BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1922, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION BENGAL FLOODS. DELHI, October 11. The floods in Bengal are subsiding, though still large areas are inundated. It is estimated the casualties arc between three hundred n.ud four hundred. TEA SALES. DELHI, October 11. At Calcutta tea sales the general quality was higher than the previous offering. The market was stronger and thee was an all round advance in prices rf three quarters to 1J emus per pound, excepting pekoes and orange pekoes which were a. quarter of nil anna dearer. THE SOMME DEAD. PARIS. October 11. Mr Massey in a letter to the Com•mitfcee for the eirecl.ion of a Pantherm e nunemoia ting the Alii d dead in the Somme campaigns, to l e p Deed outside Amitui' has accepted a position as one of the high patrons. Ho says he will lie glad to hear how the great proied progresses. RUSSIA AND KSTKOXPA CONFER. (Received this dnv at 9 n.m.) LONDON, Oct 11. , Advices received n.t Reval from Moscow state the Soviet Government has agreed to a proposal of JCsthonin to hold a disarmament conference of Russian and border States on October -3-;th. FAIR, OF THE MARK. BERLIN. Oct 11. ' Cabinet unanimously derided to issue ordinances limiting speculation in foreign currencies, in order to prevent a further fall in the mark. INCITING MURDER. REUTER’* TELEGRAMS. (Received this dnv at 8 a.in.) CAPETOWN, Oct 11. The. Special Criminal Court at Johannesburg passed (hr. death sentence on two miners. 'Herbert Hull and David I oeinis, on n charge op inciting a mob during the March disturbances, and to fire on the, occupants of a motor ear whereby Lieut Taylor was killed. CHOLERA IN JAPAN. TOKIO, Oct. 11. Cholera is spreading in Tokio and Yokohama. There are 127 cases in Tokio, and 28 deaths have occurred.

FA SCI.ST I MUSTER TNG. UNITED SERVICE TEI. FOR AMS (Received this dav at lb.'lo a. n.j LONDON. Oct 11. The "Daily Mail’s” Naples correspondent states that thirty five thousand fully armed Fascist! arc mustering at Naples on the 25th. There are arriving by special trains, under the leadership of Mussoliniafter which all will proceed to Rome in order to be present at the reopening of Parliament, which they have ordered must be dissolved. ■ ANCIENT WARSHIPS. (Received this dav at 9.30 n.ir.) j LONDON. Oct 12. Tlio “Daily Mail’s” Copenhagen correspondent states that a Yiking’s warship, tinting three hundred years before Christ, the oldest over found, j has been discovered in a hay almost | intact. It is now being conveyed to a museum. ; A I'END ETTA. I tßeceived this tiny at 10 a.m.) I ROME, Oct 12. I A furious vendetta has raged intcnivittently fur over a century between the Corsician families of Pao-

Icitti, and Sairti. living in the village of 01live.se near Ajaccio. Seventy men. twenty women and 'overal children have been killed during the last fifty years. Then a jieneeful settlement had been brought about by the engagement of the sixteen-year old Paoletti girl, to a. twenty-yen rokl Sarti. The family then discovered the girl had flirted with oilier lioys in the village. A Imated discussion resulted in old Sarti stabbing a. Paoletti to death. Finally three more were killed and four severely wounded. Till* vendetta is now in fiill swing again, extending to the whole of OHivese. which is split into two factions.

THE COMING ELECTIONS. /Received this dav at 10 n.m.) LONDON, Oct 12. In view' of the prospaet of early elections. thu Independent Labour-Party has planned five hundred demonstrations and two hundred conferences before the end of the year. It is significant that the party though always hitherto aiming at State Socialism, now opposes bureaucratic- state control suit's ting iusteniL that I nuie l |l_ bars lirc ir'i c led in'order to include that all workers with baud c>r brain should he responsible for the internal management of the industry, acting in conjunction with consumers. Repres/tntn,tiers of the patty demand the first labour Government shall call a world conference to secure thn abolitic,ii „f armaments by mutual consent. Ei'hlceii wciinni have be«n adopted as candidates fur the next general election, mostly women who have made their .reputations m municipal polltits. THE KAISER’S BAGGAGE. Received this clay at 12.25 p.m) AMSTERDAM, October 12. There was great excitement at Bourn, on the arrival from Berlin ot a dozen heavy trunks supposed to contain the ex-Kaiser’s court unilo m and probably the frown for the new so-call-ed Queen of Prussia. The arrival of the baggage revived rumours that the weddiii" will be followed by a private

"if * coronation at which the Prussian Royal title will be conferred on Madame j Hermine, in the presence of a few selected members of the old Impel inf Court. cAUSTRIA’S FINANCES. Received this clay at 12.25 |>.m.) j ROME, October 12. ! Beiieduce ex-fnember of the Cabinet has been selected r.s contrcller of Austrian finances under the League of Nations scheme. A CANARD. (Received this dav at 1.5 p.m). RTO DE> JANTEiRO, October 12. Pertugiiese'”iivlators, wirelessed from the steamer Porto that the assassination rumour was untrue that the trip was uneventful. MARTE LLOYD’S FUNERAL. (Received this dav at 1.5 p.m). LONDON, Oct. 12. All classes of, the community were represented at Mario Lloyd’s funeral. There were carloads of wreaths from theatrical organisations, leading jockeys, boxers, costers, and flower .sellers,