BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 4 January 1929, Page 6

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

OVERNIGHT NEWS SUMMARY (Per Press Association—Copyright) BERLIN, Jan. 3. The unemployed increased by 26 per cent, during December. The total number throughout Germany is 1,300,000. LONDON, January 2. The Association of British Chambers of Commerce, despite Mr Churchill s rejection of the plea for the restoration of penny postage, is beginning a new campaign in favour of the penny rate for letters to the Dominions. LONDON, Jan. 2. At Hull, the Magistrates heard an application by Eva Venus, for a separation order from Wm. Venus, a vocalist, who gave evidence that his wife was so lazy that he had to wash her., dress her, cut her nails, comb her hair, and do the housework. The application was dismissed. VANCOUVER, January ]. The historic old Sing Sing prison, shelter for thousands of crooks, has passed into history. Its antiquated stone cells, poisonous with Die memories of over a century of human wretchedness, have been abandoned fora beautiful new building costing £1,000,000 and housing 17' • prisoners. CONSTANTINOPLE Jan. 2 In obedience to the new peremp tory summons, men and women of all ages, greybeards and women with babies, crowded to the newly-impro-vised national schools, to learn the new alphabet. Instruction in reading and writing will be given to fully two-thirds of the population of the country. LONDON, January 2. A copyright message from Sir Hubert Wilkins says: “Nowheie in the universe rang ou' the Old and rang in the Nev Y";;r more cheerfully than at this cosmopolitan outpost ol industry. ( lang _ I.ells, grenade detonators. . ;d steam whistles, booming four inch harpoonim: guns, the rattle of rifles and rcvolv- : fire interrupted the peace loom of th whaling guns, and stiircd millions > birds, our constant companions. Th revelry continued all night. There is still much to be done. Whether we wil continue work immediately depei -s cm the whims of the weather.” VANCOUVER, January 2 A Memphis message states ti t Mississippi’s fourth lynching cliui' g 1928 occurred within five hours <4 the end of the yea>Charles Shepherd, a negro con’. ■ t had killed Joseph Duval, a p' son warden, abducted Ins twenty year o’d daughter and carried her into the hills. Thirty hours later she staggered into the village. Curiously' a woman named Laura

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