BRITISH ANDI FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 April 1925, Page 5

BRITISH ANDI FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) ARTIST-SEAMAN. ' LONDON, April 2. ■'The Royal Academy has accepted a drawing' of Oriental Bay, New Zealafid, by Frank Theodore, it member of the Repulse crew. .. greek/Patriarch: ’ ATHENS, April 29. The Turco-Grecian dispute has been satisfactorily settled, Patriarch Constantine Consenting to abdicate after the' agreement is signed. ULSTER NATIONALISTS. ' .LONDON, April 29. The Nationalists, Messrs Devlin and MacAlist<&, who,, had. hitherto not attended, took their seats in , the Ulster Parliament, and .were specially welcomed by 'Sir- J’.' Craig. ,-. ,»■ 1 ~ . BREAD SUBSIDE ~ ' . 7’- LONDON, Aprß 29. The final account of tlje Wlipat Commission'shows a loss of 138 millions, approximately the outlay for the bread subsidy. ‘ i MEAGRE ‘‘COMPENSATION.” LONDON, April 29. After eight years’ negotiations, the victims of the .German bombardment of the East Coast are receiving offers of compensation from the Government. . ,■ John Duffield, whose wife was killed and‘himself injured in tlie bppibardments of Scarborough, received an offer of £2O, which, lie declares, is merely adding insult to injury. ITALIAN AVIATOR’S VENTURE. LONDON, April 2d. Depinedo, the Italian aviator, has left Baghdad for Karachi. His route from Rangoon will depend on the monsoons. He will either go to Australia and then to Japan, or first Tokio, arid then to Melbourne. Thence he goes home. His machine .is of the ordinary service scouting-bombing type of hydroplane. It is Italian built. The object of the flight is to supply evidence of the technical efficiency of Italian aeronautics') Depinedo is a Neapolitan ,aged 35. •He served in the war, and Was decorated four times and at present holds a. high staff appointment in thg- Air Service. i WOMEN’S COUNCIL..' ' ’ : NEW YORK, April 28. A delegation of the Australian National Council of Women, under the chairmanship cf Miss Ruby Board, has arrived here en route to Washington, to participate in a conference of the International Council of W<Smcn, at which forty Nationalists will be represented. The conference will extend from the second to the tenth of May. The Council meets every five years to consider social and international questions', such as peace, arbitration, child welfare, women’s legislation and social ethics. Miss Board expresses the opinion that, in many social problems. Australia, loads the wav in progressiveness, hut. there are some questions on which they could learn from’other countries.