MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 October 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

LONDON HOSPITAL APPEAL. LONDON, Oct 6,

Thirty thousand flag-sellers responded to the Prince of Wales’' appeal t< raise £IOO,OOO in aid of the London hospitals. Fetes and quaint pageants have been arranged by the hospital stud euts and nurses, while Vauxhall Gardens have been transformed into a replica of the Vauxhall of a century ago. A BUSH FATALITY. ROTORUA, Oct 7. 0n Saturday a man named A. Mepherson, married, ajzjcd 40, wss killed /through being crushed between two logs in the bush at Mungarua, where lie was employed hv the National Timber Company. GEORGIAN REVOLT. HELSINGFORS, October 7. The Russian papers say tho rebellion against Soviet rule in Georgia ls now rapidly spreading. The rebels have •vercome the Red troops and have reached within sixty kilometres of Tiflis. Reinforcements are being dispatched from Moscow.

H. G. WELLS. LONDON, Oct. 7. Mr H. G, Wells has acknowledged his selection as the Parliamentary Labour candidate for the Guidon University at the general election. Mr Sidney Welih unsuccessfully contested this seat as a Labour candidate in 1918. Mr Wells, in his acknowledgment, said that the Labour Party was meant, not merely for the working classes, but lor everv sort of productive cflort and service. If he were elected as the University representative, he would mal>e it his duty to see that education was not cheapened or sweated. He never, he added, saw a guardsman dressed in his finery, without feeling he was dressed in the stolen pens, stationery and in the impaired mental health of poor kiddies. We wanted the nations’ affairs managed, not b.v whispers in bankers’ parlours, hut b> plain speeches in the professional choir.

GLAND UllAniiMi. LONDON, Oct. 8. The “Daily Express’s” Paris corresi>oiideiit says:—“News has reached Berlin from Doom, Holland, that the ex-Kaiser is anxious to undergo Dr Voronoc’s monkey gland rejuvenation treatment. Inquiries in Berlin official circles confirm the news. Dr A or-I i,miff, however, says he has not yet received any request from the Kaiser, lie questions whether the matter is not a joke. Nevertheless, he says, ho would not refuse to perform the. operation, saving Everybody., even the cxKaiser. has a right to rejuvenation. AOKD ENGLISHMAN’S TESTIMONY. LONDON, Oct. 7. Regarding the monkey gland treatment, a man named Liardet, «t 7G-year-old Englishman, who lias come to Paris to attend the Faculty of Medicine, testifies to the efficacy of the treatment of' Dr Voronoff. H clonks the picture of health, and says he feeds twenty years younger. WAR MEMORIALS AT LONGUEVAL.

LONDON, Oct. (I. Sir ,J. Allen,.Lady Allen, Sir F. Bell, General Godlcv, and Mrs Rolleston have proceeded to Longucval for the unveiling of a New Zealand memorial on Sunday. BRITISH SHIPPING QUESTION. LONDON. October 6.

Mr Jossop. vice-Chairman of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, has let-urned to London from a visit to Bristol, Cardiff. Liverpool, and Manchester, where he coni erred with the civic and port authorities and also with with business men. in quest of direct shipments. Mr Jesscy, .interviewed said he was most impressed with the necessity to use these port as distributliing centres, because of the expense delay and detrioration of mont and fruit, arising from the distribution from London. This lias become most serious. He expressed- the opinion that there was a good opportunity for developing tho export of frozen pork from New Zealand.

LUCERNE TRAGEDY. GENEVA, Oct, 7

A young married couple, named Wallace, whose relatives live in Auckland, died at Lucerne under tragic circumstances. The wife died as the result of food poisoning, whereupon the husband in a fit of mania, fired a revolver shot into his dead wife’s head, and then shot himself dead. • GENEVA, Oct. 7. The Wallaces were roently married. Mrs Wallace, whose age was only 23, complained that she was unwell. Her husband hurried her to the host hotel. The doctor diagnosed her case as one of food poisoning. The wife died in a few hours in terrible agony. The husband threw himself upon the body in a paroxysm of grief. Later, when loft alone, lie got a revolver from his lugK ago, and stint himself. It is understood that Wallace came from New Zealand, hut his wife was ail English girl.

ISEVAN’S TRIAL. LONDON, Oct. ti. David .Macßeth -Milligan gave evidence in tlio Bevaii case that, at a hoard meeting of the City Equitable Company at which throe directors threatened to resign, failing an investigation of the company’s affairs, Revan exclaimed: — “ You arc not going to give me a stab in the back like that, arc you ’ The meeting appointed a receiver, and Bevim was asked to leave the room.

The Magistrate intimated that he intended to send the case to trial .

THU MARSDEN SEAT. WHANG A V"’ 1 .Mr Morrison, the official -lfeform candidate for the Marsilen seat, has retired on account of ill health. A meeting of delegates has therefore selected Mr William Jones (the Whangarei County Chairman) in Ins stead. Mr A. IT. Curtis arid Colonel Maekcsy, two other candidates, agreed to withdraw in favour of Mr .Tones. The. only other candidate in the field is -Mr A. J. Murdoch, who was runner up to Air Mander at the last election.

FASCIST! TERROR. ROME, Oct. 6

The Fascists have occupied all the municipal buildings in upper Trentino from Salerno to Ilolzano. Mussolini, the leader of the Fascists, declares that there are two sets of authorities in Italy, namely, the Government, and the Fascists, the latter numbering hundreds of thousands. If the Government, he says, have not dissolved the present Parliament by November, the Fascists will dissolve it.

GERMAN PRESIDENCY. BERLIN, Oct. 6. At the German Presidential election ■■n the third of December, President Ebert is expected to receive the votes of all the parties, except the Monarchists and the Communists.

A PLAGUE WARNING. MELBOURNE, Oct. 8,

Doctor Sinclair has issued a warning that the plague is not necessarily entirely eliminated from Sydney. An infected rat was discovered there a: late is July 13. He draws attention to the fact that the Queensland outbreak oe••urred about this time last year.

THE WAIKATO SEAT. TE AWAMUTTT, Oct. 7. A largely attended meeting of Lib■ral delegates to-day selected V! Lye, a dairy farmer, of Pukckuru, to contest the Waikato seat. The meeting was unanimous in the selection. Mr Wilford having left the choice of the Liberal Party candidate to the delegates. Mr Lve thus l>ecomes the official Liberal candidate. THE ORCHARD CASE. VERDICT FOR DEFENDANT, AUCKLAND, October f. In the orchard case Hie j iry, alter half an hour’s retirement, returned a verdict in favour of del vidant The finding was that plaintiff had not done everything necessary to eradicate disease from the orchard or prevent the spread of disease, and that the measures taken by defendant were nt.esarv to eradicate the disease.