STOP PRESS

Evening Star, Issue 20779, 29 April 1931, Page 14

STOP PRESS

■ PROPOSED NATIONAL PARTY. The IVime Minister stilted tin's afternoon that there had been no further development of his proposal to form a National Party, excepting that he had received a large number of telegrams, many of them from representative citizens throughout the dominion, expressing their approval of tho action ho had taken. The Leader of the Opposition said he was not yet in a position to make a statement on the Prime Minister’s pronouncement. Parliamentary reporter. Mr Holland said; " T do not think the situation calls for any comment from me, Mr Forbes's invitation has not been extended to the Labour Party. It really represents a despairing S.O.S. from the captain of a sinking ship to another skipper, who is owner of the cargo on board the doomed vessel. MV Coates’s trouble will he that any endeavour on his part to save the United ship and cargo from a total loss ami its crew from political drowning will gravely endanger his own somewhat leaky vessel, to say nothing of the already threatened lives of his reluctant crow.” —Wellington Press Association telegram. COUNTERFEIT COINS. During the past few days several counterfeit half-crowns have been handed in shopkeepers in Dunedin Those coins bear tho date 1929 and are new in. appearance, hut are softer than tho genuine article. STOCK EXCHANGE. Sales reported this afternoon •J 933, 5J per cent. Inscribed Stock £99 os: King Solomon, 2s 3d,