MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

(By Electric 'telegraph—Copyright;

BESIEGING STRIKERS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.;

ROME, May 8,

Farm labourers striking in Verona province, besieged the estate of Baron Mantidibresoia, with a view to preventing the feeding of live stock. As the stock were dying of hunger, Carabinieri (soldiers) were disputated to. raise tho siege. When they arrived a conflict took place, two strikers being killed and ten seriously wounded. A similar siege took place on Mnrchosse Dicatossa.te estate at Villa Franca. Ten Carabiniere and twenty peasants were wounded.

FATAL CONFLICT AT FLUME. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) ROME, May 8

As a result of a dispute at Fiume between Eocco, commanding the Italian Carabinieri and d’Anniinzio, Roeco decided to quit the city. His force was attacked by d’Anniirtzio’s Bravos on the border, and a general conflict took place in which there were many casuualtios. Five Carabinieri and four Bravos are dead. >-

TEAXS OUTRAGE. BEUAMONT Texas), May 8. A Negro accused of threatening to kill a white mail was captured by a party of masked men and flogged to death. i OBITUARY. LONDON, May 8. Obituary.—Bishop of Durham. He was the original of Rev. Cuthbert Clare, in “TeBS of Durbervilles.” His Father was the original of Clare’s Father. ANCIENT HISTORY. (Received this day at 10.3-5 a.m.) LONDON , May 9. Frederick Chamberlain an American historian in a lecture at the Royal Institute after years of research of Elizabethan Biograph said Elizabeth was physically frail and anaemic without the instincts of a- sweetheart. He had invested twenty-six direct charges of immorality and not one would stand careful analysis.