BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LABOUR, CONFERENCE. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 3. Labourites assembled at Blackpool for their annual conference. The first business wns raised by the question, Why are teachers of the Labour League disaffiliated ? Mr Ramsay MacDonald explained the teachers are a body and they are anxious to be within the party but individuals of the League are so openly Communistic that there is no option hut to disaffiliate the League. The Conference then gave attention to Havelock Wilson, as a result of the Executive’s report expressing regret at the Seamen’s Union’s secession. Mr Crick asked why was the union not disaffiliated. No man liad done more to damage political Labour than Havelock Wilson. •Mr Herbert Smith moved to omit word “ regret,” because be said the seamen were better out of than in the movement. It looked as if the executive had been attending a prayer meeting.

Mr Arthur Henderson said in view of what recently happened, the executive in deference to the conference’s wishes would withdraw the word regret.

The afternoon was devoted to secret discussion on the serious state of tho finances, notwithstanding that affiliation fees had been doubled.

AN APPOINTMENT. LONDON, Oct. 3. Professor Ed. John Wynn, lecturer in Celtic languages at the University of Dublin, has been appointed Professor of Trinity College, Dublin. *'T' * A COMING TOUR. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 3. Francis Birtles, who is planning to travel overland in his veteran beam car “ Sundowner,” proposes to leave in tho middle of October.

WIRELESS GREETINGS. . LONDNO, Oct. 3. Premier Baldwin and Mr. Mackenzie King to-day exchanged greetings in the opening of the wireless telephony to Canada, for which the charge is £5 per minute. This service does not utilise the Canadian beam, concerning which experiments have not progressed enough to have a hearing on the possibilities of beam telephony to Australia. LONDON, Oct. 3. The Queenslander, Max Gornik, outpointed Hugo Izgaard, the leading German heavyweight. SPANISH PLOT. MADRID, Oct. 3. The authorities admit the plot (cabled on Saturday) but seek to minimise the significance, though they confirm the arrests and seizure of a large quantity of explosives.