BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 July 1925, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.,/?.’Cable. Association.) RAILWAYMEN’S WAGkv LONDON. pJuly 29.: A joint conference-of all ’ilic.--Ra.il-way Unions has' rejected': 1 the.' .‘wage reduction proposals iirirtounced ■ ,on July 2. ‘

BANDITS’CAPTIVE. .PEKIN.-July 29. A Tetter received from thb . bandits who captured Howard (an American), demanded ransom in mbney and bullets, but'not specifying the-amount.

WAREHOUSES ON FIRE. HAVANA'■ (Cuba), July 28. 1 Eight persons Were injured' in k fire 1 which JestroyM "six' warehouses oft the .waterfront of’ Regia/' across tlie bay from ihe city last’night, nie-proiierty 'dauiage is estimated at two and a-half million dollars. ? - . NIGHT BAKING. ' ‘ ' LQNDON/July 29. In the House of Commons,\ Sir 'Win.' Joyiujoff Hicks explained that : Britain .was not prepared to ! ratify the ' nightbaking cqnveufibn iji its pre<cjnt;Jorin. The Food Commission'Enquiry' had reported that abolition of flight baking ’would increase the price of the quarter loaf by. a halfpenny.' ~ <> 'i

PRINCE. AND, ARGENTINE. BUENOS AIRES,. July 29The Senate voted four hundred, thousand pesos to entertain the Prince.of Wales during his coming visit to>.the zVrgeijtine. / British subj ects here are .preparing riffmerous- festivities/'in'' horionr of the Prince. His picture is making its appearance everywhere. '• y

PENSIONS: PROBLEM. \ ' LONDON? July 29. The House of Lords' read for the second time the Widows' an'J .Orpbabs •ind Old Age Pensions Bill;'Salisbury announced that, a Departmental Committee would be appointed to consider the case of the contributors who may be desirous 6f‘ migrating within the? Empire. The matter was most complicated. - . . '-•

COLOGNE MURDER. ' ? ' BERLIN. July 29. Before departing fcr London, Clark, tho New Zealand witflcss in the S’wahoda case, gave evidence, on oath; before a German Jfbtary. in: connectiori with the forthcoming trial of Christian Roth, who is charged as 4A accessory to the murder of the . New'-Zealand er, Cromar..; at Cologne. Roth- allegedly urged Swaboda to shoot: Tho'vGerinan authorities refuse to surrender Roth.'

. AUSTRALIAN LOAN,.. < . , NEW YORK, July 28. The Morgan Company., to-day top# payment for Australian loan bonds, thereby closing' the transaction so far as they are concerned. ..... ■ Morgaiis’ offices were to-day filled with a considerable crowd? composed of representatives of houses J individual purchasers of the ■ bonds, who were bringing the payments, which, although not an unusual feature M all Street, is nevertheless significant as an expression of confidence in Aftst ra^an securities. ■

TEXTILE ..WORKEJIS: LONDON,/J uly. ?8A • conference of, the United Textile Factory Worker/.. embracing; jority of tho cotton operatives, i resolution ordering aii enqujiy into, .the toll taken of the cotton trade b/ the speculators, middlemen; ;, and, agents. , , , •. The mover of lhe motion' <leclared that the cotton crop is sold four of’ five times before the iseed ;i is . sown. Then after the harvest, .yhe crop is bought and sold’ many times by people °who have never seen R-•' The same thing happened, 'ho said, with the yam and cloth .stages, with • tee result that cloth which would be sold (at a shilling per card was retailed at 7s 8d to 10s- a yard. .. ;•