BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 November 1923, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SCOTTISH LIQUOR POLL. \ LONDON, November 7. ■ Out of 43 ■ districts in Scotland,which have already taken the liquor control poll, only Auchterarder, near the Gleneagles Golf Links, has changed its policy, by reverting to “wet'? from, its dry vote in 1920. All the districts where there was a dry majority continued, had the majorities reduced. SPANISH REFORMS. MADRID, November 9. The new Government loan of. £33,000,000 has been The loan was oversubscribed three times over on the first day of its issue. This ia a great moral victory for the new regime. The revenue has risen by two million sterling in the two months since the Directorate has been established. Thus, the first tsep has been taken to wipe out the accumulated deficit of £150,000,000. JAPANESE NAVY. WASHINGTON, November 7.’ < M. Hanihara (Japanese Minister) has officially notified Mr Hughes that, owing to the fact the former Japanese battleship “Amagi,” which was being „ converted into an aircraft carrier un<der the terms of the Washington treaty, was badly damaged in tjib earthquake, it has been decided abandon the work on her, and to substitute the former battleship Kaga, whose displacement will be 26,000 tons upon completion. -—■ a? ARGENTINE BEEF. WELLINGTON, November 8. In regard to the recent action 1 by the Argentine Government, which iosuited in the packers informing .the Government that they would ceaStf purchasing Argentine beef, the Zealand Meat Producers Board has ceived the following cable from its representative at Buneos Aires:--Packers Jtjave resumed; killing for export. Chilled beef supplies axevery plentiful. . ii BUENOS AYRES, November 8Following a protest by Rritish and American packers, who threatened to cease exportation of Argentina beef to Europe, because of the attempted classification and price fixing, the Government has suspended the operation of the law for six months. The British and American exporters’ cessation of beef purchases left the native breeders with hundreds of thousands of head of unmarketable cattle, whereupon they deluged the Government with petitions asking for suspension. of the law.

COUNTESS AS CANDIDATE LONDON, Nov. 7. The Countess of Warwick, in an election address, points out that she joined the Labour Movement a quar-. ter of a century ago. She stated: “That transference of my political allegiance to Labour was made in no. spirit of levity. It has meant social ostracism by my old friends, the severance of ties and the denial of a class privilege which I have been, taught to accept unreservedly.” The Countess declares: “Tariffs are the capitalists’ device for exploiting the working classes.” She intends to tour the constituency with a team of* four white ponies. Mr. H. G. Wells, the author, <. has written wishing the Countess success.