CONDENSED CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 174, 24 June 1926, Page 10

CONDENSED CABLES.

In the British House of Commons the Financo Bill passed the committee stage. A succession of amendment was defeated, including a suggested reduction of sugar and whisky duties and tho entertainment tax. Mr Churchill stated that instead of remission there was a probability, if the present situation continued, that the revenue must be strengthened.. Tho arrests in connection with the plot against Kemal Basha, tho Turkish President, include many deputies of tho Progressist Party and the wellknown General Refet Pasha. Kemal, addressing a Smyrna delegation, said that his own death was no cause for tho nation to abandon Republican progress." A boy sleep-walker in Milan (Italy) killed a man during a nightmare, and awoke to find his dream a tragic reality. Guisepe and Carlo Migliasso lived at Asti with their widowed mother. The boys slept together in order that Guiseppe might prevent Carlo harming himself. Carlo, on Sunday night, suddenly, awoke in fear. He had been dreaming that lie attacked a burglar, whom lie shot with a revolver. He called Guiseppe, but there was no reply. He lit a candle, and fainted on finding his brother dead on tho floor. When he recovered he found he had walked to his mother’s room, got a revolver, and shot liis brother. He is now almost a nlaniac. Tho Hon. T. J. Roos, Minister of Justice in- the South African Parliament, assured a Labour deputation that lie was prepared to accept the National Labour Council’s suggestion that the Union Jack and the South African flag should have full equality and bo flown side by side. He believed this, solution would be acceptable to the Transvaal and Free State Nationalists, but it remains to be seen whether it was acceptable to the South African Party. The Maritime Conference at Geneva adopted a draft convention for the repatriation of seamen, providing, that seamen landed during or on the' termination of a contract be given the right to be taken back to iheir own country port where they signed on or the port where they embarked.