A new market developing "for New. South Wales ice-growers in Canada, where Australian rice is being given a 25 er cent. preference over Asiatic Rice. "Large. shipments are now soing to Cancouver.
Exci scenes were witnessed in the. Spanish Cortes "on Dee. 3 when a Deputy" and the "Under-Secretary for the Interior came to blows after a heated altercation, 'The " Under. Secretary had. the worst'
ctcounter and retired With his nose bleeding, but he has Presented his opponent with Challenge to a duel.
President Cosgrave on Dee. 7 gave imistie review of Ireland's celebrations. in honour birth of the I He said Ireland was now com: paratively. id prosperous whereas ten years ago the whole Framework of the Government had collapsed and complete chaos threatened the country.
Dr. Antanas Smetona, the leader of the Nationalist Union Party, fon Dec. 11 was re-elected as Presi: dent of Lithuania, The United States Government on Dec. 13 formally relinquished the technical right to collect G.$125,- 90,000 aueto, her in foreign wae lehis on Tuesday. passed a resolu The oruvian Congress have the cxPresident Leguia before tending to bri
by accusing his collaborators treason, Leguia was. ime prisoned in 1980, but. was confined in a hospital where he is at present convalescing.
A resolution requesting a sweep: ing investigation of international Banking operations conducted in the United States and linking them definitely with the Hoover war debts and reparations moratorium was introduced into the United States Senate en Dee, 9 by Senator Hiram. Johnson, Republican of California, The fact that 33,000,000. sovereigns wore melted down by the Bank of England in order that they might fo to the Bank of France. in the form of bars of gold is revealed in the annual report of the Royal Mint which was issued on Dec. 8. This was the first time in history that sovereigns were re-converted into bar gold, The French Ministry of the Navy en Dec, 8—announced that' the crack cruiser Pri mauguat has been ordered _to proceed to China waters from Tou-Jon to replace the obsolete French cruiser, the Waldeck Rousseau whic!
now station in Ct Two) river gunboats shortly are proceeding to China to reinforce the five warships of this type now main. tained in Chinese waters by France, museum is to be erected ite of the house in which famous poet Alexander Pushkin lived and died, and whic was destroyed by a conflagration shortly before. the war, museum will contain exhibits reflecting soci during the poet' early editions of all his works, [special department will be devoted to depicting modern conditions and development in the Pushkin district, When the tiny Puss Moth ma-[chine in which Captain Bert Hinkler Jerossed' the South Atlantic alone touched the ground at Hanworth aerodrome on Dec. 7 ho was carried shoulder-high toa raised platform where Mrs, Hinkler embraced hin. One of the first to congratulate im was Sir Arthur Brown, who with the late Sir John Alcock was the first to fly across the Atlantic fewelve years ago. Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Secretary of State, for! Air, welcomed the aviator officially ion behalf of the Government.
'The greatest grass and bush fires on the western Australian plains the past ten years are. swoops ing northwards en a front 1 miles in length. In an area between Bourke, (Cobar and Wileannia many' large stations have been completely destroyed. All the men in the affected di tricts are being organised to fight the fires, which are travelling the rate of 40 miles a day before southerly and westerly winds, Prince Nicholas of Rumania is reported to be contemplating " fol" lowing the example of his brother, King Carol, in renouncing all his rights member of the Royal House rather than submit to the dissolution of his morganatic marriage to Madame Sayennu, the Peek orcad wife of 8 lawyer, said that' the Public Proscus for at Bucharest is moving to have the case dealt with by the Districh Court at Ito 1
Reports are current that Britons n Europe are taking up permanent domicile abroad as they are afraid to return to England owing to rum foured high prices as a result of the depreciation in sterling. These ports. are received in London with {ncredulity. The currency fluctuations have, in point of fact, had a paras ddoxical. effect in the' comparative immobility of "commodity prices which are either unchanged or falling slightly. cee By dashing into blazing stables the 70-year-old Dowager Lady Dun-leith saved the life of her favourite Pony when a fire broke out on Dec, 10 "at the family' residence ab Ballywater Park, County Down, Treland, She was assisted in her work by the cook and they, rescued three other ponies ax well. In the face fof, the flames her son, Lord Dun-ith, secured a ladder and used the household sre-extinguisher until Ino. was compelled by the overpowered ing smoke to escape, Tt has been decided that 2 portion of the Atlantic fleet comprising the battle cruisers, Hood and Repulse, land the second cruiser' squadron, H. M.S. Dorsetshire, Norfolk, Exeter and York, shall visit British [West Indian ports during" the coming spring. "The ships will be detached from the flag of the Commander-in-Chief off the North Coast fof Spain on January 8 or 9. After exercises have been carried out, the Commander-in-Chief in Lil. 3f. 8. Nelson, and the remainder of" the Atlantic fect will use Gibraltar as their main base until the return of the ships to their home ports in March.
Numerous tusks of pre-historic elephants and the skeleton of a giant giraffe have been discovered in. the Kulundski Steppe in Western Siberia in the course of excavations under the auspices of the Academy, Science. According to the announcement of that _institution, the discovery is of tremendous scientific" importance inasmuch as it had always been assumed that the Kulundski Steppe between Palodar, Barnaul and Semipalatina had formed the bottom lof the sea which in. pre-historic imes had extended into Western Siberia. The discovery of samples of a prehistoric fauna, it issd contradicts this thes establishes beyond. doubt that the Kulundski Steppe. bad been part tha continent "for.a. longer' period than had been assumed, By a vote of 368 to none the Constitutent' Assembly on December 19 approved the new. Consitution for the Second Spanish Republic, While there were' no, votes cash against the Constitution under hich Spain ig hoping to shape her Jdcstiny there were 08 members of the Constituent Assembly absent When the constitution was adopted. Don' Niceto Aleala. Zamoray Tor= res, a Right Wing Republican who one of the most independent figures in Spanish politics, on Dees 10 was crested to be the fist Presto lent.
Recent reports that Marshal Pile suds was aiming at the establish= ment of a monarchy in Poland were igoronsly denied on Dee, 8 by the semi-official "Gazeta Polska." The Journal declares that Marshal Pite Sudsk himself harbours no moners hist sentiments whatever and that, contrary to rumours cizeulate me' "abroad, he no ate ition of rounding a dynasty.'
jazeta Polska" ads, however that until recently' there was section of Pol politicians who favoured the establishment of kingdom. "Pho conservative. deputy Stronski and. a. number of others are mentioned by name in this con ection, and it is furthermore. erred," that. former Polish govern tents' have sympathised with thole Ideas. "This school of thought is Tow, however, entively.liqul the organ concludes, "esl
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