BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS.

I Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

AFRICAN FLAG CONTROVERSY. (Received tins day at 8.30 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Oct. 19. The flag controversy took a fresh turn to-day, when, following a powerful appeal by a prominent oppositionist the Government accepted the adjournment of the second reading debate, to allow another attempt to he made to rent'll an agreement.

NORWEGIAN ELECTIONS. OSLO, Oct. 19.

The final poll results are:—Labour 58, Conservatives 31, Liberals 30, Fanners 28, Communists 2. The Conservatives lost twenty-four seats to Labour and Farmers. It is expected an antiLabour Coalition Government will be formed, with a Farmer as Premier.

FREIGHTS FOR BUTTER.. LONDON, Oct. 19. For over two years the London agency of the Australian Dairy Board has been endavouring to obtain a reduction of freights on butter. The efforts at last have been successful.

the shipping companies having decided to grant concessions on the fallowing r* basis:—lf shipments of butter for the twelve months from July Ist to 30th June exceed 40,000 tons, shippers receive an allowance of 2.) per cent; if they exced 45,000, 5 per cent; if over 70,000, 7f per cent. , “ WHEAT CARGOES. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 19. Wheat cargoes are weak in sympathy with North and South American advices. Quotations sixpence to a shilling down did not attract attention. Parcels were in moderate request at similar declines. A DOCTOR MARRIED. LONDON, Oct. 19. Dr. Barnett from Otago University, who recently obtained a degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Cambridge for research in wireless, was married to-day to a daughter of Dr Deleon, of Cambridge. SYDNEY BROADCAST. LONDON, Oct. 19. Confirmation of the success ol Sydney’s broadcast continues to bo received from amateurs, all of whom fail to understand the sudden cessation. C. G. Allen, of Kent, picked up the entire transmission. It was faultless, not a word was marred. MR COOK’S HOLD-UP. LONDON, Oct. 19. On the strength of a telegram from Warsaw, Mr Cook announced to-day that Poland had instructed their London Consul to issue him a visa to enable him to visit the Miners’ International. The executive therefore urged him to come by aeroplane, adding that they were postponing the opening of the Conference. Mr Cook visited the Consul and discovered it had not received any such instructions, and ho was refused a visa. Cook announced he will not now go in any case. Tho International must manage without him or meet in another country. TAIL SHAFT BROKEN. LAS PALMAS, Oct. 19. Tho Bendigo arrived with the propellor boss missing and the tail-end shaft broken. She is returning to Falmouth for repairs.

birtles next jaunt. LONDON, Oct. 19. The car Birtles will use for his trip to Australia is the same as that employed for the Sydney to Darwin record. It resembled an ironmongery shop with spare wheels, chains, tincans and toolboxes, the whole outfit

contrasting strangly with luxury limousines, nnd liveried chauffeurs standing in Olympia. He drove with an open exhaust roaring alwve London’s traffic. Every bus driver, with craning neck and open-mouthed astonishment and even horses turned to look. Birtles has no language but his own, but reckons to get along all right. He expects to be fivo months cn route, via Europe*, Syria, Irak, Persia, Burma, Siam, Sumtra, Java, thence ship to Darwin and overland to Sydney. Parts of Siam and Malay have not been traversed by a car.