BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

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GOOD WJjSHES. LONDON, Oct. 18. Sir Samuel Honro telegraphed to Cave Broun .wishing him a siutp.skul flight, adding. that flying boats should play a great part in the development of Imperial air communication, defeneo'and commercial purposes, as well ns showing how distant parts of the Empire can he linked up. PASSPORT REFUSED. LONDON, Oct. 13. Poland refused to visa a passport of the miners secretary, Mr Cook, to permit him to attend a meeting of tho Executive o? the Miners International at the Warsaw Trade Union Congress. He interviewed the British Foreign Office, which refused to intervene. TIN PROSPECTS. LONDON, Oct. 13. The world’s supply of alluvial tin will bo exhausted in 1927. according to a London expert, explaining the Anglo-American-Dutch plan to form a producers association to stabilise control and fix 'the price around )£3OO sterling per ton. Since 1920 tbe prico has fluctuated from £195 to £419 10s. The expert adds that it is urgent to discontinue unnecessary employment, for there are few if any new sources of supply nor has a practical, economic) substitute been discovered. It is calculated the world is losing its reserves at the rate of a hundred thousand tons yearly. It consumed four hundred thousand tons in three years.

. DAIRY SHOW AWARDS. (Received this day nt 10.25 a.m.'i LONDON, Oct. 18. The Dairy Show awards include: Butter: IJnsnlted—South Australian Co-operative (Alilang) 98 points 1: South 'Australian Co-operative (Adelaide) 97i> points 2; Alstonville Cooperative (N.S.W.) 9" points 3. Salted—Warwick Dairy (Queensland) 97 points 1; Canadian 9G points 2: Dungog Dairy (N.S.W.) 95 J points 3. Cheese—Edendale Dairy (N.Z.) 1 ; Canadian 2; Hopclands (Pahialua, N.Z.) 3. Bacon—South Africa 1 and 2. Australia and New Zealand were unplaced. COMMERCIAL. LONDON, Oet. 18.

The cargo market is idle, prices occasionally being threepence down. Parcels are in quiet request. Prices are unchanged to threepnce down. Liverpool futures: For October, 10/31; Deeember-March, 10/51; May, 10/32. A DROUGHT. CAPETOWN, Oct. 18. The prevalent drought in Cape Midlands is described officially as the worst for seventy years. There has been no good rains for five years. Tn six stricken areas six thousand families are being kept alive by relief measures. Millions of sheep are dead and ■the loss in six district alone is estimated at three millions sterling.

RAID ON ITALIANS. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) PARIS, Oct. 18. Twenty Italians were arrested during a police raid at Nice. All were alleged agitators, reported to have been seen attending Communist meetings. Photographs and finger-prints will he taken after which they will probably be deported.

NEW BOXING RULE. NEW YORK, Oct. 13. The National Boxing Association adopted a now rule suggested by the Tunney-Dempsey count mix up. Hereafter when a boxer is floored the timekeeper rises and begins to toll the seconds and the referee conducts the opponent to the farthest corner and then returns to the fallen boxer, taking up the count in unison with the time-keeper. Ten seconds therefore becomes the limit. SENSATIONAL FRENCH TRIAL. (Received this day at 12.25 o.m.'> PARIS, Oct. IS. The trial of Scliwarzbard on a charge of murdering General Petlura on May 25tli, 1926, has opened. One hundred and forty-nine witnesses have been cited, including Professor Einstein, Maxim Gorky. Russian, German, Polish, Ukranian and Yiddish interpreters wero present to deal with the polyglot evidence. It was mentioned that Scliwarzbard won the Croix de Guqrre when fighting in the French Foreign Legion during the world war. His conduct in Paris after the war was beyond reproach. Replying to the judge’s questions the prisoner said Petlura was rightly killed ns he ordered the Jewish pogroms. ANOTHER CHANNEL SWIMMER. LONDON, Oct. 18.

Gleitz left for Gris Nez in vindicn-, tion of her swim and the honour of England. She was farewelled by enthusiastic crowds. Slip declared she was confident of success, which view was not shared by expert channel swimmers many of whom say it is suicidal owing to the coldness. Gleik! says Dr Logan tried her best to dissaude her, because she feels responsible, but we were let down in the eyes of America, France, and others, whose representatives attempted the Channel swim,