MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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ADULTERATED FOOD. U'RjBUTErV’ TELEGRAM.] (Received this dav at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 13. The report of the Ministry of Health contains the startling revelations that Pillornes egg custard powder, which analysts declare generally as egg powder is bnly coloured flavoured starch without a trace of any eggs. RENOWN HOMEWARD BOUND Received this day at 2.36 p.m.,) COLON, Sept. 13. The Renown arrived at Acapulco on Thursday morning, with the Prince of Wales well. The ship left the same evening for Panama for oiling. The weather is sultry. A stoker named Frederick Barnes died on board. He had a stroko'. He was buried the same evening at sea with most impressive funeral ceremony, the whole ship’s company attending. CHINESE MASSACRE. ’ PEKING, Sept. 13. The Catholic mission has received a report of the massacre of Chinese Christians at Wenyeung in the East river district. It appears that soldiers from Kwangri, armed with machine guns,' notwithstanding Canton orders to respect the sanctity of Christian Churches raided Weiyeung. They tied up a number of women, afterwards shooting them dead. They also dragged p Chinese Christian teacher from a church, and shot h’itn. They assaulted his placo and desecrated the church and drove the inhabitants from several villages and killed them. &