GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 March 1926, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

+ EMPIRE EILMS. by cable-press association— copyrighi LONDON, Eeb. 28. With a view to promoting the development of British films dealing with the achievements, ideas, and ideals or the British Commonwealth of Nations, and to stimulating interest in pictures representing all phases of life throughout the Empire, an organisation lias been formed, entitled, “The British Empire Films Institute.” CANTON SHIPPING. PEKING, Eeb. 2. Advices from Canton state that, despite a proclamation that, the Chinese Maritime Customs Office is the onlyauthority for the collection of Government duies, and that there is to be no interference with import and ex port charges, pickets continue to main, tain the boycott by seizing cargo after, it leaves the custody of the Customs. This places the Government in a serious position, as it amounts to piracy of foreign goods. The British river steamer lias resumed service between. Hong Kong and Canton.

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MELBOURNE, 'March 1

According to press reports, the true name oi tlie man sentenced as xiougnm xio tier Ison m tlie Almeida mumer case is names riantis .ucxiahon nui,ing, noiii acw /jeaiaiKi. i.l is alleged Unit lie went Lo the car with JAooert.son, wiiose papers disappeareu. aubseyyieiii l v ne passed m ill sell oil as Robertson. It is luiilier stated unit ALcAlalion is a prison escapee, and that the possession of a crooned nose led to his arrest in connection with the Almeida murder alter he had evaded the police over a year. BRITISH NEW ZEALAND. LONDON, Feb. 28. The newspapers of Australia and New Zealand made it their proudest boast that .they were written and published after tlie model of British newspapers, declared Lord Burnham, preeiding at the annual meeting of the Newspaper Dress Fund. Australians and New Zealanders took British standards as their own and British practices as those beet adapted to the British world. AUSTRALIAN COASTAL SHIPPING. SYDNEY, March 1. ft is reported that as a result of efforts made by the Illawarra and South Coast Steam Navigation Conipony to restore shipping services by enlisting volunteers a full crew is ready for one vessel, which will probably lie despatched from Sydney today with a volunteer crew. No difficulty will be experienced in handling cargo at outposts, though it is thought in union circles that the watersiders might feel called on to take action.