BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. WHEAT CARGOES. LONDON, July 15. Wheat cargoes are firm, despite the fairly heavy world shipments. Steamej parcels advanced sixpence. THEFTS AT BALLS. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 14. Lady Beatty lost a pearl and diamond cluster brooch valued at £2,000 sterling at a ball given by .Mrs Marshall Field, at which many notabilities were present, including the Prince of Wales, and Duke of York. Several losses of brooches have occurred recently at similar fashionable' gatherings. The police believe that the robberies are carried out by an expert thief gaining admission as a hired servant. . FISHING EXPERIMENTS. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 15. j The Air Ministry is co-operating with | the Scottish Fisheries Board in a series cf experiments off Scotland in locating ! boring skoals. Three aeroplanes arc operating from a base in Fifesliire and will carry Fishing Board experts as observers. When shoals are observed the information will be sent immediately to the Scottish fishing ports, enabling the boats to proceed direct to the spot. French, American and Cana-' dinn Governments are carrying out similar experiments successfully, but the water of the Scottish coast is more opaque.

GERMANY PAYS. Paßls, July 15. Germany paid a reparation instalment of/£1,600,000 sterling due to-day. VATICAN FINANCES. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) ROME. July 15. The newspaper “H Mondo” stales lbe Vatican budget shows a deficit of seven to eight million lire. The Pope las appointed three Cardinals as a commission to inquire into the grave abuses of the finances incurred during the recent conclave. STRIKE TROrBLES. 'Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 15 Mr Harding lias announced that the miners rejected bis arbitration pioposal cabled on the 10th,but the Government plan to relieve the situation will not be announced till Monday, when the mine owners reply to the proposal is expected. The railway strike situation throughout the country is also becoming more and more disturbed. At one place in the far west where mail trains have stopped, ! >-j Post Office Department is using motor, lorries to transport mails. Aeroplanes., are also hold in readiness for the same j purpose.

BIRTH CONTROL. (Received this clay at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON. July 14. The Birth Control Conference, consisting largely of the British doctors, passed a resolution that it was of the greatest importance that provision for hvgenie birth control instruction should become part of the recognised practice of the medical profession. Dr Hnire stated the realisation growing on all sides of the necessity of some measure of sterilisation of the unfit, in the interests of the race. The time was coming when all but the very lowest would practise birth control. When that date arrived they would turn on the small minority who bred recklessly and insist on their compulsory sterilisation. Doctor Millard presiding said Doctors need not be ashamed of their small families. The class coming next to them wer<> the clergy of the Church of England.

COST OF LTVTNO. LONDON, July 15

For the first time for many months, the cost of living in Britain rose four points in July. Tt is now eighty four per cent above the pre-war cost.

PRIESTS CELIBACY. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON. July 15. The “Daily Mail’s” Romo correspondent quotes the newspaper “Epoea” for a report that. Cardinals and Bishops signed a memorandum imploring the Pope to relieve them of what.they characterise as the impossible observance of ecclesiastical celibacy. The memorandum declared that the purity of life was the highest aim of the Church and is readied through the free working of man’s nature, tint hv coercion and the imposition of lnws against nature. The memorandum describes the authors as victims, struggling desperately against a martyrdom worse than death, a.ml . prays the Pope to relieve them from : their cruel position. RUSSIAN RELIEF. .Received this day at 10.15 n.m.f WASHINGTON, July 16. i Air Hoover reported to Mr Harding that up to July Ist 59,500,000 dollars had been spent on Russian famine relief or allocated for expenditure and 140 ship loads aggregating 788,878 tons of food, medicines and supplies had been provided for relief work. i A QOMING FLY. ) • WASHINGTON, July 16. ! Walter Shinton of Number 4 fame. I during the first week in August will 1 depart on a 7365 mile hydro-airopiane tlight from New York to Rio de Jai niero. He will carry five passengers. | The trip includes a thousand mile tlight | up the Amazon. The route will skirt 1 the Atlantic coast of both Continents. I He expects to arrive in time for opening the world’s exposition of the Centennial of Brazil’s independence.

AMERICAN SENATE. WASHINGTON, July 16. | The Senate defeated a provision in the Tariff hill for a continuation of the . embargo on the importation of dyeI stuffs for another year. CALIFORNIAN FRUIT. WASHINGTON, July 16. Fresno (California) fruit growers have petitioned Air Harding and the Governor of California to facilitate the transportation of the fruit crop. They declared the crop is valued at two hundred millions, and is endangered because of the crippled railway service. CHINESE POLITICS. PEKIN, July 16. Cabinet has formally resigned preparatory to the opening of Parliament, when the President may desire to reconstruct the Ministry.

| HAGUE IMPASSE, j ■ (Received this day at 9.00 a.m.) '*■ HAGUE, July 16. Optimists hope the Conference may yet receive a new lease of life. lho Russians only say they prefer to deal with private individuals, rather than Governments. Moreover they do not want all the bridges cut between Russia and the rest of Europe, so are studying the problem of private property. with a view to finding a way trom the impasse. SICILY’S HERO BRIGAND. ;Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) ROME, July 15. Sicily’s classical brigand, Turi Rapisnrda, lias been arrested, in Catania, after a lapse of nine years. He is a powerful Sicialian arid‘has long been the boro of the country about Mount Etna, When a. lad of nineteen in 1913. bo shot two carabineers in an attempt to release an unjustly arrested brother. He fled to the forests around Etna where lie has operatedsince. Offers of big rewards and all I manner of traps failed to secure him, because the peasants regarded him as a gallant, generous friend of the weak and poor. He waged war on robbers and common criminals, healed family feuds, restored stolen property, and did otlier good deeds. During the war, lie limited deserters, many of whom scattered among the mountains. When lie caught them, lie gave them the option of letiirning to duty or being shot as traitors. Rapisnrda was known throughout the countryside. Ho rode a l>iu mare, richly caparisoned, and was followed bv three fierce mastiffs. IDs love of dancing led to his undoing. He went into a village to dance and three carabineers waited in ambush. W lien Raoisarda and several friends were leaving lor home, Rapisardn found rifles levelled at bis breast. His friends fled and Rapisardn. surrendered, reproacling Ins companions ns cow,,rds The carabineers found him aimed with three revolvers live Imnclre'l cartridges. a limiting knife, and stiUctto Rapisardn refuses food in prison. | Already thousands or rountrv-folk have | signed a petition to the King beseechinji Ills pavdon.

TRAIN FALLS INTO RIVER. (Received tin's day at 1.30 p.m.) BUCHAREST. July 16. Two were killed and twenty-four injured through the- Bucharest-Vienna express falling into Prnhova river near Sinaia owing to a bridge breaking.

AUTOMOBILE RACE. (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) PARTS, July 15. Felix Nazznro, won the French automobile Centre’s Grand Prix at Strasburg, five hundred miles, averaging slightly over seventy-nine miles per hour. His nephew. Biagio Nazznro, also competed, but bis car overturned killing tile mechanic instantly, while Bingo died shortly afterwards. CAPE POLITICS. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) CAPETOWN. July 15. Colonel Cresswoll took bis scat in the Assembly as leader of the Labour Party. The Senate by 20 to 9 votes rejected Mr Reitz’s motion arising out of the recent adverse comment in awarding birthday honours. ’I be motion provides that in future Government should neither recommend, consent to. nor recognise the titles of whatever sort bestowed from outside on citizens of the South African Union. The Minister for Justice sniff if the motion were confined to hereditary titles he would be inclined to accept it. but not in its present form.