BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 April 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

ANCIENT EELICS. “the times” service. 'Received This Dav at 10-15 a.in.) LONDON, April 23. Oovernment road repairs to the old Roman road near Darlford excavated interesting traces of Celtic and perhaps earlier civilisation. A female .skeleton seventy-live inches high, was huried in an attitude of prayer in solid chalk, seven to eight feet below the surface. Crude ornaments and unknown coins were found deeper; tlso fragments of Roman tesselated pavement.

' F RICAN ROUT ICS. ■'Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) CAPETOWN, April 23 In the Assembly, -Mr Smuts replying in the Indemnity Rill debate in a vigorous lighting speech, said the commission was more necessary than ever, because owing to the mine owners victory, there were dangers ol employers refusing to take account ol the choice of organised labour. Oovernment could not countenance tyranny on either side. While welcoming the I idlest enquiry by the commission lie acknowledged some irregularities were inevitable, such as those the opposition exploited to the extreme, though tin' findings at the preliminary enquiries gainsaid their allegation. Government did not attribute blame for the upheaval to Jews, and did not intend to administer the immigration laws hostility towards Jewish immigrants, lie expressed the greatest contempt loi the labour legislators who led the strikers deeper into the mire. While Tillmann and Rons were making the nationalists a party of workers and peasants, the country should realise this danger.

| PRINCE OF WALES, i. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.hi.) TOKIO, April 22. : The Prince of Wales unveiled a, war ! memorial at Yokohama general eemcj tore, in the presence of the entire | European colony and many high | Japanese officials. As a special trii hute, the Government allowed the ; landing of a guard of honour from | H.M.S. Renown, which was unusual, as no armed foreign troops are allowi ed to set foot in the Empire.

SOI'TH AFRICAN PRKCAI-TIONS. | j Received This Day tit- P.4fl si.m.i CARKTOWX, April 22. • The Minister of the Interior an-! [ nouncod m the Assembly that (io\eriii ment intended to eonipens’atc persons j engaged in military opertitious, injur-| ied in the recent disturbances on the , ! Rand; also to appoint a committee to.i | deal with the claims for injuries caused ; : through military operations to pro- , ; party belonging to persons not con- j ! corned in the disturbance.*. After an ; I all-night session, the second reading off i the Indemnity Bill was carried by Go J 1 to 47. ! ORITf ARY. LONDON. April ‘23. Lord Mountbatten died this morning.