MISCELLANEONS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1921, Page 3

MISCELLANEONS ITEMS.

tI'STIIALIAS AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOR VTION. SIIII’BUILDING Sl.l'Ml’. ! (Recoin'd 'this Day at !.•» p.m.) , LONDON, Oct. 12. lion Lloyd George says the legister discloses a heavy slump in the world s shipbuilding continues. Three and a quarter million tons of merchant shipping was being constructed in the United Kingdom at the end ot September. a reduction of one million compared with the previous quarter, bui the delayed and suspended tonluce amounts to LI millions, leaving one million actually being constructed. The total tonnage of building abroad is -Ji million, but nearly half a million of tlint in suspended tonnage. countries most MTeeted by suspensions are Italy and United Slates. ,

WOMAN’S SFCHI'.T HOARD. I’AUIS, Aug.; 2-. Few Frenchwomen can have practised the traditional national habit of hoarding money in a woollen stocking so thoroughly as an old woman of St Ktienne in whose house a chimney was repaired during her absence and without her knowledge. She was greatly alarmed on hearing that stonemasons had been employed' on the chimney and told her son that she had long hoarded money there. Search revealed no trace of the hoard and the police were called in, the woman estimating her loss at £3OO in actual cofei.

Some of the workmen were found m possession of gold pieces and the foreman was arrested, being found in possession'of the remainder of the £3OO in gold and silver and also of nearly Cf 000 in banknotes. This also was claimed as part of the hidden treasure hv the woman, and she admitted she had nn idea of exactly how much she had concealed there, but that for years she had been putting notes and money into the hole in the wall.

C 1.0(10.COO JEWEL BOBIIEIIV | VIENNA. August 22. | The mystery shrrounding the robbery from the Imperial Art Museum hero j last year, when jewelled relies worth j more'than £1.000.000 were stolen, has. it is stated been partly (leafed up by a Vienna dancing girl. I She told tile police that soon after the robbery a young student, with a , bandaged arm gave her a diamond which, lie said, had been given him , by a mysterious Russian. The diamond • was recognised as one of those stolen 1 from the museum where it had revised in the hilt of a golden sword b' , longing to the Emperor Francis Jo- j soph. Following up this clue, the police (Its- ' covered that the student's father had j smuggled the relics into Holland, where ■ it is stated, they had been sold. M arrunts for the errest of father and son. wdio are stated to he in Holland, have ; been issued. The stolen relics include a unique ; Kith century show case valued before j the war at Cot).000; gold swords stud-; ded with diamonds, miniatures of the Empress Mario Tlierese. cameos, statu*-' cites, and a historical field marshal’s baton which belonged to the Emperor • Francis T. The thieves had hidden in | the museum the night before the rob- j borv and had broken one of the will- ; dows to escape. One of the thieves j must have cut himself as a trail of i blood was found leading from tile bro- j ken window to the room from which i the relics were stolen. I