OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1930, Page 6

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

R Y-E LECTION NECESSARY. (British Official, Wireless). RUGBY, Jan. 1. The elevation to the peerage of Air Arthur Ponsonby, Labour member for Rriglitside, Sheffield, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Foreign Office, has caused a. vacancy necessitating a by-election. At the last election Air Ponsonby had a majority of over 10,000 in a three-cornered contest. TRAMS ABOLISHED. TRANSPORT IN ROME. RUGBY, January 2. The city’s transport has been revolutionised in a single day, which happened to be wet, causing endless confusion. Tramsears have been entirely banished from the centre of the city, ill Livour of omnibuses which will link up with a circular tramway system on the outskirts. THE PRINCE’S TOUR. PRIVATE ARRANGEAI ENTS. I RUGBY, January 31. The journey of the Prince of AVales to East Africa for big game shooting is to be kept private from start to finish. There will be no public engagements and the Prince at present does not know where lie will begin bis shooting expedition, all arrangements having been left in other hands. lie expects to be out in the bush for five or six weeks, and the expedition will finish at the end of March. The Prince will then return to England, but bis plans for the homeward journev have not yet been made.

The Prince will sail in the Kenliworth Castle from Southampton on Friday as an ordinary passenger. On reaching Cape Town, the Prince will he the guest of the Governor-General, the Earl of Athlone, for the period of from ten to fourteen days' that lie remains in the Union. He was travel from tlie Cape to Lake Tanganyika by rail to Broken Hill, and thence by motor-car., GENERAL SMUTS. HIS TOUR OF AMERICA. RUGBY, January 1. General Smuts, who arrived at New York yesterday for three weeks’ visit to Canada and the United States, proceeded at once to Ottawa to meet the Canadian Prime Minister,. Mr AY. L. MacKenzie King. He is due to return to New York on Saturday where, as the guest of the League of Nations’ Union, lie will address a number ol meetings in connection with the tenth birthday ctf the League. He will also address the Council of Foreign Relations, the Foreign Policy Association, the Carnegie Endowment, and the International Peace Association.

General Smuts will visit several other cities, including Washington, where lie will meet President Hoover.

AIR AJAX’S FUNERAL. S', :'ADRi IX-I7EADKR jonesWILLIAMS. RUGBY, Janua. / 1 The funeral of Squadron-Leader A. G. Jones-Williams, who with Flight-Lieu-tenant N. H. Jenkins lost his life when the Royal Air Force- monoplane crashed at Tunis while attempting a flight to Capetown, took place this afternoon in tin- family burial ground at Hassocks, in Sussex. Tlie coffin covered with tlie Union •lack, was borne by air craftsmen, and a guard of honour was furnished by the 23rd Fighter Squadron of the Royal Air Force, at Kenlev, to which the de-l-eased officers were attached before being chosen for special service.

THE KING’S MESSAGE. GREETINGS TO THE EMPIRE. RUGBY, January 1. Tn a telegram to the Lord Mayor of London acknowledging New Year greetings the King says: “ I deeply value the affectionate allusion to my restoration to health and to the Queen and members of my family. I fervently join in the hope that God’s blessing, peace and general well-being may he vouchsafed to the nations of the world, and may the* New Year inspire the people of our Empire with a solemn resolve to secure an increasing measure of prosperity. There are difficulties to he overcome, hut those I know will be faced with the courage and enterprise traditional to the citizens of London.”