MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

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PRINCE IN JAPAN. TOKYO, April 29

The Prince of Wales spent the day amidst glorious scenery in .Japan.- He visited Lake Biwa, the biggest lake in the country. It is dotted with islands, and set amidst mountains, a scene of dreamlike enchantment. The Prince participated in fishing with bamboo nets. Thence lie proceeded to Gifu, and witnessed cormorant fishing by torchlight. The birds’ necks are encircled by a ring, to prevent their swallowing the prey. The Prince later returned to Kyoto, and engaged in a number of social functions.

JOURNALIST’S FORTUNE.

A LUCKY ACCIDENT.

LONDON, April 29. Mr Victor White, journalist, and son of the late James and Elizabeth White of Melbourne, who were divorced in Australia 30 years ago, has inherited £BO,OOO sterling under the will of Harriet O’Brien, half sister of James White, who made money in the refreshment business up country in Victoria. Mr Victor White saw a solicitor’s advertisement in a London weekly paper by accident.

OBITUARY. PARIS, April 29

The death is reported of M. Paul Desehanel, late President of France who retired after a brief term owing to a health breakdown. He was born in 1856, was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1885 as deputy for KureetLoire. He was elected Vice-President of the Chamber in 1896, and was President from 1898 to 1902. M. Deselianel was President of the Committee on Foreign and Colonial Affairs from 1905 to 1912. He was a famous writer, celebrated as a French stylist. In 1920 he succeeded M. Poineairc as President of France but resigned a few months later in consequence of ill-health following on a fall from a train.

FAMOUS COMPOSER MAD. ROME, April 29

Dom Lorenzo Perosi, the famous composer, who wrote “The Passion of Christ,” and “The Resurrection of Lazarus,” lias gone mad. He has been distributing 50 and 100 lire notes in tho streets of Rome. He has already given awav 70 or 75 thousand lire.

EX-PRESIDENT WILSON. WASHINGTON, April 28

Several thousand women, including delegates from the Baltimore Convention of the National League of Women Voters and the Pan-American Women’s Convention, staged a demonstration before ex-President home. The former President, leaning heavily upon his cane appeared at the door, thanked the crowd and expressed his regret that lie was not strong enough to make a speech.

HOBSON BAY GETS CREW

SYDNEY, April 30

The Common weal th'steamer Hobson s Bay secured a crew and has sailed. LONDON, April 29.

The Commonwealth Government line of steamers will vail at Plymouth on homeward voyages, to land mails and passengers, commencing with the Ilohson’s 11av in June.

SCULLING. LONDON, April 30.

Oeorge Towns, .'ex-champion sculler has arrived accompanied hy llryan (Queensland Amateur champion) who competes in the Diamond Sculls at Henley in July.

LENIN’S INJURY. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) MOSCOW, April 29. Official—As the result of an operation, Doctors extracted from 'Lenin’s shoulder a .bullet which had been there since his attempted assassination.

WORLD’S BIGGEST MARKET. COLOMBO (Ceylon), Jan. 4. Lord Northdiffe, who arrived here to-day, is op a visit to the Governor, Sir William Manning, at Nuwnra Khya. In a brief memorandum Lord Northclilfe has issued, he states that he considers the outlook for British trade m the Far East is good, but German competition is very keen. Moreover, there is great American and French activity. Chinese and other merchants, the memorandum continues, continually complain of the monotony of the patterns of British textiles. Lord Norlbclilfe considers that opportunities m Siam have been overlooked, but China, he declares, is the greatest market m the world. The Chinese arc firm believers in British wares and are fat or- ; ab i v disposed to the British owing to the’ abrogation of the Anglo-Japanese goods. Lord Northdiffe says, are arriving everywhere in laige quau 1 tics, and there are many new and excellent German ships afloat.

TRAIN THIEVES. PARIS, Jan. 25

Sir John Bradbury and Mr R. W. Bovden, the British and American representatives on the Reparations Conmission, have been the victims of railway thieves while on their way back to Paris from the Riviera. They travelled in the express Dorn Cannes to Paris on Sunday and occupied adjacent sleeping berths Before retiring to rest they « their coats up opposito their ler i-• Next morning, as the train was nearing Paris, Sir John Bradbury and his companion found that their pocket-books had been removed. Sir John states that his loss amounts to about £3O, while Mr Boydeil lost pbout £2O,