BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[“Tire Times” Service.]

TRADE VALUER. LONDON. June 10. Speaking at a- luncheon to the Imperial Council Conference, Hon. Amerv hypothesising the necessity of clear comprehensive thinking gave figures showing the excess of manufactured goods and coal exported from Britain, coin; a red with similar imports, amounted to thirty-two millions in tho case of Kuropenn countries and £9B millions in countries outside ot F.uropc o,s f against £1(15 millions in the Empire whereof L'77 millions were Dominions. Referring to the magnitude of the Dominions trade compared with tlieir populations, Air Aniery showed Australia and New Zealand bought eight mil- . lion strling worth of British goods last war. One Australian or New Zea-

lander was worth to British trade, sit hundred times as much as a Russian, one hundred times as much as a Chinaman and iw i'ntv times as much as an Am-

CIIUIU II UNION. OTTAAYA, June 10. Doctor S. D. Chown, General Superintendent of the Methodist-Church, before eight thousand persons to-dav declared the Presbyterian Church of Canad:!. Congregational Church of Canada, and Methodist Church, along with the Council of the local Union of Churches are now united and constituted ns one church, to be designated the United Church of Canada. Principal D. D. Ritchie at the first general Council said “To-day. Canada gives a leadership to Protestantism all over the World.”

AN AIR EXPEDITION. MOSCOW, June 10. An aerial expedition of six aeropiauts ’including four constructed in Russia h-fi for Pekin, in the p>roscuec of thousands of people including members of tin- Government. Many other aeroplanes escorted the expedition on tho first stage of the journey, the object if which is to survey an air route i 'toss Siberia, over Galie desert to China. I)' siucossful it is proposed to form a Soviet Chinese Company and l talslish permanent communication between Europe end China over this route. AIOROS OUTRAGE. .MANILLA, June 10. Fourteen Morns were killed, t'"o captured and seven i onstabulary wound'd when a patrol found the Moms ha-' burned the house of l.ano constabulury. They afterwards dynamited the Morns stronghold.

AN EARTHQUAKE. DON RON, June If. -** The Australian Consul of China Inland Mission, has received word front 'Dili! u of a devastating earthquake which completely "reeked that town. Thirteen hundred -were killed and a large number rendered homeless. A lire broke out in many quarters and all building-- were destroyed. The foreign r-oinmmiity suffered no bodily injury and members thereof are returning to A''ni na a in.

\YOII K URS ( O.M PUNSA I lON. LONDON. Juno 11. The Australian Press Association’s Geneva correspondent says tlie Labour Conference of the League has ended. Tlie tinal reading of the workers’ compensation convention was adopted by Kf.ti' S. There were sixteen ((listen-

tin ions from voting. Amendments were rushed at the lasi minute. There v.as no opportunity for careful study of them. Nevertheless the workers group unearned their objective, and the measure was carried. Al ORDER OF R!X. THE LORONER'S COMMENT. LONDON. June 10. At the inquest on Rix a verdict of wilful murder was returned and Bishop was r.unmiUed fur trial. The evidence disclosed that Rix had discharged Bishop in February. The police submitted a statement wherein Bishop said he went to the house at one o’clock in the morning fur no sm'cial reason and stood outside Ilex's dor. lie thought lie was waking and '*) ” I went in and hit him with ill** I hopper. lie "as good to the other servants, but was always messing me a bon I ." The Coroner said it, was a brutal murder. There seemed to Ik* growing up a new generation of ruthless hoys and immoral bnvs who thought nothing of tubing human life. The moral of 1 Ills ua-: " Always keep the door loek-

BFCn.IAR WILL CASE. LON LON, June 10. A peculiar will civ is being heard in i h * Cham erv Di vision. sir Joint Rees, who. before his marriage ill Is*';: |. entered the Roman Catholic ( liutvh and inserted a clause in his will in 19111. disqualifying from participation in the residuary estate any person luoles-ing Hie Reman Catholic faith. Tho trustees of the estate therefore sought a ruling whether, his •on. Sir Richard, who was baptised a I! mum Catholic, was entitled to £74,OiiD iroui tie* residuary of the estate. Sir Richard lire-, in an affidavit, s—said that in order to (dense his mother lie bad from time in time attended tho tk Cel Indie '.-rii.es, bin had no intention in i ni ui e. of professing such faith. Mr .In-tiie Law rein e ordered tho money to be paid to Sir Richard.

AN UNEXPECTED RESIGNATION. LONDON, June 11. The “Daily Express” states; Frank Herbert Culler, who had been invited by the Premier to become Chairman of the new Food Council, lias not only declined, hut he has resigned from the Civil Servile. The reason has not been disclosed. AI \TTF< ITU'S ANNIVERSARY. ROAIF. June LI. The Matteotii anniversary passed off without incident.