MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION, GRATITUDE TO THE NAVY. -NEW ZEALANDER’S GIFT. LONDON, Feb. 9. As a mark of gratitude for the work of the Royal Navy in the war, Mr G. S. Ileade, of Rotorua, has given the Admiralty his Holbrook estate in Suffolk, valued at £30,000, for tlie benefit of Greenwich Naval Hospital.

ANKYLOSTOMIASIS. (IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN SUVA. SUVA, Feb. 10. An important discovery lias been made regarding the treatment 'of ankylostomiasis in Suva Hospital by ■the use of carbon tetrachloride. Dr Hall, Senior Zoologist of the United States (Government, who conducted .csts over some months, found a perfect vermifuge for hookworms and other intestinal parasites in dogs. The Suva tests removed 98 per cent of the worms in human beings with one dose, almost without symptoms. The treatment is still in the experimental stage, blit it holds out .great promise Jt is the first' known practical use 'ol the new remedy. The results ate of great economic importance as the cost. , is only oYiociglfth of'that oi the old, method. ,

“PEACELESS EUROPE.” : HOME CAUSTIC REMARKS. • LONDON, Feb. 11. Signor Nitti, the former Italian Premier, has written a book, “Peaceless Europe,” which is being published in London. Ho unscathingly criticises the Versailles Treaty, and caustically refers to the leading characters at. the Conference. It treats Mr Lloyd George affectionately, hut says AT. Clemencenu was a “tremendous destroyer,” and that Air Woodrow Wilson was fickle in i his infallibility. He maide a great • mistake, as the head of a State, in tak- i ing part in the Conference. He wasj greatly ignorant of European affairs.; Mr AV. M. Hughes. (Australia) is de- • picted as “a small-minded, violent manwho directed a furious campaign for a* huge indemnity, demanding that Gel---many should pay the entire cost of the war.” Later, says Signor Nitti, Mr Hughes, who was a. sincere man, recognised that it was impossible to go be yond asking for reparation damages.

ANOTHER QUEENSLAND LOAN. NEW YORK, Feb. 10 The National City Company have announced the purchase of ten millioh dollars worth of a Queensland loan. The loan has a eurreny of 2d years at (i per cent (including sinking fund). It is an internal gold loan. The bonds arc non-callable. The issue has been offered at 90).

11YSTER TO US C A MPA lON. TO DAM AGE FRENCH CREDIT. LONDON, Feb. 10. A mysterious campaign of defamation against the financial stability of France is being waged. ATRPLANK TRAGEDIES. LONDON, Feb. 11. An aeroplane crashed at Burnham, in Buckinghamshire. The pilot and a passenger wore killed, their bodies being charred.

Another aeroplane crashed in the Bnldonnell aerodrome, at Dublin. Harris, the mechanic, was killed, and Perry, the pilot, was injured. AN OXFORD SENSATION. LONDON, Fob. 0. An Oxford undergraduate confessed that ho sent chocolates to the ViceChancellor, dusted with powdered glass. Tie pleaded that he did not know they were dangerous to life. He has been granted a pardon. SEIZED GERMAN ISHIPS. DECISION AGAINST CONFISCATION. T/ONDON, February 10. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has reversed the British Prize Court's decision, condemning ns prizes three German nierchantships, each undp r 1100 tons, that were seized in London and Liverpool on the outbreak of war. These boats wore requisitioned by the British Admiralty, one of them grounded and another was lost, being torpedoed by tbe Germans The Judicial Committee held that the German owners of the ships are entitled to benefit from the terms of the Hague Convention whereunder merchant ships in enemy ports on the' outbreak of war must not be confiscated but merely detained. Lord Sumner in delivering judgment, said: “While Germany may have flagrantly disregarded the obligations under the Hague Convention which fettered her freedom of action it, did not follow that she had intended to repudiate a Convention under which she; stood to gain largely in the long run, and to thereby give Britain a right to; treat herself as released from her corelative obligations. The judgment entitles the German owners to eompenthe torpedoed steamers.

EMIGRATION SCHEME. LONDON, February 10. Mr Churchill, reply to a deputation pledged the Government’s financial cooperation with the Dominions in establishing permanent continuous emigration. He hoped to pirns a Efll dealing with the subject this session.