MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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HEAVY DEATH ROLL. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) ROME, Sept. 8. Three hundred dead have been recovered in the earthquake area including fifty extricated from the ruins of Barga, where many are still buried. It is believed two hundred were buried at Fizzans. Many were buried alive at Carrara, owing to the quarries caving in, or were crushed to death by moving boulders. The dead in Carrara include one family consisting of a mother and seven children. Among the famous buildings destroyed is Vasari’s domed church of Madonna del Umilta, at Pistoja. Italian seizures extend. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) ROME, September 8. The. seizure of property* is extending to glass and chemical works.. Armed bauds of “peasants are seizing baronial estates in Palermo district. Miners threatened to occupy the mines in Tuscany, Ligura, Sardinia and Sicily. AN interview. (Received this day at 10.35 a.m.) • LONDON, September 8; Archbishop Redwood interviewed _by the Australian Press Association said the British Government had blundered in Dr Mannix’s affair. It was within liis own knowledge that Mapnix wrote from America before Hon. Lloyd George’s interdict announcing that. he meant to abstain from speech-making in England and Ireland. Asked to ex- ■ pjain Mannix’s persistent reticence, Archbishop Redwood replied that it not customary to particpate in public mutters -when (visiting ia diocese unless requested to do so by an ecclesiastical head, as happened during Dr Mannix’s visit to America. No British ecclesiastic had either made a request or given An indication to Mannix, hence his continued self-imp'os)ed silence. LINERS COLLIDE. (Received This Day at 10.35. a.m.) LONDON, September 9. Lloyd’s report Konigen Luise with six hundred and fifty passengers bound for Australia, collided with the Loughborough off Lisbon in a fog. Th.. Loughborough was beached at Belem two miles south-west of Lisbon. It is beliieveid the Konigen Uuise is not seriously damaged. The Onent Coy., have not received details of the aoci-

PICTURE STAR TAKES POISON PARIS, September 9.

The New York “Herald” states Olive Thomas, Jack Pickford’s wife is in i very grave condition in a hospital at NeuiHy, as a result of an overdose, of poison. Before arrival in France, Bickford’s numerous domestic difficulties were patched up and the couple were taking a second honeymoon in Paris It is believed Olive Thomas took poison to convince her husband of her affeetjon.