MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright,

COMPARATIVE QUIET. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) TIENTSIN, July 2. Nothing beyond minor skirmishes has occurred, and Pekin is quiet. Cabinet issued peremptory orders to Chi Jui party against moving troops on Pekin. Diplmutists depreciato any alarm among foreign residents. The military have torn up the line near Techow on the Tientsin-Pukow rashvay.

MISSING WITNESS RETURNS LONDON, July 8. Sergeant Reilly, tho missing witness at Armagh, has been released.' He says he was hustled by a disguised man into a jnotor-cnr, blindfolded, and gagged, and taken to an unknown house, where he was kept until morning. A WELSH HOME. LONDON, July 8. The Cardiff City Council decided to negotiate for the purchase of Cardiff Castle, with a viow of offering it to the Prince of Wales as a Welsh home. [Cardiff Castle is very ancient. In tho year 1.108, Henry 1., having taken prisoner his brother, Robert Duke of Normandy, imprisoned-J.iim in Cardiff Castle for 26 years, until his death in 1134. In tho time of the Civil War, Charles I. went to Cardiff, and the castle was alternately occupied by Royalists and Parliamentarians. The castle which lias been in the possession of the Marquis of Bute for many generations, was once of enormous strength ; and so constructed to resist the incursions ot the Welsh,] j NEW COMPANIES, j ■. . I v (Reuter’s Telegram.) ! (Received this day at 1.5 p.in.J , LONDON, July 14 i During the first, six months of 1920 there were 6,41,0 new companies registered with a capital of £448,738,000 surpassing tlfe record for the- second , half of tho year 1919, when the regis- j trations numbered 5,414 with.a eapit- j al of £252,734,000. New textile com- , pnnies number 658 with a capital ot 116-. million. AALAND ISLANDS. LONDON, July 14 Tho Council of the League of Nations is referring to tile Finnish-Swed-ish dispute in regard to the sovereignty of Aaland Islands to a commission of three international jurists, two nominated by lie President of the League for advisory opinion. The’ Council lias appealed to the Swedish and Finnish Governments meanwhile to abstain from action likely to aggravate the situation. Swedish and Finnish representatives have promised such action will he avoided,

BOLSHEVIK ADVANCE. (Received tnis dnv in 1.30 p.m ) DELHI, July 12. Advices from Teheran state" the Bolsheviks have advanced from Meshedisar on the Caspian, to Sari. PALESTINE COMMISSION. (Received this dav at 1.30 p.m.) JERUSALEM, July 10. The Commissioner delivered the King’s message assemblage of notables of Palestine. It announced the creating of an Advisory Council, composed mainly of Govyrninpnf, officials, buf including ten non-official member? drawn from various sections of the people; also an amnesty for persons imprisoned during the recent disturbances, arid political prisoners. A message promised step? for tile peaceful, prosperous development, would be carried out, with impartiality ; respecting the rights of every race and crcfld. It also referred to the measures for the gradual establishment of a natjonal home for the Jewish peopie, which in nowise would affect civil or religious rights, or prosI perity of the general population,