CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 December 1933, Page 8

CABLEGRAMS AND WIRELESS

MR. NELSON’S TRIAL. [BY CABLE PRESS ASSN. COPYBIGHT.] APIA, December IS. The Nelson case was opened to-day, Mr. Klinkmueller appearing for the defence, and Mr. MacCarthy for the police. Mr. MacCarthy, in his address, included a reference to letters seized by the police at Tuaefu. The defence objected to the admission of other than documents signed by Nelson. The objection was overruled where any letters were found in the possession of Nelson and involved and connected him with Mau Abstracts from documents were read by Mr. MacCarthy in opening. The Court rose at 4.15 p.m. The opening address had not been completed. S. AMERICAN ARMISTICE. MONTE VIDEO, December 18. Paraguay has proposed an armistice in Gran Chaco warfare at the PanAmerican conference, in order to allow for the arbitration of the claims of two nations, Paraguay and Bolivia. Bolivia is accepting the proposal. FRENCH TAXATION. PARIS. December 19. The police dispersed crowds of civil servants who were demonstrating outside of the Senate against the Government’s taxation on salaries. The police detained the secretary of the civil servants, named Neumayer, and four hundred others. THE FOREIGN YOLK. LONDON, December 19. On the ground of the serious plight of the Home Industry, the National Farmers’ Union have urged the Ministry of Agriculture to regulate the imports of eggs from February to July, 1934. AMERICAN TOURISTS. SAN FRANCISCO, December 18. The Australian National Travel Association has announced that over 100 members of the Masonic Islam Temple, leave here on August 10 next to visit Australia and New Zealand. NEWFOUNDLAND COMMISSION. LONDON, December 19.

The Government is having great difficulty in finding three super-men for the commission to bring order out of chaos in the bankruptcy of Newfoundland. Mr Malcolm MacDonald told the House of Commons that he was searching every conceivable list, including the Dominion, colonial and Indian services, but thus far without result, and persons outside service are being considered, and he invited members to submit names of suitable candidates. AUSTRALIAN LOAN. LONDON, December 19. Large cash applicants in the Commonwealth loan will receive sixteen per cent, with a limit of £16,000. Smaller applicants will receive on a slightly higher basis. FOG IN ENGLAND. RUGBY, December 18. With the exception of Southern Essex, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, the whole of England and North Wales remains enveloped in fog. There is no prospect as yet of any break in the spell of cold weather which has almost the whole of Europe in its grip. Many English rivers whose levels are low, are covered with ice, which is also forming on the Upper Thames. AUSTRIA AND JEWS VIENNA, December 19. In furtherance of Premier Dollfuss’s frequent declaration that the new Austria must be on a Christian basis, the Ministry of Justice has prepared a decree heavily reducing the number of practising Jewish lawyers. Similar decrees are being prepared for other professions.