MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1921, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. NEGHOES MURDERED. NEW YORK, March 26. The agents of the Department of Justice at Atlanta, Georgia, are investigating an alleged peonage system in Jasper County, under which negroes are virtually enslaved. They discovered nine bodies of murdered negroes chained and weighted with rocks at the bottom of several rivers, and also shallow graves. John Williams, owner of a plantation on which six bodies were discovered, has been arrested and charged with murder. Three sons also have been apprehended. Clyde Manning, a negro employed by AA’illiams, confessed to complicity in the murders. DEIFICATION OF AMERICAN. LONDON, March 2(5. A movement is afoot to deify the spirit of the late Henry Howto, a prominent Californian, president of the San Francisco Ainerican-Jepanese Society, who was regarded as one of the leading friends of the Japanese. A special shrine will he dedicated at Tokio. This is the first instance of the apotheosisatioil of any foreigner by the Shintoists. AVAR GRAVES. LONDON, March 24. The Imperial War Graves Commission has reported that, of deaths numbering, approximately olio million, 617,006 bodies of British soldiers on various battlefields have been identified, and 3500 cemeteries have been prepared in Era mice and Belgium. CARDINAL GIBBONS. WASHINGTON, March 23. A Baltimore message announces the death of Cardinal Gibbons. [Cardinal Gibbons was born in Baltimore on July 23rd., 1834, and educated at St. Charles’s College, Maryland, and St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore. He was ordained priest in 1861, was appointed A'aicar Apostolic, North Carolina in 1868. Bishop- of Richmond in 1872. Archbishop of Baltimore in 1877. and was made a Cardinal in 188(5.] DEPORTED. SUVA, March 26 An Indian named Sadliu was deported from Suva to Sydney in the steamer Atua to-day. as an undesirable immigrant. Sadliu is tin' alleged loader of the Indian strike in Fiji.