OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17410, 12 December 1924, Page 14

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

LONDON. December It j Mr Frank Dirksee been elected ! President of the Royal Academy, Sir Aston "Webb having resigned ns he had j reached the age limit. j The Waterside Workers' Federation has issued in the Arbitration < ourt a ! summons to have Mr Justice Powers's ; original award amended in the part’ I cular section affecting rates. T,-f >NDON. Decemher 11The miners’ executive has agreed to meet the mine-owners to discuss the present unsatisfactory position of the industry. LONDON. Decemtier 10. Three men were killed and eight in : j:irr,l by falls of earth in the Bradford j colliery, near Manchester. | others were entrapped, hut were rescued after three hours. MELBOURNE. December 11 i Mr Bruce stated tint the shipowner? | had decided not. to put any obstacle in the way of the waicrsiders application | for a new award being heard by th« ' Court and foreshadowed n speedy terndnatior; of tht d.’.put** PARTS. December 10. I At the further examination of tapi tain Arthur, his counsel. M. Gide. claimI ed that French law provided that not ! more than three years must have I elapsed since the alleged offence was ' committed, for extradition to be posI sible. In this case five years had j elapsed. Mixnox. December 10. The Pacific Cable Board has postj j«med a final decision on the reduction j of Press rates until a full hoard moeti ing is possible. j Sir Campbell Stuart and Mr L. J Paeauci. Canadian representative are i at present absent from London. LONDON. December 11. The railway men have launched an j elaborate programme of new demands on behalf of 030.000 workers, i The demands include pensions for all j grades at 00. twelve days annual holi--1 clay instead of six. the inclusion of meal times in the working day and a six-hour day for signalmen. SYDNEY. December 11. A party of Maoris, beaded hv Ratana. has arrived from the Wembley Exhibition after a word tour, on route to New Zealand. One of the members. Rikirangi Paora, stated that he bad sold the i rights of certain railway inventions of : his to a Japanese companv. after havj ing them refused by the Now Zealand I Government. He added that the inI ventions would greatly conduce to the | preservation of life. WARS AW. Decern be r 10. | A skeleton with a broken skull was recently found under a. cell in Lemberg • Prison. - - The police were mystified, but it. has ' n«.\v been established that the skeleton | i< that of a woman who was sentenced I to life imprisonment for the murder of her lover. While in prison the woman won £3OO in an Austrian lottery. It is believed that a prison warder killed the woman and stole the ticket. A warrant has been issued for his arLOXDON. December 11 In proposing the toast of the Imperial Economic Committee at a dinner given by the. Imperial Shipping Committee at the Carlton Hotel Sr < un iffe-Lister (formerly Sir P. Lloyd Gra-me >. president of the Board of Trade, said it was designed to assist in marketing the dominions' produce in Britain, and to help the common interests of producers and consumers. The committee would provide more cargo and enable shipowners to g.ve reasonable freights, i Sir H. Mackinder presided and Sir j Joseph Cook and Sir James Allen were | present. BERLIN. December If). Cabinet has decided to resign a 1 the j earliest possible date, leaving Dr Marx to arrange the date with President. ! Ebert Tt. is authoritatively stated that the ! resignation is due to the. fart that the elections have not resulted in the majority necessary to enable < ’abinet to i carrv out its policy. 1 It is not yet certa.n which partv wiil ; be entrusted with the formation of a ; Government, but it is believed the German Nationals will be asked, as there j is some hope for the formation of a j coalition of the Nationals, the People's j Party, and the » outre Party, with the. j benevolent neutrality of the Social Demo* rats. ROME. December 10. The League Council discussed M. Branting's report on the Mandates i Commission, and resolved to ask the j British Government to explain the | present Anglo-American negotiations | j with reference to mandates, and also | the discussions at the Imperial Confer- ! ence upon this subject, j Mr Chamberlain pointed out that he. I must first obtain the permission of the j dominion Governments, j The report states that, the ('emmission is concerned chiefly with PalesI tine, Syria. British ('ameroons, British Togoland, New Guinea. Nauru, and SaI moa. and the Japanese mandated , islands, and adds that they arc being administered in the spirit and letter of the League Covenant and the. terms of the mandates.