BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1922, Page 1

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

ITJBtHALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FLYING AROUND THE WORLD LONDON, March 1!). R.oss-Smith has postponed his (light until May. His machine is unready. OBITUARY. LONDON, March 19. Obituary.—The Bishop of Colchester. AN AIR MOVE. PARIS, March 19. The Chief of Potice is arranging for the use of aeroplanes in locating unruly assemblies in times of civil disorder.

ANOTHER ENGLISH SCHEME. LONDON, March 19. Mr P. M. Hamilton, of Victoria has organised a scheme at Oxford to send promising lads to Australia under the schemes for overseas settlement. The committee of the Rhodes Trust is impressed with the success achieved last year, and has decided to contribute the cost of dispatching 20 more hoys to Australia.

• MESSAGE FROM THE SEA. .Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. March 20. A bottle containing a message from the Austro-Hungarian Expedition of 1874 was picked up at Nova. Zembla. and forwarded to Vienna. The letter is in excellent preservation and is identified by the solo survivor. It recounts how the ship was jambed in the ice pack in Franz Josef land, and the crew were compelled to abandon the ship.

ALL GERMANY’S GOLD. RERUN, March 19.

Reports from Frankfort state that fifty millions in gold marks (almost the whole reserve in the German Reichsbank) will he shipped to England next wleek. It is to he sent exclusively for security in the financing of German purchases of foodstuffs and raw materials in England. Tt cannot be touched, therefore, in connection with the reparations.

EGYPTIANS AGAINST NEW REGIME. CAIRO, March 19. Many disloyal demonstrations and (iestruction of decorations are continuing; but the native soldiery and police —who are loyal— are masters of the dt,nation.

A BIG LOSS. LONDON, March 20

The Co-operative Wholesale Society’s actual trading loss for the half year to December is £445,191. Interest charges and depreciation bring the total loss to £1,416,615, which is debited to the reserve fund, reducing it to £64,268.

big bush fire. SYDNEY, March 21. A terrific windstorm near lAlbury was responsible for a disastrous bush fire. It is estimated forty square miles are affected. The losses of grass, stock, machinery, hay and fencing is reaching thousands.

TURKEY’S AIMS. LONDON, March 20. On leaving London after a prolonged conversation with Lord Cumin, Izzet Pasha informed the “Times” that he was satisfied with the visit, and did not despair of the re-establishment of peace in th e Near East. He insisted that all Asia Minor, with Turkish frontiers, must be assigned to Turkey with Turkey’s full sovereign rights over them.' Turkey accepted freedom of navigation of the straits, conditionally on the security of Constantinople being assured.

A BTGAMY CHARGE. AUCKLAND, March 20. Catherine Angus, aged 33, admitted contracting a bigamous marriage. The evidence showed the accused was mairied at Petone in December of 1909, and bad recently went through a form of marriage at Wbangarei, stating that she was a widow. In a, statement, the accused said her husband deserted her, and went to the war. As she Heard nothing of him, site presumed.that- be was dead. After remarriage she left her second husband and then miet Angus again. Angus said it was bis fault. She had believed him dead, as be bad changed bis name. She was committed for sentence.