OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17245, 11 January 1924, Page 10

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

MELBOURNE, January 10. The Japanese training squadron has arrived and wag officially welcomed. PARIS, January 9. It has been raining all day in Paris, and it is feared that the floods wili resume their destructive course. PARIS, January 10. Herr Heintz, president of the Separatist Government of the Bavarian Palatinate, was assassinated while dining in a restaurant iu Speyer. SYDNEY. January 10. At the wool sales competition was keen all sections of buyers operating. The market closed at rates equal to the best point of the week. Greasy merino sold up to 37id. SYDNEY. January 10. A party cf six. when surf bathing ar B a Hina was caught in the undertow and carried out. Robert Harris and John Shiirnnon were drowned, but the others were rescued after a hard struggle SYDNEY, January 10. Lad}- Jeliicoe and her daughter have returned from a holiday visit to the Far East. They will sail for New Zealand by the Maheno on Friday. SYDNEY. January 10. Bush fires ar~ still raging near the ‘ suburbs and are causing considerable damage. A fire at Coonabarabran destroyed six shops. The damage is estimated at £25.000. MANILA, January 9. Religious fanatics on Bucas Island killed nineteen Philippine constabulary soldiers. including two officers. The Government immediately ordered the concentration of tho constabulary on the Island of Mindanao for the purpose of an expedition to avenge the killings. The slayers are believed; to be members of the Colorum Religious Society, with branches in many parts of the Philippines. The cause of the fighting is unknown. LONDON, January 10. Speaking at an inaugural banquet of the International Advertising Congress which 6000 delegates will attend during the Empire Exhibition j. n July, Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame. President of the Board of Trade, said he could promise that whatever Government v.-as in power, or office (laughter) the conventionists would receive an enthusiastic reception from both Government and Opposition. The convention would help to make the exhibition representative of the whole Anglo-Saxon race. %* MELBOURNE, January 10. Among opponents of the one-big-union scheme proposed in an application lodged . with the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, is the Seamen’s Union which, while favouring the general principle underlying the move ment, views the question from an international standpoint. The union, consequently, intends to take excepj tion to the White Australia clause in the constitution, contending that there are coloured members in the seamen’s ranks, and that unionism should not be a test of colour. NEW YORK. January 10. Returning from South and East Africa, Mr* “Pussyfoot” Johnson I greeted Pressmen with the statement: |“ I am not going to die until the whole world is dry. Prohibition is | making progress in England and South Africa, and the Sultan of Zanzibar is an ardent prohibitionist.” Mr Johnson related how hooligans gave him trouble in Port Elizabeth. “It was a. wild night for trying to make a speech.” he said “but I waited until the next night, when 100 Rhodes scholars at the University threw the brawlers out and maintained ordej\” Mr Johnson added that his travels were beginning to take physical toll. His left eye was weak, and he was growing deaf, but he would continue propaganda work as long as he was able to talk.