NEWS AND NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIII, Issue 3076, 7 November 1929, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

The Commonwealth Government s intention to erect a high tariff wall is revealed in an announcement by the Prime Minister to the British Association of Manufacturers.

Canada’s trade with the Orient is growing to an amazing extent. Tho value of her exports for the year ended September 30 was £6,000,000. This was double the value for any previous year.

It is expected tljat 315 holders of the Victoria Cross will attend the Prince of Wales’ dinner, which will bo a record gathering.

Mediatory influences are apparently working to prevent a clash between Marshal Pilsudski and the Speaker of the Polish Diet, whom Pilsudski to his face, called an impertinent fool. , the Speaker adjourned the sitting for a month.

King George has returned to London from Sandringham.

In view of the King’s good progress towards complete recovery the P of Wales is planning to resume his tour of Africa which was cut snort in 1928- He will start in Januaiy, and will stay at Government House, Capetown, as the guest of the Gover-nor-General, the Earl of Athlone, a few days.

Three giant Fokker monoplanes for Australian National Airways, Etd ordered by Kmgsford Smith and Wi C. T. P- Ulm have arrived at py an ®> ■ They are abnost identical with the Southern Cross.

Dean Askew, of kelson, New Zea land, interviewed in Melbourne after a nine months’ trip abroad, saul that religion in its widest sense was eairied out better than ever m England today, and the general tone was improving.

The Australian tenor, Mr O’Shea, made a successful debut in New York. He will be widely broadcast over the radio on November lb in company with Frances AHa and Pasquale Amato, singing m “Madame Butterfly.”

After twenty months, Ba y® message, the ban has been lifted regarding the arrest of alleged Com munists. Some thousands have been arrested and have already been t^ d in camera at various places and sentenced.