CONDENSED CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 123, 28 April 1925, Page 9

CONDENSED CABLES.

In the billiards match in England Newman 16,0U0 beat Reece 10,092. An agreement has been signed settling outstanding problems between luikey and Greece. Mrs Richard Leuthal was found in her home at Maryborough, Queensland, with her throat cut with a razor. She died in hospital.

King George, when in Paris, decorated M. Painleve (French Premier) with the Grand Cross of the Victorian Order. The President of the Republic of Portugal tendered his resignation, hut the Chamber hy 106 to 14 declined to accept it.

In the English Amateur Close Golf championship, T. F. Allison, Royal Liverpool, boat S. Robinson, Southport and Ainsdale, one up. The French Chamber of Deputies voted a credit of 35 million francs for the first installment for building a light cruiser, three destroyers, four torpedo boats, and a number of small craft. At the conclusion of a municipal election meeting in Paris, communists ambushed the adherents of M. Millerand’s organisation of patriotic youth. There were three killed and eight wounded, all being Millerandites. The Duily Telegraph states that reports from'Egypt suggesting that the British Government is prepared to withdraw the army of occupation to the immediate neighbourhood of the Suez Canal are unfounded; even Mr MacDonald during negotiations with Zaglilul last year flatly declined to consider such a proposal. At the Wembley Stadium the Association football cup final was played before 9U,U()U people, the Duke and Duchess of York being present. Sheffield United beat Cardiff City by one goal to nil. Mr Ramsay MacDonald and party were seated immediately next the Royal Box. At the interval they were invited by the Duke and Duchess to sit with them, Mr MacDonald being in close conversation with the Duchess until the end of the game. M. Vail de Velde (Brussels) has informed the King that he is unable to form a Cabinet. The sculptors, A. G. Walker and William MacMillan, who designed the War medal, have been elected associates of the Royal Academy. The Socialist Congress at Brussels passed a resolution affirming the futility of continuing negotiations with other parties with a view to forming a Cabinet.

The decree ordering the big five meat packers of Chicago to divest themselves of all holdings outside the meat business lias been suspended by the District of Columbia Supreme Court. The decree was not declared void, hut is suspended in its operation indefinitely. When unveiling the memorial at Zeobrugge the King of the Belgians was saluted by the guns of the Caledon and by shore batteries. At the conclusion of the speeches British sailors and members of British and Belgian societies laid wreaths on the memorial.

Jn a wrestling match at Melbourne, Tliye beat Knrasick in seven rounds. Each secured a fall, but Karasick was compelled to retire owing to slight concussion.

On the arrival of the steamer Arafura at Sydney from the East, customs officials discovered over a thousand tins of opium valued at more than £IO,OOO on the vessel.

As a protest against the shooting of natives in Bloemfontein, the African National Congress at Johannesburg adopted ' a resolution : “That the native population boycott the visit of the Prince of Wales.” It is explained that this docs not affect the loyalty of the natives to the Crown, which the Congress specially affirmed, but it is to demonstrate the grief of the natives at the policy which can lead to such incidents. It is not believed, however, that the boycott will be generally endorsed.

Crowborougli, the scene of the murder by Thorne, has again been shocked by tlio discovery of tlio body of a little girl, Joan Ainmetts, aged ten, lying dead with her head battered and throat out (states a London message). Bloodhounds followed the trail lor a mile and a-lialf and then lost it. Joan went shopping and her .parents are unable to conjecture what happened. An Adelaide message states that at the trial of Mrs Cle/rgctt who allegedly shot her husband after a quarrel, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.