LATE MESSAGES

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 June 1937, Page 10

LATE MESSAGES

LONDON, June 23

Judgment has been delivered in favour of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, who asked for a reversal of the decision of the Official Receiver, who, as liquidator of the White Star Company, rejected the Royal Mail Company’s claim to hold shares valued at £2,751,000. It was stated that the Commonwealth and Australia Company creditors of the White Star Company for £700,000, supported the rejection, of the Royal Mail Company’s claim, which arose from a series of contracts for the sales of shares in the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company. The judge, holding that the Royal Mail Company had succeeded, granted an extension of time for leave ,to appeal. LONDON, June 23. In acknowledgment of British hospitality, Mr. Savage and Mr. and Mrs. Nash gave an at home at the Savoy Hotel. Six hundred guests included several nobilities, and the Maharaja of Baroda, Sir Samuel Hoare, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Mr. Duff-Cooper, General Godley, several foreign diplomats and the High Commissioners. WELLINGTON, June 24. In the Hunter case, to-day, Edward Leslie Hazelton, wool expert, of Wellington, said that twice, in May, he inspected a quantity of wool and skins from the station, in a Wellington store. Some of the skins were badly damaged, carrying earth or sand. Some of the wool had apparently been burnt or singed, and other wool appeared to have been buried. Burial while damp could have caused scorching. Had the loose wool been undamaged, it would have been worth to-day tenpence to a shilling per pound, and some of the wool still had saleable value. He could see not the slightest excuse for burying or- burning the skins and wool. Some of the skins he saw were properly treated, but some were mis-shapen through being thrown over posts, and some were badly weather-beaten, the pelts being valueless. He saw no signs' of weevils in any of the skins he examined.

Cross-examination was postponed until more evidence is forthcoming as to the exact source of some of the wool witness spoke of. VALENCIA, June 23. The British cargo boat Marion Moller left. St. Jean de Luz for La Rochelle. with 1700 refugees, whom the Bilbao authorities drove aboard like sheep. Many were without food during the long rough voyage. The rebels have captured Baracaldon. General Davila, has at his disposal 05.000 men for the attack on Santander. AUCKLAND, June 24. “Al! this high-sounding talk by Hitler and Mussolini does not amoulnt Io much. M.v opinion is that, so far from being a danger, it is a safety-valve, like the orators in Hyde Park," said Brigadier-General (.’. 11. Prickett. Imperial Army, retired, when interviewed on his arrival by tile Wanguiiella from Sydney, he and his wife having come to New Zealand tor a year, both being keen lUhormeii. "1 have* travelled all over Europe in th- past two years." he said, "and the general feeling among the masses is definitely a verst 1 to war, and that is so despite the evidence of militarism in Italy and Germany." He said that, statesmen in England, realising the need for rearmament, had used justifiable propaganda to secure general adherence to their policy of large expenditure. Democracies needed special treatment.