MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AIRMEN KILLED. CAPETOWN, Sept 18. An aeroplane crashed near Pretoria. Lieut. Vanderbylof of the Air Force and Lieut, Stewart of the Mounted Rifles were aboard and were killed. A WEALTHY ESTATE. LONDON, September 16. The estate of the lute Sir Thomas Glen-Coats, chairman of the firm of J. and P. Coates, Ltd., sewing thread manufacturers was proved at £1,07-1,-806 and paid £582,005 in death duty. THE MICROPHONE. LONDON, September 16. The National Institute of Inventors is showing a microphone which gives perfect articulation on a telephone. It would enable a conversation to be carried on between England and Australia with relay stations, and also enable an audience to hear actors on the film speaking simultaneously with their acting. The inventor, Captain Roberts who was in charge of the detection of submarines during the war, recently directed a dirigible by sound and light. TO STOP SCABBING. U.S.A. AND BRITAIN. NEW YORK, Sept 17. At Atlantic City, .Mr Green, the secretary of the United Mine Workers of America, announced that the British coal miners’ unions bad suggested an International alliance of coal miners reciprocally to prevent coal exportation during strikes. This proposal has been favourably received bore. Probably it (will shortly result in n meeting of the representatives of tli British and the American miners, possibibly including also the Transport Workers, without whose co-operation tile export of coal could not be prevented.

Mr Green pointed out that such an arrangement would shorten the duration of strikes, and lie stated that the British Miners’ Union have sent £sofl to help to finance the recent American coal strike. SOLAR ECLIPSE. PREPARATIONS IN AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, Sept. 19. I lie various solar eclipse parties have completed all I heir preparations. The rehearsals of the programmes proved satisfactory. . The weather in the observation zone has improved and is promising. The New South Wales schools will he closed to give the children a chance of observing the eclipse under parental control.