GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 January 1929, Page 7

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS

ARTIST’S SUICIDE.

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LONDON. January 24.

After packing his trunk with a view to going to New Zealand to see his son, Francis Sherie, a black and white artiet, residing at Winchmore Hill, pinned a notice on his bedroom door stating: “Gas! Open the windows before opening the ' door.” He then turned on the gas. At the inquest the verdict was one of suicide while of unsound mind. The evidence indicated that the idea he was becoming a burden on his family had depressed Sherie.

EMPIRE CONFERENCE

LONDON, January 24.

“The Times’s” political writer says: It is understood there is no prospect of an Imperial Conference being held before the spring of 1930. The Cabinet is at present undecided thereon, but arrangements to hold it in 1929 are not at present being made.

RADIUM SUPPLIES

LONDON, January 24.

In the House of Commons, Mr. Neville Chamberlain said that the Committee of Civil Research was examining the question of radium requirements and the supply for the poorer hospitals, which were under a handicap, owing to the price of radium. He was trying to speed up the Committee’s report.

U.S.A, and AUSTRALIA.

SAN FRANCISCO, January 25.

During the reception to the Austra’ian boys, Mr Charlie Moore, who organised the World’s Exposition in 1915 announced a project under which three hundred Californian business men would make a Pacific tour, embracing A.'istralia, beginning in September, for t e purpose of enabling Australians ami Americans to become better acquainted.

INFANT MORTALITY

RUGBY, January 23

In England and Wales during 1928 the. birthrate was higher and the deathrate lower, than in the previous year, and figures for infant mortalitly were the lowest ever recorded. The birth rate was 16.7 pex- 1000 of the population, which is 0.1 pei' 1000 above that of 1927. The death rate was 11.7 pex- 1000 or 0.6 lower than fox- the previous year, and the infant death i*ate was 65 per 1000 live births.

UNEMPLOYED IN BRITAIN

LONDON, January 23

The Ministry foi’ Labour’s latest weekly return shows that there was a further reduction, as compared with the number of unemployed in Great Britain.

IRAQ CRISIS

LONDON, January 24.

In the House of Commons, Mr. L. Amery, asked about the crisis in Iraq, said he understood that the resignation of the Iraq Cabinet was the result of a failure to reach an agreement with the British Government on the matter of the provisions of military and financial agreements concluded with the Iraq Government in 1924. The main question at issue related to the local forces of Iraq, and not to the British air circles. No question oi removal of the British air force from Iraq therefore arose.