UNEMPLOYMENT.
SENATE APPROVES INQUIRY.
SHARP DEBATE.
Washington, March 5.
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
MOTHER MURDERED ON DAUGHTER'S WEDDING DAY.
UNCLE'S OPPOSITION,
Auckland, March 7.
NAVY GRANT.
BIG UNEXPENDED BALANCE.
a
THE CHINA MAIL,
AMUSING COMEDY.
COUNT-OUT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
THIN ATTENDANCE.
SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1928.
WORLD PEACE.
"DOWN UNDER.”
EX-SOLDIERS MAKE A
MOVE.
AGREE TO CO-OPERATE.
AUSTRALIA'S BIG RESOURCES.
IMPERIAL COMMISSION.
Paris, March 7.
London, March 7. Two of the chief German or- In the House of Commons to- ganisations of ex-service men, re-day the Secretary of State for the presenting 4,000,000 old soilers, Dominions (Mr. L. S. Amery), have agreed to co-operate with told a questioner that ne nopea it the British Legion and ex-service men's organisations in France, Poland, Italy, Rumania, Jugo Slavia, Belgium, Portugal and Czecho-Slovakia in arranging a Australia's resources. world congress to discuss means of ensuring world peace.
would be shortly possible to an nounce the terms of reference and cae personnet of the Commission or inquiry into the development of
FILM STARS.
COSTS.
AUSTRALIA'S FLYING ·
PURCHASE OF UP-TO-DATE MACHINE.
FOR COMMERCIAL WORK.
Adelaide,, March 9. The most up-to-date commer- cial aeroplane in the Common- wealth arrived in Adelaide to- day, piloted from Melbourne by Capt. C. Miller, the well- known avintor of this State. The new machine is an eight-passen- ger DH61, and was manufactured by the De Havilland Aircraft Company, Ltd., to the order of a company which has been formed by Mr. MacRobertson, of Mel- The bourne, and Capt. Miller.
BUDGET WINDFALL.
London, March 6.
London, March 7. The Chancellor of the Excho As the result of an amusing The Senate to-day adopted a re- Tragedy crossed the path of a solution, submitted by Senator bride at New Lynn, 10 miles from quer (Mr. Winston Churchill), comedy the House of Commons
to-day,
when her gets a budget windfall of £957,000 was, counted out at 6 o'clock to- Wagner, requesting the Secretary Auckland, of Labour to investigate the ex-widowed mother was done to death in the shape of the unexpended day..
Major Sir Bertram Falle tent of unemployment in the and her uncle was arrested on a balance of last year's navy grant, United States, after a sharp de-charge of murder within two or of which the Singapore base ab- (Con).. in taking his first oppor bate, during which presidential three hours of the time fixed for sorbed £75,000 less than had been tunity in 19 years of submitting private member's motion, politics were aired.
the wedding. The news was re- provided. The total outlay on the a British Labour Proposal. ceived by the bridal party while unse to date has been £9,340,000 moved complaining of the treat.
out of total estimate of ment of invalided naval men. London, March 7. on the way to the ceremony. Sponsored by Mr.-R. C. Wall- The dead woman was Mrs. £9,415,000,
The attendance was very thin, The Auditor-General, in his re-and the Labour members several head and nine other Labour mem- Ernestina Mary Norgrove, (38). bers, a Bill was introduced to-day She was found dead in her bed port, draws attention to an ar-times drew attention to this, but in the House of Commons which room with her head and face ter- rangement to keep the armaments a quorum of 40 members was al-BRITONS & CANADA. Í SIDELIGHTS.ON COMPANY's motive power is turnished by a 1450 h.p.. Bristol-Jupiter engine, is designed to prevent unemploy-ribly battered, the blows appar- plants in commission, during the ways found. Later a Conserva-
A SETTLEMENT SCHEME
having a speed of 126 miles an ently having been inflicted with a slump in Admiralty orders, by the tive member drew attention to ment.
BEING CONSIDERED. Her brother-in-law, addition of normal prices, cover- the fact that the attendance bells
London, March 5,
hour and a cruising radius of be The measure proposes the ap-flut iron. pointment of
Financial secrets in connection tween 400 and 500 miles. A lug- a National Board, Alan George Norgrove (27) latering the dead charges on plant not had been rung and only 36 were
fully utilised, The estimated present.
