MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

] L'KKDTEB’b” TELEOBAM.J SLEEPING SICKNESS. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Nov. 20. In connefction with South lAflrican ■ medical research Institute, Sir Spencer Lister has succeeded in 'curing two cases of sleeping sickness, the vic- > tints being soldiers who served in the 1 East African compaign. The treatment ■ is drastic and prolonged and consists ■ of sirum injections. ' LONDON, November 20. John Roscoe a prominent scientist, 1 has returned from a journey to little- ’ known portions of East Africa, made ■ at the instance of the Royal Society and ! Government. He travelled thousands of miles in the interior afoot, and on a bicycle, and discovered many curion* things, including fifty varieties off herbs, some of which apear to effect marvellous cures, native poisons, implements and instruments ante-dating two thousand 8.0. He met tribes living entirely on milk. They owned an enormous herd of cattle. Others existed wholly on bamboo tips and moles, while another tribe considered it good form to eat their dead relations. ROYAL HAPPENINGS. LONDON, November 20. A Lucerne correspondent writes that it is no exaggeration to say the future of the Balkans is being settled her* Besides Constantine and his satellites, a group of four young people arousirg attention is the Crown Prince of Ro.imania, Princesses Marie of Roumann and Helen of Greece and Prince Paul of Greece. There is little doubt the Crown Prince and Princess Helen are engaged. These probable marriages are likely to have a far-reaching effect. WRANGEL’S SMASH. I (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, November 20. An echo of the war—A Hull trawler . with a crew of nine struck a- mine in the North Sea and was lost with all Hands. i TYPHUS AND SMALLPOX. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 21. j It is officially announced from Con- ' stantinople that typhus and smallpox - hove broken out on the refugees’ ships from Crimea. i j EX-SERVICE MEN. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) , * LONDON, Nov. 21. | , Various organisations in the United Kingdom, representing three million exservice men, including the Officers’ Assoj ciation, are uniting shortly in one J non-politica.l basis. They intend, besides emphasising their own claims on I j the nation, as championed by General [ Haig and endorsed by the King, to perpetuate the memory of the fallen. | PORTUGAL’S NEW CABINET. LISBON, November 20. Castra, ex-Governor of Mozambique has formed a Cabinet. Colonel Bap- ’ tista, ex-commander of the Expeditionary force in France is Minister of War land Pereira, ex-Prime Minister, Foreign Affairs. The Socialists refuse to support the Cabinet,