BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 May 1925, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

~'r; hw- ' . < • 0 ustraliau arid M,. Z. Cable... Association';) ‘ '-3- ' J GOLD STA'NVARD. /. c, , Whon; w 13.1, ? The ‘House ; of Lords !, ‘has“2 t e'ad' the third time the Gold Standard Bill without ./. ..■ ( f ‘ JAP-CHINESE REIiATIbNS. 4 \ . ' /'•'■tEKlN/ Alay I‘.Official : 'Caliiric'i jij--I'UisQ the Legation .at Tpkip. tb' jiri Em* bassy. ‘ " v '- ’ " ' ’

! ' ■ FOOD OOMMI&SION. 1 ■ • . ; . . , ... . , ... LONDON,. MayVl4Ml ’' Tlie"‘“Paiiy Express gri ' Cabinetishelvf j d the Friod,Commission js l report, as opinions are divided <ls tb' ' the practicability -df Nits recommerida’ , hops. '. ■■ '.■■...... ] f ■ r ' " WOMEN’S COUNCIk .. .; WASHINGTON, May 14. TIM, ‘Women's Convention.•' •. chose.' Vienna , for, /the// Cqnvbntum, afid ■ 'France for 1927.■. There will/be d ihriet ing of the executive in Britain in 1929. " ' ‘ NEW CABlfEi ■; •’■’■ '■ ~ . ~NEW YPRK;Mayjf4. The Western Electric ..poinpapy/; of Chicago ' ahndurices that-' itL^Bl cable link • from Victoria; / (§nt’slj Columbia) to Suva, arid that the work will be/ppt in hand. atTonce. ‘ \ ; - ■■•it' ,y:;. ; ;Mrs Paget, daughter'' of 'the Henniker Heaton;//committed Suicide?, The medical evidence ishowria'thatlshacWas a great sufferer from neurastheriia and iiriorimia. i >•/■/■'■■; • ' DARING EXPhoREbi. ' 1 PARIS, May 13. Madame Alexander David has. returned to Paris ‘after fpurteep years' absence in Chqia and Tibet. She to be the first white woman to, penetrate Lhasa, where she spent' , t/ri’o ( months disguised as a beggar. ; . : , FLIGHT/ y/, : . TOKIO, JLiy I4ri; ' When .leaving the water at’yOrajca, two floats of,.Zanni’s plane overturned. Zanni arid his companion were not injured. , Hie, plane was towed ashore. > - , ■'/ ../'■ / ! PRINCE’S TOUR/;,;; ■ ... fOAPETOWN, 14. : > The Prince of Wales arrived. at Port Elizabeth. He addressed, first/iri ' .large gathering of ’ n'atives, clriefly?* Zulus, whom he cautioned / agaip’sf; ■' mistrast, pf- those ■ ir_ authprify. ? • . RABBIT SKINS LAWSUIT. . .. new york; /May 14. 4 Thp jriiy iu the New Jersey Court rendered a/ verdict for 3b,'9Bl*'' dpi lays in favour of John EUhu '.Body, ypit Cobma, New South Wales, in .the,ric-’ tion against Loeb - Brothers, New-yorki Body agreed to turrijsh',Tx>ebs.'.''wil{ly, rabbit skins for the season 12O'agaiU'?t: letters fof credit. . Loebs failed tb' ay--cep|.the shipment of the third;,and fourth lots, ijhich- were, then serit’/bV'’ Dalgety and Co., Body’s' agents,'/tp; /Neri York and,. Lopdori ■ where thov were sold at i a s.a,crjfifee» % . ,The verdict represents, the ' Ipss.ten,•tailed, vith interest, to date,-The CpuW. dismissed Loeb's defence that b.he. skiriy iwerc not of good quality, holding that the same were good seasonable merchandise. .i