MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1920, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyrigut.) MAItQUIS OF QUEENSBEItRY LONDON, August 2. Tli 0 newspapers publish picturesque stories that tlio Marquis of Queensberry died of pneumonia at Johannesburg. His widow, formerly Mrs Morgan still carries on a fish and poultry shop at Cardiff, and is extremely wealthy. The new Marquis married a Gaiety actress in 1917. Both are travelling in South America.

INDIAN LEADER DEAD. DELHI, Aug 2. 'The Extremist Leader, Milali, died from pneumonia at Bombay, which was followed by great demonstrations by the natives who gathered outside the hotel where lie died to view the body of their leader, which was placed in a sitting position on the verandah. The remains were subsequently burned on the seashore, amid scenes of much solemnity.

OBITUARY. LONDON, July 30. Th e death is announced of ViceAdmiral Sir Trevylyan Napier, Com-mander-in-Chief of the North American Station, from enteric, at Hamilton. Bermuda. AMERICA CUP. OTTAWA, Aug 2. Mr A. C. Ross, ex-member of the Canadian Parliament for Sydney, Nova Scotia, lias sent a challenge to the New York Yacht Club for the America Cup in 1922, on behalf of the Nova Scotia Yacht Club, the boat to he designed by English, built in Canada, and manned by Nova Scotia fishermen. Commodore Jarvis, of Toronto, is willing to be skipper. . The challenger will be christened Maple Leaf, and will cost a million dollars. raised by. public subscription. DURING THE WAR, (Received this day at 9.30 a.in.) PARIS, August 3.

The “Matin” publishes a conversation between a high French, personage and the King of Spain in which the latter in March 1917, said the -German intention early in 1917 was to march upon Petrograd, and Odessa and then with Greece’s aid, smash General Sarrail ’s array at Salonika, after which Austria would fall upon Italy. Germany’s next move was to violate Swiss neutrality and make a dash on Lyons. The King predicted the defeat of the Central Powers, though he did not believe they would be definitely crushed. He criticised the want of forethought and egotism of the British Government, which at the time had not placed three million men in the field. Italy also had not inflicted a blow commensurate with her strength. The French Government and Lloyd George were notified of the conversation.