BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) S. S. ROTORUA’S MISHAP. LONDON', Sup. 2. When entering Southampton Docks to embark passengers for -New Zealand, the Rotorua struck the quay wall. Her sailing will be delayed until the hull is examined. She may leave lor New Zealand to-morrow. She has (560 boy emigrants.

PROFESSOR HI CHIT. LONDON. Sept. 5. Professor flight, who is returning to New Zealand in October via America to take over the rectorship of Canterbury College, has accepted invitations to lecture at Columbia, Washington and Leyland and Stanford University on route. Professor Right has to meet numbers of New Zealand graduates in responsible positions in England including three professors at Saint Andrews, two lecturers at Leeds and others at Liverpool and .Manchester.

BRISTOL CHANNEL SWIM. LONDON. Sept. 5. Miss Kathleen Thomas, a Penarth girl of twenty, swam the Bristol Channel for the first, time in history. The feat is regarded as equal to UnEnglish Channel swim. She started from Penarth at 8.15 in the morning and arrived at AVeston-Super-M''re at 11.85. The direct distance is twelve miles hut Kathleen swam nearer twenty going in dangerous currents from seven rivers running into the Channel. as well as one of the highest tides ill the world. Previous attempts always failed under half way. Kathleen’s swim was secret. She refused to disclose her (raining place to avoid publicity, ami it was not till she nearly readied Weston that tins crowd recognised v.lat was astir and the whole town rushed to the beach to see the Welsh girl land. She was perfectly fresh and swum strongly the whole way except at one had patch in the centre when the seven different tides met. Through Ibis she was directed by her brother, a Bristol Channel pilot.

HICKS’ ADDRESS. LONDON, Be| t. 5. Ilicks in a presidential address at the Trades Union Congress in Edinburgh assailed Ihe Trade’s Union Bill

as a futile attempt to suppress sympathy and growth of class conscious ness and despite protestation. the* shadow over the mining industry was blacker, more Sombre and more ominous than ever. Poverty was worse and over a million people were living precariously on poor relief. Act in 1924-25, 80,415 earned an aggregate of £517.000, COO. Labour’s taskin remedying this lay in developing political activity to confer on the people the real ownership and control of Britain and her resources. A conference of organisations of employers and employed would do more than the Clovernmeiit’s vague industrial peace aspiration. Concerning Russia where methods sometimes showed crude arrogance flicks said they must remember her leaders and think in terms of the 1 rule they suffered in the Czarist days.

BEATEN TO DEATH. CAPETOWN. Sept. 5. Evidence that witchcraft, still survives in. South Africa, was given in an extraordinary ease heard at King ’Williamstnwn, when eight youths were sent- to prison for killing an old native woman. After a native dance the youths went into a hut lor further rites, when the woman entered, and is alleged to have stated her intention to bewitch the boys. 'lbis greatly alarmed the hoys who heat her to death, believing it the only way of saving themselves irom a spell.

COMING .FASHIONS. LONDON, Sept. 5. What is Miss London going to be this autumn, was a question at a secret trade show at Olympia. “Oh, ladylike,” replied a dress designer, “and this winter very ladylike. Evening skirts will be longer, some having two yards trains, and others deeply fringed skirts and waists generally will he two inches higher. Sports dresses are slightly longer, but day dresses are unchanged. Hats will be quieter, fitting like a skull cap, inlaid with trimmings of brass studs, leather discs and mosiac colours. Mannequins parading show new morning suits, aviation suits, lioudoir suits, all with trousers. The latest dress colours include peach stone, musk pink, naples yellow. Veronese green. Stockings arc all shades, with brown hand painted pansies on the knees.

AIR DISASTER. PARIS, Sept. 5. An Army plane flying low in a. fog crashed and took fire. The pilot and observer were burned to death. “PRIDE OF DETROIT” DELHT, Sept. G. The “Pride of Detroit” has left Karachi for Allahabad.

CHINESE PIRATES. (Received this dav at 11.0 a.m) HONG KONG. Sept. 5. Following the piracy of the steamer Kowchow when a British engineer was murdered and the ship looted and hostages taken, British naval operations were carried out at West river district against two pirate infested villages. One was burned to the water front and the other shelled, after the inhabitants had been warned to evacuate.

WIRELESS FOR HOSPITALS. CAPETOWN, Sept. C. As a result of a newspaper campaign on behalf of Toth, all Capetown Hospitals will he fitted with wireless headphones for each patient. Johannesburg is making a similar effort.

obituary. LONDON, Sept. f>. Obituary General Townlev Bowding, aged eighty.