LOCAL & GENERAL

Western Star, 18 October 1938, Page 2

LOCAL & GENERAL

The Prime Minister has received, congratulatory messages from all parts of New Zealand on his victory.

The Hon. Adam Hamilton returns to Invercargill this evening from the north. The King and Queen are likely to ex-, tend their visit to the United States at the conclusion of .their Canadian tour.

Britain's rearmament has caused itisgivings in Germany. The fact tnat America has also decided to increase her armaments is also causing anxiety.

Britain lias 2 3 l ace d another order with the United States for 400 new aeroplanes. France is also busy turning out new planes, and expects to have four thousand in the course Of twelve months.

Following police raid into barricaded opium smoking premises in .claming street, Wellington, three- Chinese were each fined £2O, and another 4,35, with costs, in default two months with rard labour. They were allowed seven days in which to pay. ■ . v

The railway goods shed at Queeastown wharf is to be replaced by a more modern structure, which is to be somewhat similar in design to the one recently erected for the road, services bianich. at Queenstown.

Two men are particularly pleased at the result. of the. election viz., 'Scrim,' the head of the Commercial Broadcasting Station and Mr Jordon, High Commissioner for New Zealand. The former will now have full powers over the air and the latter will be dictating to John Bull how to run. the Empire.

With the alteration in the boundaries of Riverton the number of votes cast on Saturday was 635. At The Rocks and New Windsor, which still remain in Wallace, 154 votes were recorded.

An indication that there will be no change in the personnel of the Cabinet and probably no re-allocation of portfolios in the Labour Government's second Ministry was given by the Prime Minister (the itt. Hon. M. J; Savage) *n an interview on Monday. \ Mr. toavage is in a unique position so far as more recent'political history in i\ew Zealand goes in that his Cabinet was returned intact. . It has not ' been uncommon in j>he past, even where a government has been returned at the polls, for there to be a gap o r so in the Ministry itself, '-

It is officially; estimated that 358 persons, of whom 270 w,ererebels, have died as a result of the disturbances in Palestine since October 1. The British ldst eight killed and 23 ' wounded.

.The scrutiny of the parliamentary electoral rolls to see that " there have been no cases; of .plural I "voting .at the General Election, on Saturday began m most electorates on Monday. Tin's will probably take from two or three days. The rolls this year were much larger than those fo r previous elections and the checking of them will, therefore, take longer than, hitherto.'

i'OTAUTAU ATHLETIC SPORTS. See Railway Department's' advertisement in this issue re..train:"arrangements ui connection with OtaiiW' Athletic Sports on Labour Day. The usual cheap Day Excursion tickets will b e issuable to Otautau, and Tuatape r e: trains ' connect a t Thornbury with fast passenger train running 'between InvercargiU and

The Prime Minister of ■ Eire (Mr Eamon de. Vafcm) 6mt a messa to 2000 _ demonstrators against partition who had gathered at Londonderry, declaring that the ending of the unnatural division was vital.as it affected the people oi as countries, Irish people all over Ireland and throughout' the world and Britons, because' while partition lasted goodwill- between; Britain and toe .was impossible and British safety could not be secured ■ . J

The.case of a widow who arrived m j New Zealand ami had to seek the. assistance of the Auckland Hospital Board was mentioned.by the chairman, 'Mr Allan J. Moody, at u ..meeting of v the board recently. I u fiv^'yeaS she reamouat ? sI 'e kept paying," until the lull amount was repaid. "I cainn ot mention her name," said. Mr Moody, -oat she showed a wonderful S pi r it. She is a worker and a trier.'

An announcement-from London mn that His Majesty 4he King h» £Pnt congratulations to the Queen of TWa on the.; twentieth .anniversary of her access.on to the.-throne of her small domam Salote Tubou is monarch of •e only independent, nation among the Pacific Islands.. The little earthly pamjl.se ove r which she ruleslies' about ~100 mles north of Auckland, midway between Fiji and,Samoa. It's pap S t.on is about 30,000. By the AngloGerman agreement of 1899, which wa- S subsequently accepted by the Unld States, the Tongan Islands under the Protectorate of Britain

There are those wL b Ocinplain that oil the romance and adventure of the sailor 8 life have departed with the gradual disappearance of the old square-'-igged sailing s l,jp S , whk;h im| real seamanship to manage. It w ill probably be admitted that'more public interest is exojted in the annual race of the grain ships from Australia to Europe than in any other activity of the mercantile marine, but the fleet of vessels in sail grows smaller each year Those who recall the visit of the Joseph Conrad four years ago (says the Melbourne 'Age'), w .iU be pleased 'to hear that Mr Alan Villiers, the owner, has ordered a square-rigger to be used ]n Australian waters. The Joseph Conrad lias been sold t 0 the United States Commission, but apparently Mr Villiei-s feels he cainnot be without a ea ship, so lie has ordered the Marian Eleanor, as the new vessel is to be named. She will b e built at "Port Cygnet, i.n Tasmania, and will be 75ft tone on -the waterline with a beam of 20ft 10in, and a depth of 10ft Gin. She is to be constructed entirely of Tasmania.* timber, and although provision will |, O made for an auxiliary engine, none will be. installed at. fivsl