CONDENSED CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 173, 23 June 1926, Page 4

CONDENSED CABLES.

The success of the Fascist regime in Italy is shown by tlio national Budget, which has a credit balance of 811 million lire, whereas there was a deficit of 164 millions at the end of May, 1925. Fire destroyed the Mechanics’ Institute at Geelong, Australia. Tbo damage amounts to £26,000. The outbreak is the third in three months, and is believed to be the work of a maniac.

On Saturday morning a policeman patrolling the grounds of Buckingham Palace saw a prowler in the path leading to the King’s apartment. The man did not answer tlio challenge, captured. Ho proved to* be a sailor. A report has been sent to Windsor to ,thc lving, who will decide if a prosecution shall follow. ■ A conference of Australian State Premiers to make a second protest against the Federal Government’s proposal to abolish per capita payments has commenced.

A message from Seattle, United States, states that another attempt will he mado by the Detroit Arctic Expedition to find land in the Arctic. Members of the party have arrived from Alaska for parts to repair the aeroplanes. Captain AVilkins remains at Fairbanks. The London Financial News expresses the opinion that, on the expiration of the Spanish and Portuguese treaties shortly, the British Government will reduce the heavy duties on home-made spirits, and increase the duty on port and other highly spirituous wines. Following the West Ham Guardians’ refusal to abate the scale of relief for unemployed, amounting to 55s for a man and his wife and famiy of six, Mr Neville Chamberlain, the Minister for Health, has, states the London Daily Mail, issued an ultimatum to the guardians refusing further loans,, and threatening to supersede the guardians when existing funds are exhausted. It is pointed out that the guardians are bankrupt. They owe tho Ministry of Health £1,970,000, besides a bank overdraft of £390,000.

A report from Tientsin states that delegates from Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso hold final pourparlers and decided that Yen’s Cabinet should announce its resignations on June 22, and that the two war lords should enter Pekin on June 24 and decide the personnel of tho future Cabinet after an interview there.

Tho President of Poland has accepted tho resignation of General Szetpycki, who fought a duel with M. Skrzynski last week and also tho resignation of General Haller, commander of tho Posen Army Corps, a prominent opponent of Marshal Filsudski, who was hostile to the recent coup d’etat in Warsaw.

A message received at Vancouver from Para states that Duggan, the Argentine aviator, who set out to lly from New York to Buenos Aires, arrived safely at Virgin, Brazil, on Sunday. A previous message from Rio do Janeiro stated that tho Brazilian Government was offering 1000 dollars reward for tho identity of tho source of a false radio report broadcasted that Duggan had been found. V