NEWS BY CABLE.

Otago Witness, Issue 4030, 9 June 1931, Page 45

NEWS BY CABLE.

THE SPANISH INFANTA. PARIS, June 4. The Spanish Infanta Beatrice is affianced to Prince Alvaro of BourbonOrleans. EMPIRE FORESTRY. 4 . • LONDON, June .5. Sir Thomas Wilford and Sir Granville Ryrie (Australia) were elected to the Council of the Empire Forestry Association. PRESIDENT DOUMERGUE. PARIS, June 1. President Doumergue, who is 67 years of age, was married to Madame J. Graves at a quiet ceremony at the Elysee, the Mayor officiating. HASTY DEPARTURE. KOVNO, June 6. The papal nuncio, Monsignor Bartoloni, has been expelled from Lithuania owing to alleged collaboration with anti-Governmeiit parties. He was ordered to leave within 24 hours, and departed by car. EGYPTIAN POLITICS. CAIRO, June 2. The final elections for the Chamber deputies have been a triumph for Sidky Pasha. Ninety per cent, of the elector delegates . registered their votes. The Senate election will be held on June 11. and 'Parliament will assemble on June ’ 20. • UNREST IN MOSCOW. LONDON, June 6. The . Times Riga correspondent says that travellers from Moscow report serious strikes, bread riots, and street demonstrations for the past week, with 50 killed and 300 wounded in clashes with the. Soviet mounted police.. There have been, wholesale arrests and deportations.

< IMPERIAL FRUIT. SHOW. : LONDON, June 2. Although the exhibit's at the Southern Hemisphere's section of the Imperial Fruit 'Show were not numerous, the quality and appearance made up for the lack Of 1 numbers, and highly pleased the judges. Mr J. A. Fraser (Mahana, New Zealand) gained third prize for Starniers. •' : f ’ JILTED LOVERS. ■ =.. .. ■ ■ -BUDAPEST, June 2. Eiiwling life as jilted lovers intolerable two young farmers?; Imre Kezer.and Imre, Borsanyi, decided to commit suicide by a .-..most modern method. They tied ■ a stone to a piece of .wire, which they threw. ,p ver, a cable carrying 60,000 volts. They .simultaneously grasped the dang-ling-end and were immediately electro.cuted. , . HOURS IN MINES. LONDON, June 2. The Geneva Coal Committee adopted by '3O votes to 15 the suggestion of the Labour Office’s draft convention that the Working day of miners throughout' the world should not exceed seven and three-quarter hours, and rejected the workers’ proposal of seven hours and the employers’ proposal of eight hours, both by 29 to 16. INFERNO IN RUMANIA. BUCHAREST, June 4. A wide area around the oil refinery at Moinesci was speedily converted .into a sea of flames when lightning set fire to a group of oil reservoirs. The inferno was created so suddenly that it is feared that many oil workers were burnt to death. The panic-stricken populace evacuated the town. The firemen were powerless. FRANCE AND RUSSIA. LONDON, June 2. The Paris correspondent of The Times says: “As a result of continued representations from Moscow, the Quai d’Orsay has re-opened conversations with the Soviet Embassy for an improvement in Franco-Russian trade relations. Some attempt, it is understood, is being made to discuss debts and the Soviet’s suggestion for a non-aggression pact.” - PRESS CRITICISM. ATHENS, June 5. In consequence of offensive attacks by newspapers, from which the victims have no redress except to thrash the offending journalists, the Chamber of Deputies read a first time a Bill giving the victims the right td reply in the same type, space, and. position in the newspaper. A public society has been formed legally' to’protect the honour of the citizens against press calumnies; IRISH SWEEPSTAKE. LONDON, June 1. Prices of £lOO in the Irish sweep were won by G. Flint, 73 Hopper street, Wellington; J. Thurston, Taoroa road, Taihapc;. . and R. Pearce, of - Bennett’s strict, Christchurch. - Nineteen hundred' cash prizes still" remain to be drawn. / ■A Conference of British hospital representatives passed a resolution against amending the law in the direction T>f holding sweepstakes, .for hospitals, it

was declared that the Dublin hospitals were running a business similar to that of bootlegging. . PRINCESS MARIE LOUISE. LONDON, June 6. Princess Marie Louise is seriously ill. Her temperature is 104. A bulletin, signed by three doctors, In-' eluding Lord Dawson, says that the Princess is suffering from microbe infection of the intestines, with fever, but no pain. Her strength is well main-/ tained. H.H. Princess Marie Louise Augusta is a'cousin of King George V. She was born in 1872. EARTHQUAKE IN ENGLAND. LONDON, June 7. An earth tremor, which was felt throughout England, occurred at half past 1 this morning. No damage was done, but some sleepers on the uppei floors of houses in the provinces were thrown from their beds, and in some cases crockery was broken. Alarmed people, especially villagers, rushed into the street in their nightclothes. The shock was apparently' severest in Yorkshire. It is believed it was the strongest experienced in England for 23 years. The motion, which was felt clearly for a minute, lasted altogether for seven minutes.