Ottawa, March 9. · with Britain's attempt to com-
gage compartment is provided in 'consisting of eleven members of gave himself up to the police.
these additions, The Labour members were ab- the Cabinet and departmental The deceascil's 18-year-old amount of
An immigration policy, adding pete with Hollywood were reveal the front for 600lb. of freight.
It is understood that the ma- claim for damages. heads, to make advances from a daughter, Mavis, was to have £90,000 per year, will be reducible sent deliberately, as they imagin-2,000,000 British to the prairie ed in & fund of £10,000,000 yearly, which been married in the afternoon to according to additional Admiralty ed that the count out would only provinces within the next ten brought by J. D. Williams, who chine will be used for a general entail an adjournment until the years was advocated in Parlia was formerly in the film business commercial work, and services is to be expended in Britain or Robert George Firth. Mavis col-orders, or private work.
The report incidentally reveals evening, when Mr. O. Mosley in- ment to-day by General A. D. in Australia, against British Na- will be run between Adelaide and the Empire to promote develop-lapsed when informed of the mentai, employment, including tragedy, and was taken to a that the Admiralty, during the tended to move a resolution with McItae (Conservative). His pro- tional Pictures for alleged wrong the various country towns. land cultivation, mining and road neighbour's house. It is stated coal strike, released to private the object of recommending the posals contemplate the settlement ful dismissal.
that accused was opposed to his firms huge quantities of oil fuel, Labour finance policy.
of 50,000,000 acres by 300,000. Sir Patrick Hastings, who ap- The Labourites were surprised farmers. These, with their fami-peared for Williams, said that his niece's marriage and was unwill-which had been replaced, plus in- ing that deceased should attend terest, of 1 per cent. in kind.
and the Ministerialists chuckled lies and the consequent develop-ellent was an American, and was when it was learned that the ment, would add 2,000,000. He one of the founders of the First. the ceremony.
count out entailed an adjourn-suggested that the Government National Company. He was en- TROUSERS AT LAST. ment until the next day.
furnish a free homestead of 169 gaged as managing director of the acres and advance £100 to each defendant Company for 10 years, LATEST FEMININE FASHION
settler to get started; that no at a salary of £5,000 per annum, ANNOUNCED.
payment be demanded for the first and set about establishing a big nve years; and that when thirty and prosperous business rival to years be granted in which to re- America. It was an expensive pay the indebtedness. The total task because in the film business Tytam cost to the country-£60,000,000: stars demanded
construction, --
No Boles in Australia,
Canberra, March 7. "The Ministry does not propose to make any grants or doles to- wards relief of unemployment," said the Prime Minister (Mr. Bruce) in reply to a question ask- ed in the House of Representa- tives lo-day by Mr. Makin (Lab., S.A.)
"The matter," added Mr. Bruce, "has been discussed very fully by this House in the last few weeks and the Ministry made it clear that the solution of the problem is not in the direction of grants or dgies, but by trying to bring about a better economic position.'
BRITISH FINANCE.
ROAD FUND. "RAID": A PROTEST.
London, March 10. The long threatened trouser dress has arrived, says the "Week- ly Despatch."
U.S.A. PRESIDENCY,
MR. HOOVER'S REPUBLICAN
WATER SUPPLY.
Level and Storage of water in Re- servoirs on April 1, 1928;~~ CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL.
1027 1928 -10' 1"B 15' 10"B "B 910R 22 "B 82 3B 43' 1"B
...13 0B 21 99 (Note: B. donotes "Below Overflow": A. denotes "Above Overflow."]
Storage in milllers and Decimals of gallons.
NOMINATION,
exorbitant Tylan Byewash ...23' '8′′B 22 London, March 6, In the House of Lords to-day
Washington, March 9.
to be raised by the insurance of salaries, and the best suite of Tytam Intermediate 22" 0" 22"
Tytam Tuk Earl Beauchamp moved a resolu- The Spring shows exhibit many A bitter pre-convention strug land bonds. He suggested that all rooms in the best hotels, not only Wong Noi Chung..16 0B 22 "B tion protesting against Mr. Win. models for morning and evening gle, which will probably carry the partners to British migration for themselves, but for their Pokfulum ston Churchill raiding the road wear, One of the most striking over to the convention itself gurantee the bond interest on an mothers, who generally accom- fund to the extent of $26,400,000 of the latter is a flowing skirt, seems assured as a result of Mr. equitable basis for 20 years. He panied them.
