BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 20 November 1923, Page 8

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPnUGHT SUMMARY OVERNIGHT NEWS Mr.LBOLnIvE, November 19. The autnorities continue to keep a strict- watch against any recurrence of the recent troubles. A strong force ol police made severa. baton charges, and. dispersed a large crowd at Preston, winch had been ... the habit of gathering in the streets ac week-ends for wagering purposes. The free use of batons quelled the (Received November 19, 9.4-5 p.in.) MELBOURNE, November 19. In reply to tiie Victorian Retailers’ Council, which asked for State relief for shopkeepers, who suffered during tiie riots, the Government expresses regret at the damage caused and the heavy losses. The official statement adds that while the Government has a general duty to maintain order, there is. no legal liability to make good losses arising from a breach of the peace, and the Government cannot assume any responsibility for .compensation. A meeting of shopkeepers formed a Riot Sufferers’ League, with the object of obtaining full compensation for damage sustained. It was resolved to explore every avenue political or otherwise without delay. SYDNEY, November 19. After Cabinet discussed the situation. (Sir George Fuller stated that there was nothing to announce, except to reiterate that the Government would give the House an opportunity, on Tuesday to affirm its last FHday’s decision. SYDNEY, November 19. Th? Nationalist Party, at a meeting, will discuss the situation on Tuesday. It is believed that efforts are being made to change the personnel of the Cabinet, possibly in the direction of including members of the Progressive Party, on the lines of the Federal ■Cabinet. LONDON, November 18. Sir William Wyndham, a member of the Overseas Emigration Committee which lately visited the Dominions, interviewed on his return to Southampton, said: ■‘lmprovement in the European situation is the key to- increased snip, ration to Australia The Australians feel that fresh markets must be !'<>;>iv-’ if large numbers of new settlers sire to be absorbed. In New Zealand ■the best land is already taken up, and further roads and transport facilities ere necessary before settlers in large cumbers can be absorbed. However, the possibilities are enormous.”

LONDON, Novemer 17. The Duke of Devonshire, presiding iu the first meeting of the Executive Council of the Empire Exhibition, since the Board has been established, said iie was of the opinion that there was every reason to regard the future confidently. NEW YORK. November 18. Leonard Portano, aged 33, living a. Keliher (Minnesota), did not like the attention Oscar Timmy was paying to "Myrtle Sanders, so lie opened fire on Timmy when they met in the street, wounding him in the leg. Timmy went and complained to a police officer, and Jim Wilson went to arrest .Portano, who shot him dead. Portano then visited the home of his sweetheart, and shot her mother dead. Meeting the girl’s father on the highway, Portano bound him with a rope against a fence and slowly killed him. By this time Timmy had his wound dressed, and was limping 1i0n... when he met Portano, who shot him dead. The murderer then fled to the woods, where the police are hot in pursuit. NEW YORK. November IS. Bill Mackenzuk, formerly professor in the Prague University, was arrested by the Saskatoon police, after a -sp4ctacular career. He was convicted of theft last year, but escaped from the guards. Since then he has shot and been -shot at on many occasions. Two months ago the police recognised him as he robbed a railway freight car, and he escaped under a hail of lead. Later he stole a motor car, and decamped, with the police in full chase. He escaped, though the police recorded the car and stolen goods. Meckenzuk recently won the heart of a girl in. the Arran district, Saskatchewan, and yesterday was set for the wedding. When the celebration was at its height, 100 guests being present, the police dashed in, and arrested tin bridegroom, who fought like a demon. To-day when Mackenzuk was being taken to gaol to face twenty charge.. a thousand people crowded the station platforms to obtain a glimpse of th; most notorious bad man, who had infested the northern prairies for many years. LONDON, November 7. The conference of parties reached a basis of settlement in the boilermakers’ dispute, which lasted 29 weeks. The men will ballot thereupon. for Chiltlren’s Hacking Cougß Woods’ Great Peppermint Gora