BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 June 1925, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

and N.Z, Cable Association.)

BELGIAN POLITICS. BRUSSELS, June-12. * (Belgium is still without a Cabinet. The latest attempt by M. Poulett has failedL-'.’ - '-v-*: ■

JAPANESE AMBASSADOR h’i ' • ■ < • TOKIO, June,.l2. Turkey approves of; Torikichi Ohara’s Ambassadorship for- JapKn at'Constantinople, and his formal'-appointment will, be announced shortly. <? ", • ’

nil'll RETREAT. ■ / t AIADRIDf June. 14,..>. A communique- announces ■■that th® 'Riffs .were forced to tllo .Ma'cice 'Mountains, relieving Tetuiiii h’oih danger oi'a'ttadkv •' 7 " Midi;•■? -J3 .AYR BY-ELECTIpN.'./’. A .» DONDON/June 13.-,.. 1 The by-election for Ayr Burghs resulted in: the ..retiMr W ■Moore (Conservative) With 11,6001; M*' iDolan (Labour) polled 8,313£ Mr 'Pringle ’(Liberal) 4,656 and Mr’Brussells 1’3.” t ' ITALY AND >FGHANISTAN.' M • 'RoMJ2j''j une' 14. >. ■ Halv is demanding ‘.in indeiiiuity £7OOOO : al so -Un ; apology! r ■from A L ghanistan in. connection. with the execution 1 at ’'Kabul of the ItalianP'tferno, for the'alleged killing !ob an Afghan soldier. ■ riu .-L.i.i .... CHICAGO LAWLESSNESS. • • '•■■■■■ '‘NEW YORK, Jund 14. A battle between the polity and a ■miig of. desperadoes at .Chicago redlie fatal ' shodthigb-' of y police sergeant and John -Genua, pne of The trouble’ arose in Woiuic'etidj’iir'with the recent assess* i'mitioiv dMjfcnlU! ’s brother. 1 /:' 1 ■ ’? EXHIBITION’ANOMALY; ■ ’' ... ... , . •London, •Me 34,' ‘/Certificates of issued^ to exhibitors '-'at WGipblby , 1924 Exhibition are > printed on- foreign' s papeiS A Printer asked the authorities' to/withdi’aw the certificates and ■ offered, to reprint 'on British- -papfer at his expence.-" •'' **->

COLOURS FOR NAYY. - ••*-.' LONDON , ’■ J uno 13.-, The King has approved of colours for the ; Navy,--'corresponding to -the King’s Colours, for, the Army. Tho Navy-colours will be a white ensign of silk" with the Crown’and Rojtal Cypher superimposed. When caned ashore.it will be treated similarly tb the King s Colditi’s of’ a -regiment. ' ’

PRINCE OF WALES. / n *' ' CAtWOAVN, June 12. T ! 'o Prince of 'Walk’s tour'of’ Natal will* be* concluded At Vrybeid tomight. This morning’'heA‘isitAd Newcastle, the great ! coal and iron'’centre of'Natal. - UAPETOWN, June 14. The Prince of Wales, motoring from Dundee,, visited scenes : of the ; earlier battik in the South’’Afr. can Y ar. He was "ivfen an enthusiastic reception- t> the various townships.

DETERMINED SUICIDE t-ruvL r.: PARIS, June ,1/4.. Mary Crompton, thirty-six, .an Athericau who -suffered frbm neurasthenia, laßt week ordered her own coffin. Last night, after driving in a taxi cab for several hours, she ordered the driver-to go to the Bois De Boulogne. The chauffeur there heard sh’cts, - and found the woman dead. She had shot herself in the breast several times!-. A“ letter in- a pocket asked her relatives in Chicago to pay for the funeral giving tlie -iinddHOker’s address.

TRADE RETURNS. LONDON, June 14. Imports in May were 104 niillion sterling, and exports sixty-four millioii, showing, a decrease of eighteen and'six million respectively, conipairQd. wi*h the pfeviQus May... ■ i?J Imports for May 'decreased £17,758,689'And exports decreased £6,056,395. Re-exports innereaspd £1,407,787. The principal-' decreases in, imports < were t Grain, £2,305,236-, ’ dutiable food. £2.611,255; non-dutuible.food, £1,989.342r?iw wool, £2,902,611; meat, .£1.815,211; raw cotton, £1,663,450. Exports : Cbal. £1,879,572 : woollen manufactures; ■ £1,424.058; iron and steel manufactures, £1,492,428.

AERIAL AVEDDING BERLIN, June 12.

An air wedding of a young Swedish /ouple took place during &h aeroplane flight between 'Maliho and Hamburg. When the'inachitie'was at a hfeiglftboffifteen hundred feet’. The couple stood before an improvised altar in the Cabin where’ the ceremohy was. performed ' by a Swedish ' minister, with a lawyer and his wife as witnesses. The-- wedding -breakfast n-wdS';«then served, and the couple’s health was drunk in champagne. The ihinister, lawyer iind others Tdft tlie machine at Hamburg? The douple continue their honeymoon by a trip to Amsterdam.