MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

: AUSTRALIAN r AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION.i • I . ,I)EL|4I, Jan ,21. The auxiliary .police captured another rebel leader with six followers,, constituting a small band who were cutting telegraph wires and looting near ,.gffKunluymed ,Hagi and six others were qxecuteff at 4 j\lalaitpuv,am. The Council of State,(devoted practi,cajly the .whole day to a. discussion on ffje Government policy towards Extre.mists. On,the motion for a round table C-Wferqpqe, jthe mover stated .the situation to-day was as critical as at any time during .the British occupation, not .excepting ,the mutiny. The Home Se-; cretary made a strong speech pointing? out that iGandhi did not want a conference or. settlement except on his own ; impossible terms, and Government 1 ! could not accept the resolution. We’ i should ,'only be a source of encouragement to ,tbe forces of disorder. Event- , pally the resolution was heavily defeated. '

AFRICA’S HOLD-UP. CAPETOWN, Jan 21

Johannesburg >is now without trams. 'The power is -reserved for light. The oitizbns -are exhorted to use it sparingly. ''Newspapers and prominent men on public ’bodies urge ‘the town must have light and water and not drift into suffering, disease, and mob violence.; Public opinion must support the authorities against any minority extremists. -Meanwhile the Conference achieved no result the coal question being submitted to the collieries of the var-

ious cold fields. The Conference proceeded'to dismiss Victoria Falls power dispute. The latest position is that the Mien have tabled further grievances. A much advertised strike procession at Johannesburg was disappointing, while* only two thousand assembled at the' mass meeting at the Union ground. The speeches were moderate, Dr .Usher appealing for law and order. The Minister has ,the martial law proclamation in his drawer at Pretoria. Ninety-five per cent, of the procession were Dutch and, most of the speeches were in Dutch.

TITLED DYNAMITARDS

BERLIN. Jan 22.

The newspapers here are indignant at the light sentences imposed on the titled dynamitards in the Sohioffer’s ease, compared with the ease of a, socalled Count named Ferry, a Communis, who has been .sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment for attempting to blow up the “Victory” Column in Berlin. ROYAL MARRTAGE. LONDON Jan 22. It is officially announced that Princess Mary’s wedding takes place at Westminster Ahhev on February 28th. H.M.S. VERONICA. LONDON, Jan 23 Commander B. .Buxton recommissions the H.M.S. Veronica, in New Zealand, taking a new crew.

AN UNEXPECTED DEATH. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 23. , Lord Bryce’s death was unexpected, jHe was in bis usual health until a couple .of deaths ago, and died of heart failure. FRENCH POLITIC - . t Received This Dav at. 8 30 a.m.) PARTS, Jan. 23. Tlie newspapers formally deny the reconstruction of the Cabinet. The “Matin” states the Government is sending a note to Britain asking that the pact he extended to 25 years, and also definitely setting forth that any violation by Germany ol the line held by the Allied armies, must, lie considered by all Allied Armies equally as a hostile act.

MILITANT GERMAN VIEW. (Received This Dav at 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, Jan. 23 The “Matin’s” Munich correspondent states that Count Westarn addressing a National Party meeting, violently attacked Wirth’s and Knthenau’s policy, which Westnrp declared had reduced Germans to irredeemable poverty. The party’s most urgent task was the maintenance as a sacred fire, of the peoples desire for vengeance in order to prepare .the coining generation l'yr a war of deliverance .Germany ought to resume conscription to which she had a legitimate right, since the Allies had not carried out I heir disarmament undertakings according to the Versailles Treaty. A DIPLOMAT’S PROMISES. TOKIO, Jan 23. Count Ilchida, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in a. speech at the opening of the Diet, on Saturday, said that Japan had no territorial ambitions regarding exclusive rights in Siberia. The Japanese troops there would defend the lives and property of Japanese Nationals, but would he withdrawn when political stability was re-established. The Japanese military occupations of the northern half of the Island of Sa.kha•Tien off Siberia, would certainly be discontinued on a satisfactory settlement of the Nikoiaievsk massacre incident by a responsible Russian Government. He regarded the four-Powcr treaty as the first 3 great fruits of the conference. The Naval Tcnty was an important stem in the reduction of armaments which now was near to realisation.