LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 March 1926, Page 5

LATE MESSAGES

WHAKATANE, March 8. Peter Lury, an elderly man, cut his throat with a razor last Tuesday, and died at .the hospital this morning;. ’ ' .SUVA, March 7. Arrived: Iwate from Auckland. PARIS, March 7. The ex-Crown Prince of Germany is disiting Lucerne, hoping to induce the League -to secure -the ex-Kaiser’s release from Doorn, on grounds of health. The ex-Kaiser wishes to spend a holiday in Spain. TANGIER, March’7. The Riffs continue bombarding' Tetuan, and a numbev of residents are fleeing from, the city. The Spaniards have occupied a strong position above Benkarriich, south-west of Tetuan. -March 7. It is semi-officially announced that the King and Queen of Spain are visiting the United States during the coming autumnMADRID, March 7. General Astray, originator and commander of the Spariish Foreign Legion, was wounded in the fighting around Tetuan. A bullet entered his eye and came out of his cheek. He died later. LONDON, March 7.‘ ■ The "Daily Express's” .Berlin correspondent states that Di Luther before going to Geneva • persuaded His Cabinet colleagues to accept the compromise on the question of the Hohenzollern properties, leaving ex-Royalties only genuine .private properties. , All possessions received by virtue of former positions, including the ex-Cro t wn Prince’s castle estate at Oels, and all royally founded art galleries, .gardens, museums and libraries, reverting lb the State. The. decision is retrospective and supersedes legal findings,;

LONDON, March 7. The engineering crisis assumed a more serious asnect as the result of a meeting of LTaabn representatives of all engineering unions in London, deciding to press the claim for a separate wage advance of 20/- weekly in London, and ask authority of the unions to take a joint district strike ballot on. the question of ending the agreement embracing provisions for avoiding disputes, which the employers declare was broken by the un-' official stoppage at Hoasom. •* The meeting endorsed the action of" the district committee of seven unions backing the Hoe strikers and resisting the proposal of the National Ex ecutive of Unions, that the strikers should be instructed to return, to work in order to place the unions in a constitutional position; also( threatening to hold up public services if the threatened lock out occurred.

GISBORNE, March 8. Whilst a jury was being empanelled at the Supreme Court to hear the case of John Robinson, who had entering at Waiomatatini, prisoner pleaded not guilty to breaking and reversed his plea and affirmed his guilt. He was remanded lor. sentence till to-morrow.. LONDON, March 7. A stir was caused in the Royal Academy, Jby the discovery that four oil, landscapes by Constable, has disappeared from what is called the Diploma Gallery.'Doubtless they have been stolen. The pictures are of uniform size, twelve by sixteen inches, and were screwed to the walls. Apparently, the greatest pains were taken in unscrewing to avoid damage to the pictures.

NEW YORK, March 7. Through the co-operation of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the Radio Corporation of America, and the British General Post Office, the United Press to-day conducted the first two-way trans-Atlan-tic wireless telephone tests, conversing with various journalists in. London. The auditors declared transmission as perfect. The converters declaring they were able to hear better than over ordinary city telephones. Officials believe that commercial wireless telephony is one step nearer. The tests were conducted at eightthirty a.m. and twelVe-'thirty p.m., New York. time. The subjects of conversations were tjie recent collapse of Wall Street and Prohibition.'

.LONDON, March 7. A new Roman Catholic society, supported by Cardinal Bourne and many Roman Catholic archbishops • and bishops, is launching an organised countrywide campaign against spiritualism, which is described “dangerous cult aiming root and branch at the destruction of. Christianity.” The late Bishop of Salford claimed that spiritualism was responsible for the large leakage from Roman Catholicism.

LONDON, March 7. A complete scheme for re-organising the management of broadcasting services in Britain, is outlined in an official report lof the Broadcasting Committee, appointed to decide the nature of the administration, after the expiry

of the - present Company’s license on December 31." The report recommends that broadcasting be made a public service; that a corporation, consisting of five tp seven nominees, chosen by the Crown, be .appointed to take over the staff, contracts and apparatus of the existing companies; that the Commissioners be person of judgment and independence, empowered to consult appropriate societies, organisations and advisory committees to ensure due consideration of all phrases of broadcasting ; that generous provision be made for experiment and i esearch ; that the corporation operate under a license from the Postmas-ter-Genera,!, for at least a decade; that the commissioners be invested with the maximum freedom consistent with Parliamentary. control, through the spokesman ship of the PostmasterGeneral.

Among minor points are recommendations that a receiver’s license fee remain at ten shillings, blind persons being free; that every effort be made to raise the standard of programmes, especially music; also to meet the claims of those (relatively they are few) who desire a larger proportion of educational matter. The report raises the present ban on the controversial matter which may i henceforth- be broadcasted, provided it is of high quality and distributed with scrupulous fairness. The committee counsels vigorous pursuit and prosecution of “pirates.” It emphasises the fact-that the recommendations do not imply criticism of the company wJiieb was formed when broadcasting wa-i i.i the em-te-o-'-onic stage and regarded as a toy fantasy, even as a joke, It had raised the service in a degree, reflecting high credit on British efficiency and enterprise.