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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1926, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

(Australian & N.Z.- Cable<AsSn.) (By Cable —Press Assn: —Copyright.) AYRSHIRE FIRE. LONDON, December 1. H.M.S. Lupin has been- ordbred to y sink the Ayrshire,' as the fire is e spreading and towage is-impossible. WELSH MINERS RESUME. LONDON, November 30. After six npurs’ conference, • the South Wales nubprs reached a settlement. They resume work to-mor ! row night. Their agreement will last until 1929. The tgen are work- “ ing eight-hour shifts. AERIAL COLLISION. STOCKHOLM, December 1. As the result of a collision,,l9oo feet above Malmslaet Aerodron>e, one • [aeroplane crashed and the pilot was 1 tilled. Th:- (’j.i.U'-r landed, ami the j pilot was slight!y injured. i CMELMSFOP.D' BY-ELECTION. ■ LONDON, December I'.-. j The Chelmsford by-election, owing < to Sir H. Curtis Bennett’s (Conservative I resigna tion resti 1 ted : —Biiry (Conservative) 13,395, Robinson (Liberal) 8,435, Moller (Labour) 4,960.. '’ lOWA BANKS’ FAILURE. NEW YORK, December 1. A message from Malxard says that as the result of the financial crisis in lowa, an unusual situation has arisen in the country of Mallard. All the banks are closed for reorganisation, pending which the ancient system of barter is revived, services being' traded for necessities, while , farmers', exchange products for merchandise. MEAT INDUSTRY. LONDON, Dec. 1., It is reliably stated that the long conflict in the chilled ment trade between the big English and American, interests for supremacy in the English markets is practically ended. Several large importing firms have come to an agreement, and it is now only a question of bringing some of the smaller companies into line. FAMILY FEUD. PARIS, December 1. A thirty years’ vendetta existed between the families of Dommergues and Boussarogues, living at Lapeyruse, over the rights of spring!?. The Appeal Court finally favoured the DommeYgues, whereupon an eighteen-year-old girl Boussarague, broke into the Dommergues’ house with a -chopper and decapitated the octogenarian head of the family. GREEK CABINET. ATHENS, December 1.

A Coalition Cabinet . has . been, formed. M. Zaimis is Premier. The definite distribution of the portfolios will be known to-morrow. It is expected that M. Mikalacopoulous willbe Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Kafandaris Minister of Finance, M. Tsaldaris, Minister of Internal Affairs, M. Metaxas Minister of Communication and M. Papnastassion Minister of Agriculture. FASCIST TERRORISM. ROME, November 30. Under the new law, 522 persons have been "'convicted by the special Provincial Commissions, of anti-Fas,-cist activities, and have been sentenced to enforced domicile, this meaning removal from their customary place of residence to other plaices assigned to-them for .periods ranging from one to five years, under strict supervision. Those unable to .earn -a livelihood will receive ten Hire daily;'-! Signor Mussolini is elaborating.new! laws under which the words “piaster” and “servant” will be abolished, and the workers, will be protected-'as well as the industrialists; but the workers will have duties as well as ,rights. , AUTHOR’S,WILL.;' "... \ LONDON, December !. The novelist, Alan Upward,. who ; in a mistaken idea that, his novel was\a failure, committed suicide on NovehiA her 17, left all he possessed to Stephen Graham, the author The will added <’<>-,■■?rd’s desire to be buried ■in uHi consecrated ground in perfect sileheh, ;-,ml forbade any memorial. . Ah- Graham, interviewed, expressed the opinion that Upward had committed suicide in order to draw attention to his work, “a desperate measurfe which he mentioned to me some yeairfe ago, but to which I had .no idea he would resort.”