OVERNIGHT CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17461, 12 February 1925, Page 11

OVERNIGHT CABLES.

M.ELBOURNE, February 11. A heavy thunderstorm, accompanied by torrential rain, caused serious damage in the city and suburbs. Many buildings were struck by lightning. MELBOURNE, February 11. Tom Walsh has lodged an a.ppeal against the fines imposed for attempting to induce union officials to do something in the nature of a. strike. PARIS, February 10Yiolent fighting occurred in Marseilles when Communists tried to break up a meeting addressed bv General do toastolnau, one of the French leaders of Fascism. Sixty persons were injured, or shot dead. LONDON. February 10. With the King’s approval the Patemt Office is making out Air Asquith’s patent under the title Earl of Oxford and Asquith, in time to enable Mr Asquith to take his seat in the House of Lords next week. LONDON February 10. The lobbyist of the. •• Daily Express ’’ says that, as a result of Mr Churchill’s effort, ihe Army Estimates have l>een reduced to £500.000 and the Air Force Estimates £3,000.000. but the Admiralty's Estimates still show an enor mo us ine re a se. LONDON. February 10. The Daily Herald ’’ says that Cabinet has definitely decided to use all possible administrative powers in order to reduce the aggregate amount of unemployment benefits.. Cabinet, has appointed a committee to consider an amendment of the Aof of 1913 empowering trade unions to impose a perca pit a Ipvy. f/ON DON. February 10. The “Daily Telegraph'’ states that, the Government's proposals relating to the Geneva Protocol are still not. ready for submission to t.ho dominions, after which an exchange of views will occupy an uncertain -period. Therefore. :t is regarded as inevitable that the discussion cannot be resumed at Geneva in March. February 10. A man named Arthuip- Wicks has been committed for trial <»n his own confession of bigamy. Micks told the polijre that he first married in South Africa in 1880. He later discovered tbafc his wife’s first husband was still alzixe. When he heard that the latter was reallv dead he re-married his wife. Later he went to New Zealand and trad never heard from his wife from 19*07 to 1918. Wicks served with the New Zealanders in France during Gibe war and. believing his wife to be dead, be married Phyllis Dodson, tonter h 0 learned that his first wife was istill alive. LONDON. February 10. Air T,. C- M. S. Amery. speaking a> the Royal Colonial Tnstaitute. appealed to financiers and business men to use their power to bring pror.&ts to the Empire. I lie C olonial .Secretary compared the growth of the Empire, ifherein effort was dissipated, with that- r>f the United States, which ted its whole energies upon development. He contended that, what the United States had done the Empire conj ld do. Mr Amery urged British people to give n deliberate preference to Empire products. LONDON. February 10. The Berlin correspondent, of the “ Daily Telegraph ” says that the ©xChonccllor. Dr Marx, has been elected by a small majority to’succeed Herr Braun in th«a Prussian Premiership. Dr Marx is trying to foflJrn a cabinet consisting of members of the Centre Party, Democrats and Sq mja lists. but be cannot gain a majority unless he induces the People’s Partly to remain Dr Marx's election is ;j -victory for Ihe Republicans over the. Nationalists and Communists who had limited to defeat Herr Braun. LONDON. Fnitrnarv JO. The Church of Scotland Bill, introduced previously by a Conservative, was re introduced l?v Sir .Tofvn Gilmour. "ho. in moving the ser-orvl reading, said the Bill aimed at inrijeasing the control of the Church over its properties and endowments. He *l>elir>v©d the measure would open the way. at an early dale, to the. union desired beI ween Ihe Established < huyrh and the l nited Free Church, hoi* ling out prospect of infinitely better Christian service to the Scottish pecflrjle. Hie second rending was .(tarried. XEM "YORK. Fell rua.rv |f». Philadelphia is the principal centre in the United .States for r.:jnnufa©tur® mg illegal drink Ironi d©vialu red alcohoi. and Pittsburg is the. centre (or making illegal beer, according to a > rat ©men 1 by the Governor. Mr~Gitford Pinchot, in a message to the State Assembly, meeting at HarrH-'iburg. I he. Governor asked tor uhe passage of legislation to regulavo distilleries and breweries and slated tl lat, if the Bill were passed the sou rocs .s oi illicit liquor supplies in Pennsj Ivamiu would he dried up. “It, is a question of stopping tlio flood of poison drink poured out over the Slate and the flood of ciitimo. misfortune, .disease and death.,’* the GovTin* amount of specially denatured alcohol produced in Pliiiadc jphia, he added, had increased from BlX>,ooo to more than 7>.0<X),000 gallons in two NK W i< > RK. Fehrus» r y 1.0A fog. rivalling in densilty the blanket- of mist recently experienced in London, hut, hitherto unknown hero, settled over the northern halt* of the knifed Slates and flu- Atlantpk coast, and resu!tod in considerable .joss of life, many injuries to peopU’t, and much damage to property, and 4 great During the past two days Litre© ©l©irains and two ferry boats lu five collided. resulting in. the deaths »»f fourteen persons and others series'Lsly ini The Canadian Pacific steam* ir. Empress ot Scotland, collided with Ihe British freighter Scot sbu rgh. li he latter suffering considerable damage. Eleven hundred passengers <- ji incoming liners were unable to land until to-night. Tlii. occurred in New York. while j at ( hester. Rennsytvn nia , tire pprsons | were killed when a locomotive, ftidden Two persons were seriously injured | at Ncwhaven. Connecticut, in a ntotor- ; car and tram collision, and other ! minor accidents have been reported I from many places.