BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 January 1914, Page 6

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

iMtusis AdSuclaTlUA —UOi'ITttIUHT.J LABOUR CONFERENCE. Uji.\u\jx } January -^. —-iia J-.aoou 1 Conference at Glasgow lias adopted a scheme tor estaoftsnlng a Scottish Advisory Council. It was uecitted to meet ut unstol in 1015. ACCUSATION DENIED. LONDON, January —Mr Jesse Col. [ins, M.P. in a letter to tne Society I'oi the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, combats the accusation of cruelty to ani. nals in transit in Australia. He describes Australia's up-to-date Humanitarian treatment of live stock. LTJ..NXW*., January 28. Tlie Labour Conference at Glasgow conlemned the South Aineaii Uovernment's ■suppression of trade unOThism liv armed t'orce as a violation oi the elementary lghts of citizenship, and demanded Lord rladstone's immediate recall. WAR AEROj.juaiNE. LONDON, January 2b\— Tlie "Daily Mail" states that tlie War Office has de signed a new type of aeroplane, u.juipped ;'or transporfof a pilot and ten men, with i speed of a mile a minute. HIS FATHER S SEA I. LONDON, January '<&.— -Air Ausien Chamberlain lias accepteu_the candidature for the West Birmingham seal. VUSTRALTA'S GOVERNOR-GENERALI LONDON, January 28.—Tlie "alanihester Guardian" suggests that the Right Hon. C. Hobhouse, i\LP. for Bristol, will succeed Lord Denman as dovernor-General of Australia. NEGRO LYNCHED NEW YORK. January 23.-At Raleigh, in North Carolina, a mob nisbpd the gaol : n which Jim Wilson, a negro, was confined on a charge of murdering a white woman. The mob. which nap just ilnvid of t! u . Slate militia who had Leon lespalch.,l Ui prevent Hire', hanged the iii?u o„ a live and riddled his body with bullets. INDIAN BLACK I'HAGUE. (Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) RAIDS. January 28.—Some dogs have been discovered at Marseilles showing symptoms of Indian black plague. Tlie Pathological Society urges the exclusion of those arriving from countries where the lisease is endemic. NEW ZEALAND LOAN. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON. January 28.—The City of Vuekliuifl loan is over-subscribed. New Zealand is issuing a £4,500,000 four per -cut. loan a) £IOO 10s, repayable in 1921.