BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

' Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) A WEDDING. London, sept. 28. The New Zealand dairy expert, Mr A. C. Ross, has been married to Mrs Morris-Holak, of St. Ilelicr’s Bay, Auckland. TRADE UNION PRESIDENT. LONDON, Sept. 28. Ben Turner (President of the Textile Workers) was elected Chairman of the Trade Union General Council, and President of the Congress of 1928. PRICE OF GOLD. LONDON, Sept. 28. Gold is 84s 10J<1. JUTE CROP. DELHI, Sept. 28. A revised forecast of the Indian jute crop is 10,230,000 hales, a reduction on last year’s revised total amounting to 1,958,000 hales. There was a decrease acreage of 470,000. WOOL LEVY. LONDON. Sept. 23. Tho British Association of Woollen Worsted Industries, proposes a levy on nil raw wool' imports to raise funds to carry on scientific research. The “Yorkshire Observer’’ understands the west riding textilists. approve of a private authorising hill, which probably will he introduced in the coming session.

The Wool Federation sub-committee after sounding trade organisations on the- proposed levy of fid per hale, finally favoured a small levy on every hundred 'pounds. The burden of the Association’s work lias hitherto fallen on the manufacturers. The “Observer” understands the raw materinj section now favours co-operation, especially in view of the possibility of a cessation of the Government subsidy of £4803 shortly.

FURTHER DETAILS. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 28. Quick developments brought Scotland Yard within measureable distance of arresting Gutteridge’s murderers. Tho abandoned motor-ear found nt Brixton was stolen from an Essex doctor on the night of the murder and was evidently used by the desperadoes. Besides a spent revolver cartridge fitting tho bullet in Gutteridge was found inside the ear. There are a series of finger prints on the wind-screen which are of supreme value. A waterside worker also picked up a heavy service revolver on the Thames foreshore at Hammersmith Bridge when the tide receded. It obviously had been in the water only n few hours. The cartridges were similar make nnd calibro to that found in the doctor’s car.

BUDAPEST, Sept. 28. Greatest interest was a roll sod by the publication of tho hitherto undisclosed preliminary note of April 15Ilt, 1920, signed by M. Pnleologne, then the French Foreign Secretary, and also by Sir Francis Carder, which was handed prior to the signature of the Trinnon Treaty to the Hungarian Consul Denzey for delivery to his Government.

ft offered Hungary frontiers identical with abnographic limits of various Hungarian nationalities for exceeding Hungary’s present extent. It is more favourable in other ways than treaty conditions, particularly in connection with the promotion of satisfactory relations with adjoining States. The note included in Hungary one million borderlanders now severed from the country and proposed plebiscites in German-Hnngarian territories.