BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Timaru Herald, Issue 170307, 30 August 1920, Page 7

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

QUEENSLAND LESSON

REPLY TO BRITISH PROTEST.

By Electric Telegraph—CoDyright. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Aosn. LONDON, August 26. Mr J. jr. Humber, the Queensland Agent-General, referring to tho British 1 Australasian- Socicly'3 letter, authorised tho following statement-: —"When Sir r i heodore met the pastoral representatives, .he offered to repeal the Act in the current session, and asked that the opposition shown, to the Government's loan proposals should be withdrawn and the previous ha.rmon ions relations with the investing public and Queensland restored. Tho deputation 011 tho whole cheerfully accepted Mr Theodore's offer, but desired a further pledge not tto introduce a pastoral lease tax. This Mr Theodore re garded ns an attempt to subordinate the Legislative functions of a. sovereign State to the dictatorship of outside, irresponsible parties. Mr Theodore held that this was more than even the. Imperial Government itself would ask a sovereign State to submit to.

SIR JAMES ALLEN AT WORK. Received 5.5 p.m., Aug. 29th. LONDON, August 2S. . Sir James Allen after visiting Newcastle. and Darlington has recommended the New Zealand Government to acquire British electrical switches in preference to American for the Mangaluia water-power works. He also reported that Newcastle experiments with Taranaki ironsand were scientifically satisfactory.

MOSLEM FANATIC. MURDERS BRITISH OFFICER. 1 Router's Telegrams. DELHI, August 27. Mr R. "\V. Willoughby. Deputy Commissioner of Cheri, in the province of j Ouclh, was assassinated at his residence during - tho. absence of servants, bv a. local Moslem, fanatic. The latter was a convict who had served sentences for burglary and assaulting a magistrate. Three others, have been arrested. The evidence disclosed that the crime was the outcome of the Khalifate agitation and the prosecution of certain itinerant 1 preachers in connection therewith.