MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 31 January 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PREMIER'S SON A CANDIDATE LONDON, Jan 29. Major Gwillyan Lloyd George; the Prime Minister’s son will contest tkPembrokeshire seat as a Coalition Lii beral. THE LITTLE ENTENTE. BELGRADE, Jan 29. Jugo-Slavia and Roumania have signed a military convention completing the circle of the Little Entente Agreements, surrounding Hungary by an armed circle witii united police. A NEW ZEALANDER KILLED, PENANG, Jan 29. Robert Orton Smart, a New Zealand ex-officer in the flying corps while returnings from, Penang to Kadab jungle, had his skull split and he was killed by Malay robbers, armed with huge native knives. Smart’s fiancee is due to arrive in February. Four arrests were made and one confessed. AVIATION. LONDON. January' 30. The “Daily Express” says: A .scheme is well advanced for a service of express mail aeroplanes, which, flying day and night, would reach Australia in four and a half days from England. Relays would be obviated by the aeroplanes mepeiy changing their engines en route. INDIA AND FIJI. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.). LONDON, Jan 30,

Tljte appointment of Lieut-. Hessa Madden, Indian Copimission Officer as member of the Fiji delegation is regarded) as an indication of the Indian Government’s desire to discover whether Fiji affords facilities for a settlement of Indian ex-service men. It is hoped by the introduction of a higher responsible elaes of Indian immigrants, to lead to a better understanding between In dan and Fijian colonists, over the handling of problems connected with the employment of Indian labour. Much satisfaction is felt in India at the prospects of Mr Hughes conferring with the delegation, THE GERMAN NOTE. 'Received This Bar at 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, Jan. 30. There is mucli newspaper comment on the German repatriation note. The opinion is general that the reply weakens the Cannes plan. The ‘‘Echo de Paris” says it has at least the merit of bringing the Allies to a sense of their responsibility. It is impossible for them to avoid replying to German non possums.

FREE LABOR AND STRIKERS. 'Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) CAPETOWN, January 30. A mass meeting of strikers in Johannesburg carried; a resolution in favour of taking action with the object of defeating the Government, and substituting one calculated to protect the interests of wliie South Africa. A conference is to be arranged with the opposition parties. The meeting also instructed all strike committees to take the necessary steps against free labour.