MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 November 1922, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.2. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SCOTLAND YARD OPINION. LONDON, November 12. Scotland Yard officials believe that a lunatic sent the poisoned chocolates to Horwood. The police are aware that many distinguished people have been receiving anonymous parcels and threatening letters. KINEMiA FILMS EXPLOSION. GENEVA, November 12. A kinonia palace at Montreux "as blown up by an explosion of half a million yards of films in a cellar. Only the outer walls remain. Thirty persons were injured. BLAZE IN NAPLES HARBOUR. ROME, November 12. Naptha stored in the vicinity of Naples Harbour caught lire and spreadin,, over tile harbour, enveloped many warships. The destroyer Aquiln arid four gunboats were burned and sunk. Four torpedo boats and two destroyers are still on fire. BLAZE EXTINGUISHED NAPLES. November 12. The harbour fire was extinguished on Sunday morning. The damage is considerably less than at first supposed. The blazing naptha on the water caused great alarm, but most of the ships were towed out of danger. SOVIET AND ITALY. (Received this day at 8 a.in 1 ATHENS. November 13.

As a reprisal the treatment of Italian communists the Soviet has seized ten, Italian steamers in Russian Black Sea ports including the liners Carnioln and Graz. APPEAL ALLOWED. LONDON, Nov. in. ! Sir Alrneric Fitzroy's appeal against his conviction has been allowed with i costs. The Reach, held that there was no charge against the police except over-zealousness. I ARREST OF CHILDERS. J LONDON, Nov. 11. I Erskine Childers lias keen arrested at i Wicklow. ! PRINCE OF WALES AND CANADA. LONDON, Nov. 11. The Prince of Wales, entertained hv the Canadian Club, said: “ I leel 1 have a right to call myself a Canadian because 1 am a rancher in a small w.ay. I cannot claim that lam raking in the dollars, hut I have recently had satisfactory reports. I have had to refuse many kind olfers of stock I unit breeding societies throughout the Empire, otherwise my little Canadian outlit would be like a menagerie.” BUNYAN’S TOM I! RESTORED. LONDON, November 11. In the present of leading Non-con-formist divines the restored tomb of John Btinytm was unveiled and rededicated at BunhiU Fields, London. The ceremony was preceded by a service in Wesley’s Chapel nearby. MR. BONAR LAW. /Received this day at 9.J0 a. n.) LONDON, Nov. 13. Mr Bonar Law has recovered his voice sufficiently to go to Glasgow to make a hnal appeal to his constituents. POPPY DAY SENSATION. LONDON, Nov. 13.

A Poppy Day sensation is reported at Glasgow, where sixteen girls and women were" arrested for tampering with the collecting boxes used for Earl Haig’s fund.

INDIAN UNREST. DELHI, Nov. 13. Alcali troubles continue unabated, the leaders seizing all opportunities to stir pp unrest.