BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 November 1920, Page 6

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) READY FOR ACTION. PERTH, October 29.—The English cricketers have been released from quarantine in readiness for to-morrow’s match. LICENSES REDUCED. ADELAIDE, October 29.—The President of the South Australian Licensing Court has curtailed hotel licenses in. Adelaide by 12. CONTINUANCE STILL LEADING. BRISBANE, This Day.—Progress returns in the liquor referendum are State Control, 20,726 ; Prohibition 105,826 ; Continuance, 122,66 ft. DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION.

MELBOURNE, October 50.—Mr. S. Julleti, a War Correspondent has been appointed by the Commonwealth Government as Director of Immigration in Australia at a salary of £ISOO a year. LONDON, WOOL SALES. LONDON, October 30. —The next wool sales have been fixed for November Bth. They will be held only provided that the coal miners’ ballot is in favour of the ending of the strike. EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY. LONDON, October 30. —An election of the Lord Rectorship of Edinburgh (University resulted: —Mr. Lloyd George 1,754 votes ; Professor Gilbert Murray, 509 votes. ,

MODERN NOAH'S ARK . NEW YORK, October 29—The steamer Bellbuckle arrived from Sydney, bringing four thousand specimens of Australian animals, birds and reptiles, all consigned to the New York Zoological Park. INTERSTATE CRICKET. ADELAIDE, This Day.—For the first Interstate match of the season, Victoria v. South Australia, the weather is fine and the wicket fast. South Australia have

lost four wickets for 134 (Pellew 68, Smith 29). A FAIR DEAL. MELBOURNE, October 29. —In 'the House of Representatives, Mr Hughes, replying to a question, said there was no intention of opening Australian markets to Germans, but Germany would get a fairdeal. CONCRETE SHIP SUNK. NEW YORK, October 20. —According to a telegram from Newport, the United States concrete steamer “Cape Fear” was sunk in a collision with tne liner “City of Atlantic.” Nineteen of the crew are missing. SAILING CHAMPIONSHIP. HALIFAX, (Nova Scotia) October 30. —The American fishing schooner, Esperanto beat the Canadian Delawanna, a schooner, in the first three races for the International Championship of the North Atlantic over a forty-mile course. The Esperanto finished two miles ahead. WITH THE RIFLE. SYDNEY, October 30. —Besides winning a hundred pounds prize in the King’s match, Rifleman Face won an extra hundred /or using a mottie barrel. Masefield (N.Z.) got into twentieth place with 314. Roots and West (N.Z.) each scored 313, and all won four pounds. WATERSIDERS BALLOT. BRISBANE, October 30.—The Waters! ders of Queensland are now taking a ballot on the question of whether there be a total cessation of the work of discharging and loading all oversea vessels, whether bound to or from the United Kingdom. It is stated that a similar ballot is to be taken throughout the Commonwealth . THE AMATEUR STATUS. SYDNEY, October 29.—The Amateur Status Conference agreed that amateurs will not lose their status by competing with or against professionals in any game in which no money prize is offered. It was also agreed that, professionals may sit on governing bodies. Each decision was carried by ,12 votes to 11 and now awaits endorsement by individual sporting bodies. *■

PROHIBITION POLL. LONDON, October 30. —There will be a prohibition poll at Glasgow, Aberdeen ,and Iverness on Tuesday. One “Pussyfoot,”- who addressed forty meetings, in seventeen days in Scotland, of which five were rioteous, asserts that at least a third of the parishes voting on Tuesday will favour no license. The v ‘drys” have spent about fifty thousand in election expenses, and have distributed twenty million leaflets but the “wets” spent much more, SLUMP IN SILK. TOKIO, October 28. —In Japan the Yokohama Silk Exchange closed on the 27th when the prices dropped below the minimum fixed by the big buying syndicates composed of a group of silk dealers, with the consent of the Government. The officials of the Exchange are consulting with the Government regarding the situation. The general depression in the silk industry is continuing.

MADAME MELBA DECORATED. LONDON, October 30. —Madam© Melba is singing at the Albert Hall tomorrow. Mr. Arthur Mason is playing the organ. Madame MeTba has been staying in Christiana, where she gave a concert on behalf of the widows and orphans of Norwegian sailors torpedoed in the war, which realised 34 thousand kroners. The Queen of Norway unexpectedly attended the rehearsal and decorated Madame Melba with the Norwegian Order of Merit, After the AlbeH Hall season, Madame Melba tours the provinces. Then she probably visits America.