EMPIRE MATTERS MURDER CHARGE. TROPICAL DISEASES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 December 1924, Page 5

EMPIRE MATTERS

MURDER CHARGE.

TROPICAL DISEASES.

PROPOSED CONFERENCE. ON GENEVA PROTOCOL. ATTITUDE OF DOMINIONS. ili! CAiJLE—PIiESS ASSOCIATION —OOP X RIGHT. Received Dec. 30, 11.10 a.m. I-OinDOiN, Dec. 29. The Times in a leader 'says; “There is nothing either surprising or disappointing about the reluctance of the Dominion Governments to participate in the special Imperial Uonterenoe on the Geneva '(Protocol. The Dominions have their own affairs to attend to and eannbt .reasonably be expected to -release their Premiers and- other responsible Ministers for .long periods, whenever a. problem, however important, comes up- for settlement. . Besides the attitude of the Dominions to the protocol is sufficiently notorious in advance that the proposed conference could, therefore, decide nothing, but what is already known. The business of the Imperial Conference, when it next meets, should be something far larger and more far reaching than the settlement of any current question. We should inaugurate once and for all a. system under which not merely the protocol, but every other world problem could be discussed between its members with the knowledge and continuity which would, in fact, make an invitation to sudden conclaves as unnecessary as it is now proving impracticable.

follows Ratal quarrel. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Dee. 30, 11.35 a.m.) BRISBANE, Dec. 30. John Burnham, a labourer, lias been arrested 0114*1 charge of the murder of David Williams and remanded. David Williams, a timber-getter, was found shot" dead at liis home at Cedar Creek, near Samford. It is stated that Williams and another man were drinking together, and a quarrel arose, in which there were threats of shooting. The other man •left, and later returned. Mrs Williams set out for Samford, and had proceeded a short distance when she heard the. sound of a shpt. The body of Williams was found on the bed with a gunshot wound in the breast.