CARSON AND SINN FEIN.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 210, 4 September 1919, Page 5

CARSON AND SINN FEIN.

ONLY ALTERNATIVE TO UNION. EXPANSION OF ORANGE ORDER (Received S a.m.) LONDON, September 3. s?ir Edward Carson, in on address to the Ulster Unionist Council, said the Sinn Fein was the only alternative to union. Ulster desired a peaceful settlement, but he did not see the elements of settlement. He urged a revival of the ]x>litieal clubs and the expansion of the Orange Order.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

No contraband was lound aboard the Hampshire Coast. Four other suspected vessels have been arrested at sea and ttaken to Irish ports.—(A. and N.Z.)

A sergeant and a constable were patrolling at Lorrha last night. The sergeant was shot dead. The assassin escaped.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

SHOT BY MEXICANS. AMERICAN ARMY AIRMAN. (Received 5.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 3. Captain David McNab, commander of the Eighth Aero Squadron, was shot and dangerously wounded by Mexican soldiers while flying over the Rio Grande River, near the Mexican border. Twentyrive soldiers in the Mexican party, fired "a hundred shots at him. —(A, and NZ.)

WAR RELICS FOR SALE.

■ANYBODY WANT A TANK?

(Received 8.30 a.m.)

LONDON, September 3.

The Ministry of Munitions is selling at scheduled prices as souvenirs, tanks, howitzers, eighteen-pounders and other guns, gun carriages and limbers, guaranteed to have seen war service, also shells, air bombs, an dother missiles.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) CANADA'S STATUS. T7LD23 CONTROL TO BE TAKEN. (Received 10.15 a.m.)

OTTAWA, September 3.

Introducing a bill for the ratification of the peace treaty. Sir R. L. Borden emphasised that Canada was the first American democracy to realise the issues of the war and participate in them. Canada purposed to further increase her constitutional status within the Empire by taking control of 'wider interests than hitherto, and a constitutional conference for such-purpose would be summoned at an early date.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

KING ALBERT IN AMERICA.

(Received 10.35 a.m.)

:SF.W YORK, Sentember 3

The King and Queen of Belgium will arrive in Washington on October 1. They will be the guests of President Wilson while in America.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) PARIS-DIEPPE CANAL fßeceived 10.30 a.m.) PARIS. September 3. The Government has introduced a bill for the construction of a canal from Paris to Di?ppe, on the Channel coast, an airline distance of DO miles. The work will occupy five years.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

SILVER BOOMING AGAIN.

(Received 5.3 oa.m.)

LONDON. September 3

Silver, which declined a little at the end of last week, lias a«ain advanced to 5/1 per oz "standard. The Chinese Government representatives have resumed buying.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.) Stiver has been rising steadily ever since the end of the war until "it has reached a price not reached for fifty jear-. Financial experts fear that the hoarding of silver coins and secret melting will fellow, and it is suggested that tt:o .to-.TrnT.tfnt should issue notes of 1/ and upwards. FLYING BOAT'S FAST TRIP. LONDON, September 3. fhp Air Ministry announces that a British living boat made a return ilisht to Scandinavia, dying 24.-)0 nautical miles in 41 hours.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.>