MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1922, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

j >ustbalian and n.z. cable association. RACING. LONDON, March 24: Tito result of the Liverpool Grand Naj tional was—Music Hall 1, Denifter 2, ; Taffytus 3.

SENATE AMENDMENTS

WASHINGTON, March 24

The first of Senator Robinson’s amendments on the Pacific Treaty providing that each contracting party refrain from 'entering into any secret treaty agreement or understanding with any other during the life of the Treaty, i Robinson will later offer an amendf ment as a reservation. A flood of reser--1 vations was introduced before thfc votiing began. Senator Lafollette introduced six, providing for abrogation of any existing treaties inconsistent with the present one, providing that no other treaties Relative to the Pacific be made f I>v1 >v any signatory Powers without the f consent of the others. The other LaI follette reservations are already cabled.

TIPTON EXPLOSION. I LONDON, March 24. I The case against Knowles and Chnd- ! wick in connection with the Tipton ; explosion is based on the ground that 1 the Home Office was not aware KnowI |e< was going to break up cartridges ‘ for which operation he had no permit. H e entirely neglected the provisions of the Explosives Act. As the first wit. ./ ni'ss was called, a. woman in the Court screamed. She had just been inform- : ed her daughter, a victim of the ex- ■ plosion wag dead.

XFAV PTUSON CAMP. WELLINGTON, March 25. The Prisons Department has acquired icn thousanda acres on the shores of f okc Taupo for the purpose of establishing a new prison farm, a few miles from the township of Takainu. The bind is chiefly pumice country, but includes a considerable area of hush, and is flat to undulating. Hon Lee stated mat by means of prison labour the land would he prepared for settlement purposes. The intention of the Prison Dopnitmpiit is to develop the block bv moving temporary lints and buildings forward as the .develoment proceeds. Some buts are already up, and when tbe camp has boen fully established, 'more prisoners will lie drafted there and work will go on steadily.