BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 3 July 1914, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN ITEMS

>By Electric Telegraph — Copyright).

Per Press Association. DOMINION OF CANADA. OTTAWA. July 2. Canada celebrated her forty-seventh birthday with great nation wide picnics SHORTAGE OF * STOCK. BUENOS AYRES, July 2. Owing to the short supply of stock the Amalgamated Nelson and River Plate Fresh Meat Companies are-clos m?t the Nelson establishment at Las Palm as Slaughtering and freezifgr will be conducted on the River Plate Coy's premises at Campana. » OBITUARY. LONDON, July- 1. The death is annonced of Edmund Payne, the actor A MAD FREAK. new. York; j u i y i A shot wounded six persons seated on the. observation platform of an .east bound Burlington train at Kansas City According to a man who admitted that he fiied the shot, it was in honour of a woman seated on the platform. He had no intention of injuring anyone and. fired into the air. CHEAP WIRELESS MESSAGESLONDON, July 1. At the Dominions Commission, Mr Godfrey Isaacs said that shortly they would open new' wireless stations at Carmarthen and Belrnar, near New York, enabling -transmission or receipt of ioo word per minute for the greater part of twenty-four hours. ' It was .hoped soon, to establish land wireless between Glaceberg and- Vancouver, linking up the Pacific cable. There was no reason why Sir A. Henniker Heaton's scheme of Ji penny ,a word messages should not be ultimatly real-' ised. BRITISH EMIGRANTS. LONDON, July 1. Before the Dominions Commission, Dr. Norris said the Commonwealth's emigration regulations were not intended to be restrictive, but to make fhedicali examination more humane and more consistent than 1 previously. He had appointed 15,000 medical referees in England to issue certificates to emigrants. TAXABLE INCOMES. LONDON, July 1. A- deputation of Anglo-Colonials ■asked the Hon, T. Mackenzie to take some action in regard to clause five of the Finance Bill, providing that a resident of the United Kingdom pay income tax on incomes acquired abroad, whether remitted Home or not Mr Mackenzie consulted the Canadian and South African representatives and the Australian agents. They will probably discuss the matter wi*h the Imperial