BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16175, 11 July 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

(Elcc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

LONDON, July 9.

The British Museum has acquired a fine copy of a Shakespeare first folio for £13,500, most of which was contributed by an anonymous donor. The annual report of the Empire Press Union expresses the hope that next conference will bo held in Australia and that New Zealand will bo included in the itinerary. The meeting adopted n resolution to approach the PostmasterGeneral and point ouli tho urgency of effective! Empire wireless communication. Frederick Sharp, solicitor, kite Of Wellington, giving expert evidence before a joint committee of the Houso of Lords and the House of Commons on the Guardianship of Infants Rill, explained the New Zealand laws for safeguarding infants. The committee was obviously impressed by the New Zealand precedents.

(Received July 11, 9.15 a.m.)

LONDON, Julv 10.

Brigadier General Ricavdo, while inspecting a reservoir at Stabane belonging to a. company in which ha is interested, fell in and was drowned.

(Received July 11, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, July 10.

Lloyd's Register gives tho quarterly shipbuilding returns, deducting 130 whereon work has b'aen suspended. The total tonnage being constructed in Great Britain and Ireland is 1,208,000, which is 682 below tho average for the year immediately prior pre-war period. The tonnage building abroad is 1,206,000, whereof that of Germany and Danzig amounts to 352,000, France 171,000, Italv 141,000, United States. 134,000, Holland 100,000.