The company charged Williams in two years, resulting in the which, when the wearer moves, H. C. Hoover's entry. No doubt, advocated that the British Gov- postponement or cancellation of suddenly opens from waist to appears to remain that there is ernment should inaugurate pre- with extravagance, and its only. road improvements throughout hem, revealing full trousers of an understanding between the liminary training at home, thus defence seemed to be that he re- Tytam the countryside. The motor silver tissue. Other models are forces of Messrs. Lowden, Willis, eliminating misfits, and also the fused to obey the orders of a Tylam Byewash vehicles licensed in Britain num-like sheaths, the short breeches Watson,, and Curtis, by which transfer of part of the dole sys- committee that had been estab-Tytum Intermediate bered, 1,729,000, equal to one in ending in transparent draperies their strength will be pooled in tem funds as bonuses to induce dished to run the company.
farmers to train prospective
Pokfulum The hearing was adjourned. every 26 people, compared with of uneven length to the kuce, or order to prevent Mr. Hoover front
He migrators.
declared: "I one in six in the United States buckled knee-breeches, over which obtaining delegates from Ohio, and 1 in 11 in Canada. Mr. Chur- are short skirts, slit in front. Indiana, and other States. Every want to see undesirable races ab. CAPTAIN'S DILEMMA. The Rev. Cahan, who was Bri-chill's raid had damped municipal Some models are without skirts, effort is being made to give Mr. solutely barred, let the price be
what it may." tish chaplain in Brussels during road schemes and had checked the the trousers reaching to the Hoover's aspiration a sufficiently The materials used in-serious setback early in the cam- the war, and was the last English-expenditure of at least £13,000,- ankles.
clude lame and chiffon, and the sign by combining all his oppon- MR. AMERY'S TOUR. colours include grey and biscuit, ents against him. Smockings, tucks, frills and lace are freely introduced.
THE FILM "DAWN." CHAPLAIN'S PROTEST AGAINST
EXHIBITION.
London, March 5.
TURKISH FINANCE.
FORMER SULTANS' STORE-
HOUSE OF JEWELS.
FILM BANNED 'AT WESTMINSTER.
London. March 6.
APPEAL REJECTED BY UNITED STATES.
Tytam Tok ... Wong Ne! Chung
Total
1327 204.30
1928
269.92
1.37
1.07
93.20
91,40
751,74
578,76
13.72
8.09
27.24
21.15
1,191.66 064.98
Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in millions and de- cimals of gallons during the month of March.
1927 1028 Consumption....... 216.75 218,57 Estimated population 410,200 420,620. Consumption per head
17.0 10.7 per day Intermittent Supply in all Rider of Garden.
KOWLOON WATER WORKS LEVEL
to see Nurse Cavell alive, 000 in wages alone for road work. man
The first Commissioner of
Vancouver, March 10. has made a statement strongly opposing the public exhibition of Works (Viscount Peel) in reply,
Captain Robert Adamson (76), objected to the term "raid," which
THE BRAVE.
master mariner since 1879, is a the film "Dawn."
guest at the Canadian immigra- "It would be most undesirable, suggested something iniquitous inasmuch as it would re-awaken A pledge could never be given
BRITISH RESPECT · GERMAN
tion building, pending the result Main Districts west
rond during March, 1927, and war memories, even if it were that the proceeds of a particular
DEAD...
The Marquess of Lincolnshire, of his appeal to Washington Full Supply in all rider main districts accurate, and apparently it is tax would be permanently devoted
Lord Great Chamberlain of Eng- against his rejection by the Unit- cast of Garden-road during March; not," he said. "Nurse Cavell did to a particular purpose. Without
Berlin, March 4. land, has refused permission toed States immigration author- 1927.
