BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 1 March 1929, Page 7

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

OVERNIGHT NEWS SUMMARY. Per Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, February 27. Prominent exhibitors are urging that henceforth the British Industries Fair be held in the summer, when overseas foreign buyers would be able to combine business with holiday. LONDON, February 27. The British Legion has shelved the national pilgrimage to Gallipoli owing to the high cost of fares, due to the proposed longer trip, accompanied by sight seeing from the railway. BERLIN, February 27. Walter Scherz, who was helmsman on two Zeppelin trans-Atlantic crossings, when ballooning over Friedrichshafen, climbed into the gas chamber to free some fouled ropes, and was asphyxiated. WASHINGTON, February 27. Mr William D. Mitchell, SolicitorGeneral of the United States, has accepted the Attorney-Generalship in the Hoover Cabinet which will come into office on Monday. Mr James W. Good (Iowa), will be Secretary ol War in Mr Hoover’s Cabinet. LONDON, February 27. Though Britain, following a warmer week-end, has been thrown back to the ice age conditions, nevertheless there are welcome harbingers of warm summer. Shells have just been found on the Cornish coast, brought by the Gulf Stream from New Zealand and the Pacific Islands beaches. They have never before been seen, except in the years marked by hottest summers. The last occasion was 1921. LONDON, February 27.

The headquarters of the Miners’ Federation, in reply to a question whether Mr A. J. Cook intended to visit Australia, as rumoured, discountenanced the story. He is at present at Geneva.

Mr Cook stated that his doctor had advised a health trip to Australia. He would be unable to make the journey till after the general election, probably in June.