"STOP PRESS” NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16573, 4 November 1921, Page 12

"STOP PRESS” NEWS.

CReserYetl for Tnte .ipaTTP received after the paper Tins gone--ter press). LATE CABLES. LONDON, November The. Lord Chief Justice and Justices Sankey and Ac too. in a considered' judgment, upheld the refusal of tlu> ' Local Government Boards auditors io sanction an item of £27-15, representing the London County Council's expenditure on Sliakesperian theatrical productions to which school children were admitted free. The judgment stated that, while the educational code recognised the taking ' <d children to places of educational in- I lerest, the Judges did not think the } section allowed the Council to provide theatres in which paid actors j performed. The Judges could not see j that theatres wero places of eduea- I rional interest. THE STATE OF IRELAND. LONDON, November 3. ! The extreme Unionists are more I active than ever in the House of j Commons. They heckled Sir llama:- j Greenwood (Secretary for "Ireland; regarding alleged breaches of tho !truce and the landing of arms in Ireland. Sir Hamar Greenwood vigorously denied that the-.police were not permitted to disperse Sinn Fein camps which were violating the truce. The liaison machinery was most successful. As regards camps and the commandeering of buildings, he repudiated the suggestion that anyone informing the police would be shot. 'l<- -v declared that there* had been mo v /j» clear case of murder by Sinn I , int is ’ 3 uce the truce. Ho had been in Inland himself, and did not believe that to the truce. He described the assertion that South Ireland firms hod been ruined by the Sinn Fein hovcott '• oi British goods as exaggerated. A J < umber of prosecutions for intimidation bad resulted in convictions. >/>- | | I I I * , 1 MEETING OF CREDITORS. A meeting of creditors iu the bank* rupt estate of Cyril St George Oliver { farmer, of Lowry Peaks, Culvordon ! was held tliis afternoon, .Mr A. W. j Eames, Of field 1 Assignee, presiding. Debts amounted to £5191 12s 2d, anil i assets to £2359 17s, leaving a den- | ciency of £2831 15s 2d. Debtor attn- J buted bis failure to the slump. The • realisation of the assets was left to | the Official Assignee and a represen I tative of the National Mortgage am j Agency Co., Ltd., and it v.as dec-id ■ I hat. the bankrupt should be employ e-d to look after the farm until tb. | stock was sold.