He arrived by the Intermittent supply in all Rider not faint and no soldier refused the road fund money Mr. Chur-
A deep impression was caused exhibit within the palace at West-ities. to fire. She was not shot by archill would have been forced in
• London, March 9. by the British Army of Occupa-minster a film depicting incidents "Aorangi" from Australia, with Main Districts during March, 1928, officer. The execution was car- 1926 to increase the income tax
The Constantinople correspon- tion's obedience to the official of the tour of the Dominions made £300 in his pocket, on a visit to ried out in the usual way, none by threepence, just when trade of the firers knowing which rifles was staggering from the results dent of "The Times" states that order for the observing of one by the Secretary of State for the his, four daughters, at Portland, The Oregon. He was equipped with with blanks and of the general strike. That would the Turkish Government is credit- minute's silence throughout the Dominions (Mr. Amery).
that it British and American passports, were loaded
have been more damaging from ed with the intention of founding Rhineland in memory of German ground of refusal was which with real cartridges.
All would establish a precedent if a but had no immigration visa. The Kowloon Reservoir 17 9 11 38 "I regard the hour which the viewpoint of the unemployed a national bank. It is announced soldiers slain in the war.
Road that foreign experts valued the motor engines were stopped and member of the House of Commons authorities say he had relinquish-Shek Lai Pul Roser- night before her execution as the improvements had not been stop-treasures and jewels belonging to every member of the force stood was allowed to show a travel film fed' his former United States eit Reception Reservoir 24"B 0' 11"B spent with Nurse Cavell on the than the course adopted.
zenship; and had he not appealed he would have been deported to most sacred in my life and the ped. On the contrary the expen- 30 former Sultans of the House at attention wherever he happen- to fellow members. subject, emphatically, is not one diture then was increasing at the of Osman with a view to their cd to be.
Australia on the "Aorangi." £1,000,000 yearly. employment as that should be reproduced on the rate of over films. Nurse Cavell was a brave Britain's roads were probably the and noble woman, who deemed it best in the world. her duty to do as she did; but she was perfectly aware that she was acting contrary to the laws of war, and war running the gravest risks."
film,
Promoter Deles Censors,
London, March 5. The promoter of the "Dawn" (Mr. Wilcox), announces that, despite the censors' ban, the film will be shown in kinema Com- theatres all over Britain.
AUSTRALIAN EMBARGO.
Canberra, March 7.
Earl Beauchamp withdrew the resolution.
•
'BUS-TOP FRIENDS.
TRAVELLING IN NIGERIA ROAD RAIL.
་
I
#
guarantee
against foreign money advances. ROYALTY AND CASH. The Imperial, treasure is stated to
be
SOLD,
worth £10,000,000. The ERMAN PRINCE'S ESTATES jewelled peacock throne of Shah Ismail of Persia is worth £2,000,- 000 alone. One of the chief aims of the bank is the stabilisation of the Turkish currency.
CANADIAN TRADE.
SUPPORT FOR NEW TREATY.
Berlin, March 5.
FATE OF BIRTLES.
SOME ANXIETY IN LONDON.
tralla to organise a search.
BIG FIGURES.
SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN AND ADVERTISING.
voir
*1927 1928
21' 5" 2' 0"B
Storage of millions and decimals of gallons.
1027 1028 Kowloon Reservoir. 193.39 245.40 Shek Lai Pui Resorvair 28.80 108.00 Reception Reservoir .. 27.03 30.78
Total
249.02 384.13 Consumption of water in Kowloon in millions and decimals of gallons during the month of March..
1927 1028 91.45 77,45 Consumption Estimated population 150,400 184,440 Consumption per head 15.0 17.0
per day Full Supply in all districts, during. March 1927 and 1928.
WHERE TO FIND SHIPS IN HONG KONG HARBOUR CHART OF THE PRINCIPAL MOORING BUOYS.
