MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1919, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

■ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN

NEW YORK, November 14

The National ‘Women's Conference at St. Louis has adopted a resolution demanding laws legitimatising children born but of wedlock, and also the child’s registration in its fathers pime and its right to the property of noth parents.

U.S. COAj/ STRIKE. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. The coal miners have accepted a Government proposal to negotiate for new wage contracts.

LARKIN ARRESTED

NEW YORK, Nov. 15,

Jim Larkin, the Irish Labour Leader has been arrested. He was advocating criminal anarchy. He is being held for an investigation of his speeches by a grand jury.

OFFER TO RAILWAYMEN. . LONDON,' Nov. 16

The Government has offered the railwayman equal representation with the companies’ general managers on a board to be set up and invested with plenary powers to control the railways' and to settle the conditions of the service and wages.

MORE SEAMENS TROUBLE. (Received This Day at 3 a.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. 18.

A stop work meeting of seamen decided to give coastal owners twentyfour hours’ notice of intention to strike, because tiie owners refused to come into line with the recent inter-State agreement.

LONDON, November 15. Obituary—Herbert Jarman, the ac-

, ARRESTED FOR /TREASON. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, November 15. Deputy Paul 'Meunier was arrestsd when leaving an election meeting, on a charge of treasonable negotiations with -the enemy. ■ • : 7 : , The latest acount states that while the police wero searching Meunier’s house, Meunier locked two inspectors in i room and fled. The inspectors quickly got out and followed Meunier’s tracks in the snow for nearly avp, miles and when approaching Meunier, they find revolvers and the deputy lay down and surrendered. PARIS, November 15. When Meunier was arrested he made a- dash for liberty and scrambled aver a j wall, but wals recaptured. Madame Deravase who is alleged to have accompanied Meunier to Switzerland wsalso arrested. " THE PRINCE OF WALES, WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. The Prince of Wales visited White I House and conversed with President) and Mrs Wilson. He brought to the President many personal messages from the Royal family. The President sat propped up in bed. The Prince had tea with Mrs Wilson aqd the President’s two daughters. The Prince earlier in the afternoon placed a wreath on Washington’s tomb, at Mount Vernon,' Virginia. Ho alsjo decorated more than a hundred soldiers, officers and nurses' at the British Embassay and held a reception in the evening. The Prince later attended a dance giyen by Mr Gillejbe, speaker, of the House of Representatives. Queen Alexandra stent a message to President Wilson expressing the hope that he was feeling stronger after liis wonderful work for the benefit of the whole world. President Wilson replied, and said his health was steadily improving. ’ Ho added that the welcome extended to the. Prince olf Wales was from the • hearts of the Americans. A BIG BLAZE. NEW YORK, Nov. 14. New York’s Mayor had a narrow escape from death on serious injury at a great conflagration which destroyed one lof the plantsi of the Standard Oil Company at Greenpoint, a section of the city across the East River. Mr Hylan, with several high police and fire officials, was watching the sea of flames which was swirling over the 30 acres of storage yards and adjacent thoroughfares when a naphtha tank, which was not believed to-be in lmmediatp danger, exploded, raining fire an debris all over the party, and enveloping them in dense black smoke. They ran for tlieir lives, while a quick-witted fireman turned: his hose in. their,. Lion, so that all got away with nothing worso than a drenching. The plan contained. 1.00 tanks of kerosene and. naphtha. Spontaneous eombustmn on Thursday afternoon started a blaze that so far has caused 23 tanks to. blow up,.. filling the sky with flames apd smoke Several warehouses and factories near the plant were reduced to ruins and minifies were caused to a couple of hundred out of more than a firemen sent to the scene. It » n 0 thought that the sprc-ad pf tbe flagration has been checked. The dmn is estimated at more than £SOO,QOQ