BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuters Telegrams.]

PRESERVATION OF CHURCHYARD. LONDON, April 20.

A world-wide appeal for funds to restore the Stoke Pogcs Church and to purchase the adjoining ten acres, has been fully successful. The land will shortly lie handed over as a national trust, and Gray’s church will thus bo saved as a beauty spot. Australians ami New Zealanders subscribed generouslv.

wilt EL ESS EXPERIM ENTS. WASHINGTON. April 20. During the American fleets operations in The Pacific, an endeavour will he made by means of the high frequency radio to communicate with amateurs in Australia and New Zealand using the signal “N.R.R.L.” Ibe experiment probably will be made from the Seattle. The other vessels--'' will be sealed, as war conditions are being simulated.

JAZZ BAND IN CHUHCII. LONDON, April 20.

All Saints Parish Church at Wandsworth was crowded to hear a jazz hand from a well-known West End Music Hall accompanying the hymns at the evening service. This is the first tune that a jazz band has taken part in it church service at AH Saints. Ihe congregation included a number ot. theatricals.

PHOTOGRAPHING I.ADY PLAYERS,. LONDON, April 19. Press photographers have been excluded from the hard court tennis championships at Torquay. It is understood that the, Liawu Tennis Asso-

ciation has taken this action on account of undesirable photographs of women players appearing in the newspapers. The photographers are asking whether the prohibition "ill extend to Wimbledon and the other big tournaments.

BLACKS’ MENACING ATTITUDE CAPETOWN, April 20.

\n ugly situation lias developed at the Bloemfontein native location. An attempt by the police to interfere xvitb a native beer drinker was resisted by a mob of four thousand natives. The police were compelled to retire after a native had been killed and sevo-iaT police wounded. SuWquently the local defence force was called out and picketed the street in fear of a native attack on the town.

The natives maintained a menacing altitude but the Minister of Justice stated ia the Assembly that the posi-

tion was easier. The railway regiment arid the police are standing by.