BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1920, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

[Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. t £lo,oou EIRE. (Received tills day' at 10.35 a.m.) SAioNLT, This day.—a nre at Gundagai destroyed Ryan's drapery Siiop in Sherman Street, the damage amounting to £IO,OOO. THE ROTaL TOUR. SYDNitI, This day. —The Prince is indulging in hard naing out West, kangaroo and emu hunting. He is enjoying excellent health and arrived at me races bathed in perspiration Iroin ills strenuous exercise. InEW loan. Received this day at 12.20 a.in. EE W YORK, August 9. Another issue of Treasury certificates for 150,000,000 dollars lias been offered at par with .accrued interest; through the Eederal Resolve Bank. " -

MOUNT EVEREST. LONDON, August 8. —A sub committee of the Royal Geographical Society is considering the details of the proposed expedition to attempt to scale Mount Everest via T;bet. It is anticipated that the attempt will entail enormous difficulties and will take a qouple of years. THE SHAH. Received this day at 10.40 a.m PARIS, August 9.--The “Echo de Palis s Constantinople correspondent reports tliat the Shah has abdicated, and a republic has been proclaimed. The Persian Legation states that it has no knowledge of the event. AUSTRALIAN RED CROSSMELBOURNE, This Day.-Tha Australian Red Cross has for warded £70,000 worth of clothing, etc to distressed Poland, and has accord ingly gained representation on the International Red Cross League in -London, Lady Helen Munro Ferguson being appointed the Australian representative.

STATUES IN LONDON. LONDON, August 9,—The cor . portation has decided on the t abolition of the famous Kingly statues i of George 111, in Pall Mall, and Wil[l am IV. It proposes to erect new statues of Edward the VII in Trafalgar • Square, Kitchener and Roberts at the Vai Office, and I isher at the Admiralty. I , 31 MILES AIST HOUR. * A r EW YORK,, August 9.—The Cunarder Aquitania, which sailed from Yew York on July 31st, created a new record and covered ■ Ilfs last 129 miles to Cherbourg on Friday in three hours forty-two minutes, giving an average of 27.4 knots, or thirty-one land miles per hour. JUDGE BEERY SYDNEY, This day.—Mr. Fuller, leader of the NationaPst party stated that Beeby’s acceptance of a Judgeship with the parties practically c ° en amounted to desertion from the ranks of those fighting the extremists and carried its own condemnation. The progressive party of which Judge Leeby was deputy leader passed a resolution regretting his loss hut extending congratulations on his appointment.