173 OIL COY
WHA
KWONG HIP lung
SUP AND WORKS
COSMOPOLITAN
DOCK
London, March 10. Some anxiety is felt in London The "Montag Morgan" an- for the safety of Mr. Francis
New York, March 7. The American Newspapers and nounces that the ex-Crown Prince Birtles, the motorist, who is on of Germany has sold a number his way to Australia. There has Publishers' Association's Adver- testates and will retain only been little news. since he left tising Bureau states that the na-
advertisers The Calcutta on January 16, and it is tional 10,000 acres for hunting.
expended object of the sales was to obtain feared he has met with difficulties G$225,000,000 in newspaper ad-
If nothing is vertising in 1927. The groups are The Government Analyst's reports 5,000,000 marks for investment in the jungle. London, March 10.
in industrial enterprises. The heard from Calcutta within a headed by the automobile indus-show that the quality of the water is
antisfactory, "The problem of 'road versus
Vancouver, March 9. sales were necessary owing to the week it is proposed to ask Aus- try, with 57 companies spending Total rainfall to March 31, 1927, mittees appointed by three large rail transport is acute in Englanti,
Sharp criticism of the policy of losses in working the property.
an aggregate of G$35,505,000. 8.20, March 31, 1928, 10.04 cities will inspect the film in but equally so in Nigeria, where order to ascertain its fitness for the motor bus and motor lorry the Conservative members for public exhibition.
are popular among the natives," Vancouver in the Canadian House - stated the House of Commons de of Commons with regard to the legation to Nigeria when report- Australian trade. treaty was DEADLY WEAPONS.ing to the Empire Parliamentary voiced by Mr. J. A. Campbell at a
Association.
meeting of the Progressive Liber- "The railways are. English-al Association to-day. He said owned, but the lorries are the agreement had reacted more African-owned and driven, and to the benefit of British Columbia The refusal of the authorities also, judging by appearances, than to other provinces and it African mended. Many such would have been far more to the to allow certain dangerous wen- pons to come into the Common-lorries are successfully competing credit of Brigadier-General J. A. wealth was mentioned by the with the railways. The delega-Clarke and those associated with Minister for Markets (Mr. Pater- tien patronised a 'bus in a re-him to have assisted the passage Hon) on behalf of the Minister mote village on the plateau. The of a modified Bill than to oppose
a lit. for Trade and Customs (Mr. other passengers included Pratten) in reply to a question pagan lady, attired in a small fan asked in the House of Represen-of leaves, who was bringing home tatives to-day by Mr. West (Lab,her shopping. A less fully dress- ed pagan gentleman returning N.S.W.)
The Minister said that two from the hunt politely arranged weapons that were recently refus- his poisoned arrows and spears to ed admittance and sent back to avoid inconveniencing his fellow the country of origin were a passengers." pocket knife attached to a barrel and constructed to throw chloro- form and temporarily disable the person aimed at, and a powerful air pistol which threw leaden slugs. These, the New South Wales police considered, were. very dangerous weapons.
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ALLEGED SWINDLE:
HONOLULU CASE: 11 PERSONS IMPLICATED. .
SPEED RECORD.
CAPT. CAMPBELL STILL
· UNSATISFIED.
London, March 10. Captain Malcolm Campbell, the British motorist, on his return from America, where he broke the world's motoring speed record, gave the opinion that his speed record of 206, miles an hour could be beaten easily, under favour- able conditions.
AFGHANISTAN.
PROPOSED FAR-REACHING
REFORMS.
Calcutta, March 7. Far-reaching reforms .in Afghanistan will begin in the Afghan New Year on March 21. They include the establishment of the French metric system to re- place the ancient system, and the Inauguration of a college on French lines and staffed with French professora...
MUSSOLINI AGAIN. GERMAN FILM BARRED BY THE DUCE.
Berlin, March 5 Signor Mussolini has prohibited throughout Italy the exhibition of ing attempting to beat it in Eng-the German film "Metropolis," land.
He added that he was consider
PROHIBITED
ANG HARAGA
0.
5TD.
Honolulu, March 5. Eleven persons, including three women, have been indicted by a Territorial Grand Jury on charges
mammoth display of mechanics linking them with a conspiracy to The Mayor of Southampton, purporting to forecast how the swindle Thomas Needham, an who welcomed him, said: "I think machine era will destroy man English visitor of 140.000 dollars you have done uite enough kind's happiness,
(1-423.000) ST 8 Take race třácă tuby
ting game.
ded assent.
praised the film.
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