MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1919, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

f AUSTRALIAN & N. 7,. CABLE ASSOCIATION] EMPIRE PREFERENCE. •LONDON, May 22. Pirley, Canadian High Commissioner, in a speech at Dudley, welcomed the preference and hoped the Empire would become self-contained, and that the do. minions would claim a voice in foreign affairs.

CURRENCY COMMISSION. LONDON, May 22. Mr Montague in the Commons said the Government was appointing a Currency Commission to investigate the price of silver.

A D.C.M. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 24. Bprt Hinkler of Bundaberg of Queensland who enuisted in September 1914, in the naval air service and soon qualified as a pilot and saw much service on the Italian front, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and a Commission. He was recently demobilized but now intends to fly to Australia. Up hopes to do the journe in seventeen days.

ECLIPSE OF SUN QF THURSDAY. • NEW YORK, May 23. Professor David Todd, the astronomer, will observe the solar eclipse or Tliurs. day, May 29th, from a hydro-plane at a high elevation over the Atlantic Ocean. It is proposed to h av P the elevation of from ten to fifteen thousand feet. The hydro-pIaUP "-ill be transported aboard a steamer to a point in the Atlantic approximately five hundred miles south-west of Sierra Leone., where a flight will he made. The hydroplane will return to the, steamer’s deck when photographs have been taken and observations made. [The eclipse is not visible in New Zealand-]

GIRL THROWN IN MARNE. PARIS, March 24.

For fhe peculiarly atrocious murder of a young woman well-known in the Montparnasse district by. the. nickname of Cluchinctte, a man apd woman hayc been sentenced to death at the Seine Assizes, while a man and woman have liayo been given 20 years’ imprisonment. Chichinptte confided to her friend An.gpl? Dahezics that she had considerable, sayings, wheyeopp.n p.abezies plotted with a hand of Apacfi?.? to, rob and kill her. they drove her in a motorcar to a public 'ball at Cbarento.n, and during the evening d e Coyed her tp. the bank of the Marne- R°ve they Stabbed the unfortunate giri in the face and bound her with wire, and while she was sti.R living, threw lier body, weighted with a hand grenade, into tfio river. A storm, which was raging, smothered her. cries. The baud then returned to Pans and broke into her flat.

35 AFRICAN CONDITIONS. CAPETOWN, May 24

Xbp Unipp Government is preparing a pill designed to inept tl:e Bolshevik teutipupies being shown in sonic sections ' p.f the cpmimuiity. The measure gives po.wpr to the Government to PtttluWt W restrict publication of.niatter ip which any unlawful aiul violent pets avp suggested for the purpose of effecting p change in the present political, industrial or economical couditippsj py any matter inciting natives to hrpak existing labour contracts, or to tfisphjoy laws. The pi'll also provides for the registration of all aliens within or entering tlie Union. It prohibits membership of jtssoeuVtions advocating any unlawful acts.

DIAMOND CUTTING. CAPETOWN, May 24

A jlrnft has been published of a contract for a proposed diamondcutting industry scheme. It provides for the formation of a company, with a capital of two million sterling, which will erect a factory equipped with two thousand mills. The company is ,to train disabled soldiers. The Government will supply stones, taking 25 per cent of the whole diamond output. It is to pay the mining companies full current fates for the diamonds.