MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[“rEutkr’s” telegram.] A BOMB OUTRAGE. (Received this day at 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 12. A bomb wrecked two coaches of the Serbian Prince Regent’s train in Sarajevo. BOMB ATTEMPT FAILS. BRUSSELS, October 11. Tire Montenegrin press bureau announces an attempt was made to assassinate Prince Alexander, the Serbian Regent at Serajevo. A bomb was thrown under his train, but the Prince was not injured. i Sill THOMAS MACKENZIE. NEAV YORK, Oct. 11. Sir Thomas Mackenzie added that he found feeling in United States towards Britain far more 1 cordial than he anticipated. He strongly supported Lord Desborough’s and Hobson’s proposal for the establishment of an International Chamber of Commerce for the exchange and distribution of statistics and information concerning products and commerce. Such a Chamber would fill a long standing need. Mackenzie leaves for New Zealand on Wednesday. A PROBABLE BISHOP. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 12. Rev. Peter Green Canon, Presidentiary of Manchester, is mentioned as the possible Archbishop of Melbourne. BELGIUM’S GRATITUDE. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 12. Princess Napoleon of Belgium in the presence of a brilliant assemblage, including several Royal personages, unveiled the memorial, on Victoria Embankment, expressive of Belgium’s gratitude for British hospitality to war refugees. De la Croix, the Belgium Premier, in presenting the memorial, declared the friendship between Belgium and Britain established on the battlefield, must continue on the paths of peace. Lord Curzon, in accepting the memorial congratulated Belgium on her speedy recovery from the ravages of war. THE PACIFIC CABLE. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 12. The Australian Press learns that the matter of the duplication of the Pacific cable rests with the British and Dominion Governments, which have been considering the matter for so many months. A high authority in London states manufacturers are loaded with orders for stock cable, which will keep them busy for a long period. It is admitted that owing to congestion, a duplication is most necessary. SOCIALIST CONFERENCE. (Receved this day at 11.30 a.m.) ROME, Oct. 12. The Socialists Congress at Reggio recommends the adhesion to the third International, with the exclusion of anarchists, syndicalists, and a dictatorship over proletariat, not necessarily on Russian lines, .violence onljy to be used as a last resolve, but there is to bo .no collaboration with Buorgeoise.