GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1928, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, April 9. The Independent Labour Party Conference adopted the surtax and capital levy as definite planks in their programme. They re-elected Commoner Maxton as chairman and Commoners Aloseley, Shimvell and Kirkwood to the executive. The displacement of Commoner Wallhead by J. AY. Moore as fourth member of the executive caused surprise. BULL FIGHTING. MADRID, April 9. ' The inauguration of the bull fight- *-■ ing .season saw a trial of a new armour for picadors horses. Although several were wounded none were kill- « cd. The Government regarding the experiment as successful has ordered its use throughout Spain. MALTA POLITICS. .MALTA, April 9. The estimates at present held up by the action of the Senate (cabled on March 26th) contain provision for the appointment of a Commissioner of Migration to Australia. It was stated during debates on the Estimates, that the Government intended to appoint Captain Curmi, now attached to the Km ignition Department.

TURKEY’S CHANGE. CONSTANTINOPLE. April ]O. Tile Turkish National Assembly has passed unanimously a hill separating the Church from the State. It provides firstly that Islam shall no longer lie Turkey’s State religion ; secondly, that the Deputies and State officials in future will take the oath of office on their honour, and not in the name of God ; thirdly, that the National Assembly shall no longer he charged with the application of the Sheriat Law. REPLY TO DR BARNES. LONDON, April 10. A spectacular protest against Bishop Barnes’s modernism was made during A lass by two thousand Roman Catholics at St. Chad’s Cathedral, in Birmingham, where Dr Barnes resides. The protest was arranged in consequence of Bishop Barnes’s attacks on the doctrine of the Real Presence. Bishop Barnett conducted the service and the Cathedral was packed with men, who knelt bareheaded in the aisles and in the porches. liiis seivioe was a strange contrast to the Bank Holiday doings elsewhere in the Birmingham area. There were, however, crowds outside the Cathedral, who broke the police cordons, and knelt in the roadway to receive the Bishop’s blessing after Mass. MUSSOLINI. LONDON, April 16.

The Daily Chronicle’s Rome correspondent says:—All diplomatic loads now lead to Rome. Signor Mussolini is about to receive M. Bethlen. the Hungarian Prime Minister, also AT. Zaleski. M. Alichalaeohoulos. and Rushay Bey. the Polish, Greek and Turkish Foreign Ministers respectively, also Herr Koehler (German Finance Minister).

Signor Mussolini also has had conversations with the Jugo-Slar anil Roumanian Ministers, making it evident that he (Signor Mussolini) is engaged * in an offensive against the Little Entente. An agreement with Poland would strengthen Signor Mussolini’s position, as he has already won over Hungary to his Balkan viewpoint. He would then lie aide to deal with Bulgaria and Czecho-Slovakia at leisure. The relations between Jugo-Sla-via and Italy, moreover, arc much better for the result of exchanges of views. Signor Mussolini later on hopes to solve the Tangier-Tunis .problem. INDIAN AVORKERS’ STRUGGLES. DELHI. April 10. The labour disputes in India last year involved 131,700 people, find two million twenty thousand working days lost.

LADY HEATH TO HAVE ESCORT. CAIRO, April 9. Lady Heath has been forbidden to continue her flight to London without an escort. She- has thus far crossed Africa alone. The continuation of her flight will involve the crossing of the Mediterranean. DROWNING DISASTER. LONDON, April 10. Milan reports state that a motor boat disaster occurred on Lake Como. The boat was carrying twenty excursionists. when the rudder broke near Grotto Deline. Two women aboard grew frightened, ami threw themselves into the lake. The panic spread and then the boat capsized. Ten were drowned, including six children. PAPER’S POPULAR WOMAN VOTE. PARIS, April 9. Madame Curie, who. with her late husband, discovered radium, beads the list of the most popular women in France, in a ballot organised by the paper Quotidien, with Sarah Bernhardt second, and Evangeline Booth, the Salvationist, third. Edith Cavell comes eighth, and Suzanne Lenglen ninth. Other Britishers in the list were: Mrs Pankhur-t and George Eliot.