BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 August 1920, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SHEARERS’ STRIKE. SYDNEY, August 27. — An extension of the shearers’ strike as foreshadowed. The Australian Workers’ Union states that all non-union wool sheds may be boycotted by other unions. ALLEGED SLANDER. SYDNEY, August 27—Mr. Ashford, ex-Minister for j-ands, has issued a writ claiming £2OOO damages for alleged slander from Mr. Clam, member of the Assembly for Wammerawa, in connection with soldier settlement. A CONCILIATORY SPIRIT. SYDNEY, August 2/. —Although the coal tribunal has not reached any finality in the dispute, a .conciliatory spirit is now apparent. There appears to be no danger of an upheaval' in the "industry. AERIAL DERBY'. MELBOURNE, August 27.—The first aerial Derby was raced to-day from Serpentine to Melbourne, over 116 miles, four planes completing. It was won by Lieut. Trelow.

OBITUARY. LONDON, August 26—Sir Walter Kennaway, a New Zealander. (Sir Walter Kennaway was Secretary to the Department of the High Commissioner for New Zealand in London from 1874 to 1909}. . JAPAN AND AMERICA. HONOLULU, August _ 24.—According to a dispatch from Tokio, prominent citizens in Tokio have suggested that the Government should recall all the Japanese who have emigrated to America, in order to solve the Japanse problem in the United States. The Tokio press generally is supporting the suggestion. BRITISH ASSOCIATION. Received this day at 9.15 a.m. LONDON, August -26.—Sir Edward Thorpe has been nominated as President of the British Association’s meeting at Edinburgh in 1921. It is understood that there will be a continuation of the policy of occasional visits to the outlying portions of the Empire. The Association meets at Colombo in 1922. ARGENTINE WOOL. BUENOS AYRES, August 25.—President Triggyen recommended the enactment of a law exempting wools from the export tax, and authorising the Government to negotiate with foreign countries for the sale of wool on credit extending not more than two years. The measure is intended to aid holders of wool to dispose of large surplus stocks accumulated cn account of a slack market. The Argentine National Bank would discount documents of sale.

FIFTEEN BILLION YEARS. LONDON, August 26 At the British Association’s meeting,' the most outstanding declaration was a statement by Professor Eddington (president of the physical section) that the sun could maintain its output of heat for fifteen billion years. This estimate was based on a contention that the sun and stars do not depend for their heat Upon contraction, as according to Helriiholtz and Kelvin’s theories, but upon some vast reservoir of sub-atomic energy. Professor Eddington declared the sun must date back to a time so remote that there was no limit to estimates of the-earth’s age. TROPICAL AUSTRALIA. BRISBANE. This Day—At the Medical Congress the sub-committee appointed to investigate the occupation by white of tropic Australia, reported that it was unable to find anything pointing to the existance of inherent insuperable obstacles in the way of permanent occupation of tropical Australia by a healthy indigenious white race, Constructive suggestions were offered, which may be summed up as the regulation or prohibition of the sale of alcohol, better 1 housing and clothing conditions, and the hygeuic education of the people. ' THE CHANNEL SWIN. LONDON, August 26. —Henry Sullivan, an American swimmer, left Dover last night to swim the Channel It is reported that he was still in the water at 11 o’clock this morning, but the sea was choppy. LATER. Sullivan abandoned the swim when three miles off Cm-e Grisney. a f ter be;n.g 19V hours in the water. He covered 35 miles, his chief food being beefsteak, cooked on an. accompanying trawler. Sullivan put up a plucky

struggle during the last five hours, but was unable to make progress and gave up the attempt. MINING CRISIS POSITION MORE HOPEFUL. ■ MINERS SHORT OF FUNDS. [Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.] Received this day at 11.15 a.m. LONDON, August 26. Though the first ballots show sweeping majorities in favour of a coal strike, the crisis has entered on a more hopeful phase. Trade union opinion is generally hardening against a strike. It is pointed out that if £1 per week is paid to the miners as strike pay the funds will be exhausted in three weeks. Mr Arthur Henderson urged that the issue between the miners and the Government is not really nationalisation, but wages, which are affected by the increased cost of living, which, he declares, is a negotiable proposition.