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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 November 1926, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN-ITEMS

Australian and N.Z. Association), (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright)

GIFT TO CHURCH WORK. LONDON, November. 2s. Rev. V. If. Jenkyn has received an anonymous gift of £2,000 on behalf of new settlement work in Australia in connection with the Society for '; the Propagation of the Gospel.

GERMANS IN EGYPT. . CAIRO, November 25.

For the first time since the war. a German judge has been nominated to the recently created mixed trinural. This does not connote a revival of Germany’s renounced capitulatory rights. ALBANIAN REVOLT■ ROME, Nov. 26. An official communique from Tirana states the Albanian Government troops routed the rebels. Complete calm now reigns. FRENCH LANDSLIDE PARIS, Nov. 26. “Le Matin” states that Billiee is doomed to disappear entirely under mud. The landslide continued yesterday. The village is isolated. Supplies are being sent overhead by cable. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE,' LONDON, November 26. Mr Bruce has commissioned a Federal Member of Parliament, Mr Manning, privately to investigate and report on the marketing of Australian products, including the retail ', stores in the West End of London. HOMELAND BY-ELECTION? LONDON, November 26. Owing to the appointment, of the Hon F. S Jackson to the Governorship of Bengal, the Howdnshire by-election was held, resulting:—Major Carver Conservative) 10,653, Linfield.;, (Li beriv.) 6568, Kneeshaw (Labourite) 23 ISNORWEGIAN OSLO, November 25. A Government Committee, reporting on the results of the Prohibition plebiscite, in Norway, 'reoommends the issue of cards to persons- over 21 years of age, desiring to buy \ liquor, but debarring persons who break the liquor Laws, or otherwise prove: themselves unworthy. QUEERS NEW “CHILD.” t LOlfrON, November 26. The Queen, a sum. an* nually to scholarships, has -.adopted a little boy waif frolil. one -.of the Church of England WaiCs Society’s Homes, and shfc is sending him to a school where he .will be educated and brought up at her expense.