MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1917, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

A ROYAL DIVORCE. ROME, Oct. 22. Prince Minko, of Montenegro, has divorced Princess Natalie, of Serbia., on the groi nds of ineoinnatability of character. - •"King Nicholas cares f° r the cfiildron.

NINE D.C.M.’s

I AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE. ASSOCIATION

&■ REUTER.]

(Received this day at 1.20 a.m.,) LONDON, Oct. 22. Distinguished Conduct MVdals have oeen awarded nine New Zealanders.

NURSES COLLEGE. LONDON, October .21

The Committee mf at to British. Women’s Hospital Association are appealing to tho Empire to found, for the benefit of nurses whose health is impaired through war work, and also to endow a college of nursery*, which will stand in the same relation to tho nursing profession as colleges for physicians and surgeons to medicine and surgery.

A MUNITION EXPLOSION.

(Router’s Telegram.)

(Received This Dav at 12.2'v ■>.• BERNE. October 22

The interpellation in the Reichstvu i revealed that the great explosion i n Augußt in t’h.e. munition works at Steinfield was caused by Spontaneous combustion in captured enemy ammunition. There was immense damage. Twenty persons were killed and 360 injured.

GREEK INTENTIONS. ATHENS, October 22

The Chamber voted in favour of the prosecution of members of- the Skou loudis -Cabinet, including the former Premier, M. Oouarnis.

THE KAISER’S ASSURANCE. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 22

Count Reventlow, in an article in the “Tageltung says the Kaiser visited Constantinople to assure the Government that Germany would guarantee the integrity of the Turkish Empire, including Egypt.