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Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1920, Page 2

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By Electric Telegraph—Copyright; ARCHBISHOP of WALES. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, February 9. A joint session of the Houses of Convocation on Tuesday decided to create four Welsh diocese in a new' ecclesiastical province! It is expected the Bishop of St Asaph's will be appointed the first Archbishop of Wales.'

A BREST INCIDENT. PARIS, Feb. 9. A Brest message' states that thorp i were several hours of disorder, with serious incidents when ex-soldiers, in r eluding a blind, decorated poilu,- dor ping the Socialist Mayor’s prohibition forced a cqrdon of police and piarched in procession to pay homage at a jijopur incut. Workers rival socialist process, sion engaged in a free light, the respoetive crowds singing the Marsellaise and the International.

AGREEMENT ENDORSED. DUNEDIN, This Day Dunedin Seamen’s Union endorsed the agreement come to at the Wellington conference last week. I A LIBEL CASE. 1 WELLINGTON, This Day. ! Angus John McCurdy and Flora McCurdy were proceeded against by Robert Semple on charges' that they published in the “ Hutt Vally Independent ” an untrue statement concerning Semple, calculated to influence the votes of electors, as follows: “ I am a German, and proud of it.” Semple at Auckland during the 1914. strike, hut at Upper Hutt the other night ho posed as an Australian, but he is not the only “ Red Fed.” Australian with Hun blood in his veins. The case was adjourned. ' ;