MISGELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1920, Page 3

MISGELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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PRESS DELEGATES. 1 Received this day'at 0.20 a.m.) OTTAWA, August 2. Overseas press delegates gave a dinner on Sunday at Quebec in honour of Canadian newspaper men, Cappvin. White, and the 9#ficf,ra pf the Victorian. KING’S YACHT. (Received this day at 9,a0 a.m.) LONDON, August 2. The King’s yacht Britannia won the seventy foot Class at Cowes Regatta. NEW CRIMES BILL. LONDON, August 2. A new bill to put down crime in Ireland will he introduced in the Commons to-day.• PRINCESSES ESCAPE-. '. LpNRON, August 2. Princesses j\|(ify a !(d Aland weye in a motor accident on Finchley road, but were unhurt, OLYMPIA SHOOTING. ANTWERP, August 2. In the rille shooting competition at the Olympic games, United /States, South Africa and Sweden tied in the six hundred metres match. CRICTvEER ACCEPTS. 'Received this dav at 9.20 a.m.> LONDON, August' 2. Rhodes lias accepted for the Australian tour,

GENERAL BOOTH HOME. (Received This Dav at 12.25 p.m.)

LONDON, Aug 2

General Booth, the Salvationist leader, has returned from Australia. He declares he. found a growing enthuiasm for work, unite distinct jroni the ambition to tie well paid fop work done. Tie fp;,mil tin; Australian' Labour Party largely composed of men who were of a religious moral character who looked with contempt on the Bolshevik’s cackle.

ENGINE DRIVERS DEMAND

(Received tnis dav at 1.30 pip ) CAPETOWN. Aug 2

The Engine Drivers' Association of Johannesburg started a week-end striko to enforce a demand for fortyeight hour week and Sundays vest. Even pumping operations in most mines will be suspended until the demands are conceded.

INDIAN AGITATION. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) DELHI, 4ug 2. A huge hartal was inaugurated through India yesterday as a protest figninst the Turkish peace terms. Disorders were anticipated, and other military precautions taken, but an exceptionally heavy monsoonal downpour caused the hartal to prove something of a fiasco. Big processions took pjacc in some centres, and fierce resolutions were carried, but the great mass of the people were npathic.