BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 1 February 1926, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyrigb*.) •’ .it’..

FORTUNE, FOR-WIDOW. it:: .' ;i . <• LONDON,' January 30.In a will ; of a hundred and., ten •

words, the late Mr; Scrimgeour,.who floated most of, New Zealand’s ..loans, left £357,400 to his widow.

LOCARNO PACT.

’ ROME, January 31.. A secret ballot in the Chamber adopted the Locarno Pact by 254 to

MIGRANTS FOR CANADA. '■ ' OTTAWA, January 29. Four thousand European Lutherans will be brought to Western Canada to settle on farms in-*1926. These emigrants will be drawn principally from the Scandanavian countries, and their headquarters will be-established at Hamburg. ' • I'M*

KIDNAPPERS SENTENCED. LONDON, January 28. Thomas Williams and Qeoffrey and Charles- Arden were charged with conspiracy to defraud Douglas Arden, their grandfather,' aged 81 years, of moneys and securities. They kidnapped their grandfather in,.-.'a, Ediidofi street and drove him in a taxi-cab ‘to Gloucester Gate, where tie put hiS'rih;' nature to eleven bills of £5OOO eaclp' Williams was sentenced to eighteen months’ hrad labour, and Arden to six months’ imprisonment. . ’ . ■. MISSIONARIES WANTED. $ LONDON, ,January 29/'An appeal for 430 pew’ meh; arid women missionaries was .made at the final .sitting of the Convention of. the Missionary Council of the Church Assembly. Rev. Jenks (Assistant Seri retary of the Missionary .Council) said that Africa needed 120 ‘men and 80 women; India 71, mostly men-; and China 60 men and, 48 women in the existing missions arid institritioriS:

PRESS DELEGATES ’ ’ LONDON’ January 31. Sir J/Allen and Lapy. Allen will 1 entertain , the returned “ "’Empire Press » delegation at a dinner at the Hotel Victoria on February 8. There will be a hundred guests including Earl and Countess Jelicoe, Earl and Countess Liverpool, Sir Thomas , MacKenzie, Sir Joseph and Lady Cook, and other representative of New Zealand business interests. ' Lord Burnham and Lady Apsley will respond on behalf . of the guests. ’1

SYRIAN BRIGANDS DAMASCUS, January 30.

Despite French precautions, brigands still enter the town with impunity. Raids, accompanied by shooting, are daily occurrences. At present, it is not- safe to move about the native quarters owing., to danger of fire breaking out any moment. Recently brigands penetrated the Amara quarter near the Christian quarters and kidnapped the brother-in-law of the President of the Damascus municipality, holding him • fqr ransom of £5OO.

CHARLES I. AND SCOTS. , LONDON, January 31. A surprise was caused by Scots Pipers playing a lament and the Scots Guards sounding the Last Post during yesterday’s Trafalgar Square service in memory of King Charles the First. It was recalled that two years ago, when the Grenadier Guards buglers sounded the Last Post, Mr. Stephen Walsh, then Secretary for War, said that a mistake had been made in allowing the army to participate, and there would be no repetition of the incident. Colonel Ross, Commanding Officer of the Scots Guards, said: have no knowledge of It. is clear that, the application was rec ffi v " ed during the command of my- prqdecesor, who is now in Ireland.” ' BOY scour?:' I’T . LONDON, J Lord Forster, SirJ/Jas. Allen, Cullen, Captain Colsbatch, Dominion representatives attended, the Commissioners’ dinner of the Roy Scouts’ Association, to which the iKng sent a message of cdiigratulaKing sent a message of congratulation on the continued increase of the movement. Responding to the chief toast, _P r °* nosed by Lord Jellicoe,, Sir R. S. fe-Baden-Powell said that the progress overseas had been more rapid than in the Home Country. Australia and New Zealand had gone ahead splendidly during the past twelve months, and there would be . a big forward movement in the coming yeai. , .y were close on half a million strong all over the Empire, and over a million and a-half strong world-wide, but manv more had passed through th movement, and were infused with its spirit. . .••••••