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. QUEBEC, June 6. The Premier of Canada (Mr Bennett), who is here attending the funeral of Cardinal Rouleau, announced to-day that the session of the Imperial Conference which is scheduled for Ottawa in August has been adjourned, and an official stateinent would be made in Parliament on Monday. He said the conference had been postponed because of; pending elections in Australia and New Zealand which would prevent "the delegates of these countries from attending during the ..autumn this year. No date has been set for . a renewal of the discussions, but it would likely be the beginning of next year. THE GERMAN BUDGET. BERLIN, June 6. ' President Hindenburg has signed the new financial decrees which are expected to yield £90.000,000 and turn a deficit Of £62,000,000 into a surplus of £28,000.000. . . Practically every. German is affected by the decrees. The pensions of 660.000 ■war invalids will be reduced 10. per cent., and an even greater number of widows and orphans will be similarly reduced. As many as 200,000 persons will be added to the present half million workless people who receive no benefit of any description from the Government. All taxpayers will be subject to the new income tax,.

THE WHALING INDUSTRY. LONDON, June 1. The Discovery’s investigations into the southern whaling industry involved widespread researches into temperature, salinity, and density of the seawater, and the content of phosphate and nitrate controlling the growth of the microscopic plants on which animals and whales subsist. In the course of his studies on the Discovery, Mr Williams-Coresby compared the areas apd season in order to ascertain the concentration and migration of whales and the occurrence, of good and bad whaling years. The Discovery’s work occupied two summers, and covered 2600 miles in the South Georgia whaling grounds, making thousands of hauls, and taking thousands of temperatures and water samples. The Discovery has done much to make navigation safer. SPANISH POLITICS. MADRID, June 4. In announcing the election by popular suffrage of a single chamber, which is to meet on July 14, the Government explains that it has hastened this step in the interests of justice and of the democracy. . The chamber will nominate a provisional head of the State, upon which the present Government will hand over the powers to the Cabinet. SEVILLE, May 28. Senorita Victoria Kent, the lady of English descent who took a prominent part in the revolution which led to the abdication of King Alfonso, is inspecting the prisons of Andalusia. She contemplates radical reform in the direction of dignifying the prisoners’ lives, including a proposal to allow the husbands to entertain their wives in wellfurnished private rooms. Bachelors will similarly be allowed to receive their women friends.

COLLUSION IN DIVORCE. LONDON, June 4. In the course of the frankest speech at the Convocation the Bishop of Salisbury pleaded for the Church to give a definite lead in'marriage. He pointed but that the demand for greater divorce . facilities was becoming more insistent, /involving the degrading phenomehoii of collusion. He urged that the ultimate way from the present distress might be ■ a distinction between the civil and the religious ceremony. Let the Church

bless only the unions of those who believed that marriage was a lifelong obligation. “We should immediately establish a rule that no person whose partner in marriage was living should be remarried in church.” The Bishop of St. Albans declared it was a blasphemous way. The Archbishop of Canterbury, summing up, said he was convinced that the relations between marriage by the Church and State could not be allowed to drift longer without the gravest peril. The Convocation unanimously agreed. The Archbishop of Canterbury is appointing a committee of seven bishops to inquire into the whole question. GERMAN MINISTERS. RUGBY, June 4. Dr Bruening (German Chancellor) and Dr Curtins (Minister of Foreign Affairs) had a cordial reception on their arrival in England to-dav on the liner Hamburg, in which they‘travelled from Germany. The Hamburg was met in the forenoon by the destroyer Winchester off the Isle of Wight. As the German Ambassador hoarded the Hamburg to greet the visitors the liner’s band played the British national anthem. A few minutes later the party went aboard the Winchester to the strains of the Ger man national anthem. On their arrival at Southampton the visitors were welcomed by the Mayor and walked through the‘lines of the police guard to the special train which carried them to London. The Prime Minister, accompanied by the Foreign Secretary, awaited their arrival at Waterloo station and extended a warm welcome to the visitors, who were then driven to the Carlton Hotel, which will be their headquarters during their stay Both at the station and at the hotel they were cheered by the gathering of the public, which included many Germans. Later they spent some hours sightseeing in the city and in the west end. . . To-night Dr Bruening and Dr Curtins will be the guests of the Prime Minister at a dinner at the Foreign Office. Dr Bruening, on his arrival at South ampton, said. “ We have no definite pro gramme. We intend to have a friendly talk on all matters of common interest.” ' He denied the Berlin report suggesting that Germany was considering the' su.-C pension of the payment of interest on foreign loans, declaring that Germany would meet all such obligations.