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Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 136, 27 March 1924, Page 8

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EMPIRE BANKING. (By Electric Cable—Copyright). (Aust and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received March -21, noon). London, March 20. The annual dinner of the British Overseas Hanks Association was attended by the High Commissioners of Australia, New Zealand, and India, with other distinguished personages . The chairman, Mr Arthur Willis, Of the National Bank of Now Zealand, said the British overseas hanks had become a part and parcel of our Empire and it.s development. SIMPS AND TRADE. The GYimmell and Laird Co., shipbuilders, has not declared an ordinary dividend, for the first time m their history. •Mr Hitehens, presiding at the meeting of shareholders, said that i? trade was to recover Labour must recognise hour.s of work and wages. They had to face foreign competition. Labour's policy would kill the foreign trade. The depression in the shipbuilding trade would be removed if the price of new tonnage could lie kept down. This depended upon the attitude of Labour. A HUGE FORTUNE. Viscount Allendale left a n unsettled estate of £2.750,000. The death duties on it will total £BOO,OOO. He left £oooo in separate bequests to various charities. THE OUTRAGE IN IRELAND. London, Jlarch eft, Premier Cosgravc, in an emotional speech in the Dail, condemned the Quecnstown shooting of an English solder as a dastardly outrage against defenceless soldiers. He acknowledged the generosity of the British view of the crime. The Government ■would see that all possible reparation •was made to the sufferers. The leaders of all the parties in the, Dail endorsed these remarks, and the Dail adjourned as a mark of sympathy. It is persistently rumoured that Mr Cosgravc is about to resign, for health reasons. MI? MASSEY'S VIEWS. (Beuter.) London, March 26. The views expressed in Lord Jellieoe's Singapore message are Mr Mas. sey'.s, on behalf of whom Lord Jellicoe transmitted the message. EMPIRE EXHIBITION. Five hundred electricians at the Wembley Park Exhibition, wlmsc .strike on Monday was apparently settled, met and decided to remain out until the non-unonist electricians employed at the Exhibition were dismissed. STEAMER SUNK. The Japanese steamer Tokofuku Maru, bound from Bremen to Japan, was sunk in collision with the German steamer Hendal during the fog Dungeness, and 23 of the .Japanese steamer's crew are missing, whilst 15 landed at Dover. JAPAN'S CUSTOMS DUTIES. Tokyo, March 2G. Import duties are being reimposed from April 1 on those commodities temporarily exempted after the earthquake, the sole exceptions being beef, rice, and eggs. ON THEIR WAY. Delhi, March 20. The expedition under General Bruce to climb Mount Everest has left Dai-jecling. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. Yorlv, March 20. The foot and mouth disease is spreading so rapidly that almost the whole of California is quarantined. EXCITING CHASE. Four bandits in Chicago snatched .mail bags containing lflo,ooo dollars in. currency from tha messengers. Their ear was madly chased by motors into the centre of the city, where the jamb of traffio enabled to robbers to

escape. The route of the chase was marked by torn mail sacks and envelopes, the bandits busily employing themselves in pitting rid of the incriminating evidence, excepting the monev.