LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 September 1928, Page 2

LATE MESSAGES

LONDON, Sept. 27.

Mr. Baldwin, addressing the Unionist Conference at Yarmouth, congratulated the Party on its fighting fettle. He referred to the long-winded nebulous policy of Labour, which however, was a Party in the making, while the Liberals were a Party in the breaking. Fie favoured the removal or reduction of European tariff barriers. Food would not be taxed if the unionists were returned to power, and safeguarding would not be used as a back door through which to introduce the general tariff, until the question was submitted to the country. No -industry would be debarred from stating its case for safeguarding. The Ministry would go full steam ahead with slum clearance. Regarding unemployment, he hoped to be able to act at the earliest after Lord Lovat’s return from the Dominions.

PARIS, September 27.

Dwight Davis, founder of the Davis Cup, in an interview, suggests • that the Wightman Cup, given six years ago for competition between Anglo-American women’s teams of tennis players, should be open for international women’s competition, on similar lines to the Davis Cup contest. LONDON, September 27. All the largest artificial silk manufacturers of Europe have formed an international bureau for standardisation of fibres and the adoption of uniform standards for.trade usages.

LONDON, September 27. , Ellen Terry’s estate, which was surprisingly large, amounted to £22,231, the bulk of- which she left to her daughter, Edith Craig. She bequeathed £2OO to her surviving husband, Janies Carew, “in token of goodwill.’’Legally, Ellen Terry died an American citizen. WELLINGTON, September 28. The Labour Department is talcing proceedings against a number of small shopkeepers for failing to close at the proper time. Some sixty cases were down for hearing to-day, but owing to the fact that notification had been received of intention to defend some of them, all were adjourned till Friday next. Nearly all ,it was stated, relate to selling cigarettes and tobacco. The law is to be contested.

WELLINGTON, September 28. Having suffered financial losses, and being under the necessity of bringing some money into the home, Elizabeth Green, twelve months ago, took to fortune-telling, and to-day was charged at the Court on two counts. She did not appear, but her counsel said that in two hotel deals, the woman lost £l7OO and £l2OO respectively. She had undergone a serious operation recently. Owing to her health and years, she had found a difficulty in obtaining a suitable position. Since his rothrn from the war, she had found herself compelled to keep one of her sons, in view of the woman’s circumstances, Mr Page S.M., imposed a light fine of £2, but remarked that the woman must discontinue fortune-telling.