MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1921, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

lITSTRAMAN AND N.Z. CAIUjE ASSOCIATION, CAR RENTIER’S SHARE. LONDON, November 29. Although Lucas is reticent regarding the terms of tho fight the Pall Mall Gazette states Carpentier will recur nearlv twenty thousand as his share of the purse. 'A BANDIT’S ESCAPADE. PARIS, November 29. A bandit Pierre Rishoff. brutality attacked a woman with’a hammer in her apartments at Nice and then barricaded himself in the building and battled with the police for 24 hours. Ho killed a telegraph messenger and policeman with revolver shots. .The Fire Brigade tried to dislodge him with buses Fimillv the police hurled gas bombs into the building and the bandit surrendered.

IN THIBET. A WONDERFUL COUNTRY. LONDON. Nov. 29. Interviewed by tho “Daily Mail-” F. Thomas, chief Librabrian ol the India office, "ho ha Slot 111-lied Iroltl a hel day i„ llie mvsterioiis land beyond the Himalavas gives a fascinating aecimrn of life ... the li' tie frequented pnrt* ot Thibet where a woman promises, and have as ni'iiy as tni husbands if she marries one ten hrotberi. Beeicse she i- in love with him. the la" .•, ,-<i 11“ I - her to marry all. either at ll„. time. Of at intervals. Tn the t.esij families ca.-e is taken to sis- that ~11 brnftiers are not at home at the same 'time.. If one is at home. the Others all-lit themselves. The marceremunv is a curious one. and includes throwing an imitate n s«iod at i 1,,. I,ride to intimidate th- evil spirits. M.-m :• ih! w«mon \\<>rU ti tn<‘ field t'*>ti adiouvn everv hidf h"iir for harlev I'oer Tbomas visited I lnh"..inn numastories and says the literature represents the medieval literature of India. lull of ahtruse nietaphvsies.

■KITCHENER’S DEATH. STORY OF GERMAN SID'. LONDON. Nov 29. The British War office doilies that j, j,. id possession of evidence that the sinking of the cruiser Hampshire with Lord Kitchener was dm- to intornintion supplied to Germany by a spy named Elsie Roeeker. ft Slates that it had received reports that Elsie Roeeker has boasted in Berlin that she had received 10.000 marks Idem the German Government tor information as. to Lord Kitchener s impending departure for Russia, which in forma 1 ion sin- claims was sup! lied to her by a British officer, a friend of 100- husband's with "lioin sin- dined shortly before Lord Kitchener’s departure. Her story, sovs the War Office, ts wholly untrue, the facts being' that Elsie Roeeker was sentenced at Mnryle--1,0110 (111 May 3th. a month h for,. L»ml Kitchener’s departure. io two months’ im prisonmout for a, breach of the Aliens’ Restriction Act. and she was excelled from England on Julie 29th. Thus she was never at large ill England after May Sth.