Club and a garden party at Senator MacDonald’s home. Air Baldwin in the meantime will luncheon ns the guest of the Canadian Club. The Prince sent the peonies to the disabled soldiers hospital.

Jilt BALDWIN’S SPEECH. (Received this day at 11 0 a.m.) OTTAWA, Aug. f. Mr Baldwin, addressing a gathering of one thousand at the Canadian Club declared the British Government were devoting five million dollars to the Empire Marketing Board to advance the idea and create a consciousness of Empire. He urged Canadians to buy British goods and hoped the remainder of the Empire would buy increasingly more Canadian products. -Mr Baldwin declared: “If anyone says Britain is decadent, he is making the biggest mistake in the wori'd. There never was a time when the Empire had more life than now. Its heart never was better. He appealed to young men to enter public life, warning them that trials ns well as rewards were great.” “ If any man docs not believe it, let him take half my job.” Concluding, Baldwin said: “Don’t be in too much of a hurry to become wealthy.” Mr Baldwin set a new fashion, addressing the Club in bis shirt sleeves,

owing to the oppressive heat. “It is only a q lies turn of time,” lie declared, before the practice of asking first for goods became ingrained in our nation, which whatever its other shortcomings has never been accused of i'aek of tenacity when once it has got a firm hold of an idea.”

SEAMEN'S CONFERENCE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 1. A very lively meeting, with threats of violence marked the Seamen’s Delegate Conference. The trouble arose out of the £IO,OOO loan proposal, cabled July 10th, and antagonism to Havelock Wilson, owing to this, and his advocacy of a. withdrawal from the Labour Party and the formation of a non-political federation of unions.

The meeting began with the suspension of Copter and Bond for allegedly making speeches inimical to the union and many other delegates were removed, ostensibly because their credentials were irregular. After this the stewards kept the closest guard on the building. Conflicting agenda papers had been prepared, one by Havelock AA ilson and the other by the Secretary, Davies, who had obtained an injunction restraining Ijho union from making the loan till the branches endorsed the proposal. Davies said he addressed many branches and all voted liostilely. He declared that Wilson, without authority, suspended three officials opposed to his policy. Davies threatened to hold, (with the support of thirty expelled delegates) a rival conference, hut tlio meeting by 52 votes to 7 expressed confidence in Wilson, and a motion was tabled to suspend the retiring age rule, so that Mr Wilson might continue in office till the Bed movement was scotched. Air Wilson proceeded with the attack, saying, he could not work alongside him, because be was not properly attending to his duties. Davis interrupted, protesting that according to the rules the President had no right to discuss the conduct of an official. Wilson retorted that he intended to proceed, whereupon Davies walked out, and later convened a rival conference at the local hostelry and this was attended by the expelled delegates. Wilson asked the conference to suspend Davies on the grounds of incompetency and disobedience. This was adopted unanimously. A committee was appointed to report on the conduct of Davies and others. E. Catlierley was appointed secretary in the meantime. Later a second victory was recorded

for Wilson when the conference endorsed by majority endorsed the miners loan.

WET BANK HOLIDAY. LONDON, Aug. 1. Bank holiday dawn found thousands of people sleeping out of doors at the seaside. There was such a coli'ossal 'Tush that every room "was taken at the resorts. A dismal drizzle, however, began early, awakening everybody and the rain continued practically everywhere in England all day. Every outdoor holiday sport was postponed.

HOLIDAY FATALITIES. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 1. There was a remarkable series of accidents, charabanc, motor car, cycle, road collisions and drowning are reported, involving 12 deaths and many cases of injury. The worst accident was the drowning of two brothers and a sister through the capsizing of a sailing boat pf Stnclland Bay. Pflphne

aPrtin, aged fifteen, the sole survivor, was found in a semi-conscious condition. (Tinging to the upturned boat which a squall had upset, and the occupants were thrown into the water, but they climbed on to the craft. Angela, aged twenty-one, a good swimmer. tried to reach the shore a mile and a-half away. She started in a rough sea and was not seen again. The eleven-year-old Henry slipped off the boat and the brother Lawrence, seventeen, dived after him, but became entangled in the ropes and both were drowned.

Lulworth Cove, Dorset, was the scene of another tragedy. Two cadets were camping on the downs and picked up a live shell dropped by a tank school at Bulworth. They threw it over a ledge into the roadway where it exploded, killing a nurse wheeling a perambulator 200 yards away. The babv was -unhurt.