VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17536, 16 December 1920, Page 9

VARIOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—'Copyright. A CLAIM DISMISSED. LONDON, December 14. Mr Justice Bray dismissed the Alliance Company’s claim, on the ground that the machine technically was racing, which was specially excluded from the conditions of the policy.—A. and N-Z. Cable. [The Alliance aeroplane, when starting for Australia in November, 1919, crashed at Surbiton (Surrey), Lieutenants Douglas and Ross and another aviator being hilled. A recent cable message stated that the Alliance Aeroplane Company was suing the Union Insurance Company of Canton for £5,000 for the loss of a machine. It was stated that the accident occurred a few minutes before the expiration of the policy. The defence contended that the policy covered only trial flights in England, not a flight to Australia.] THE" KING’S THANKS. , LONDON December 14. The King’s banquet, which was arranged to accord the thanks of their Majesties for the Australasian hospitality to the Prince of Wales, was attended by the Dowager Marchioness of Linlithgow/ Lord and Lady Liverpool, and Viscount Novar of Baith (late Governor-General of the Commonwealth).—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE HEALTH BILL. LONDON, December 14. The House of Lords rejected, bv 67 to 41, the second reading of the Ministry of Healths Bill, containing miscellaneous proThe House protested that it had been given insufficient time to consider the complexities of the Bill. .The rejection of the Health Bill has caused some sensa"?on political circles. It inconveniences the Government by making it impossible for it to pay increased subsidies on the construction of new houses after the end of the year.—A. and N.Z. Cable. IMPERIAL LEGAL PROBLEMS. LONDON. December 14. Lord Birkenhead (Lord Chancellor) announces that the time is not ripe for the institution of an Imperial Court of Appeal, but states that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council should be installed in a worthy building. Arrangements are being inade to strengthen the Indian representation bv providing adequate remuneration for Indian judges. Tile Indian work exceeds that of a.l the other dominions.—A and N.Z. Cable.