BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

ICSTRALIAX AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. poplah cooxcilloks. -Received This Pay at 11.30 a.in.) LONDON, Sept. 13 An Extraordinary nu cling < >l Stepm*v Unroll •'ll Council adopted ;i resolulion demanding the release of l’oplar •Couueillnrs, failing which the Home Secretary he informed that Stepne.v (Council will refuse to eolleet rates. MAI) MULLAH DMAI). I .ON DON’, Sept. 13 There is iiultihiahle evidence that the Alail .Mullah is really dead at last. Word has been received that he died and was buried in Abyssinia in February, after wanderine alone, destitute, and starvin'!, deserted by the lew followers who stole his property. llis tomb was subsequently rifled. A LABOR MANIFESTO. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.in.) LONDON, Sept. It. Liverpool trade union leaders have issued a manifesto stilting that practically all unemployment committees are avowed revolutionaries, and are inciting the unemployed for tlicir ov.n ends. MYE ELECTION RESULT. LONDON, Sept 14. An election to replace., deceased m West Lewisham resulted;Sir Philip Dawson (Conservative) 11427. Windham (Anti-Waste) 8580. Rafferty (Liberal) 6211. MANSLAUGHTER CHAIUiK. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.in.) j NEW YORK, Sept. It. j The San Francisco Grand Jury indieted “Fatty” Arlmckle on a charge j of manslaughter. I ARBUCKLE AND LIQUOR LAW. NEW YOU K, Sept. 14 California being nominally dry, the Calit'orman Prohibition Director exon..ned All-tickle. with • view to securing information where -the liquor allegedly consumed at the party which ended in Rappe’s death, was obtained He spent an hour ill f utile questioning. The only reply that Arlmckle made, was that he never had any liquor. A SPANISH DISASTER. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) MADRID, Sept 14. Over sixty people returning from a fete at liuriisidet crowded into a boat intended for only twenty, which capsired and thirty-one were drowned, tile majority being women and children.