MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1922, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AN AIR CRASH. PARIS, Nov. 14. Le Bourget’s machine, when competing in the Grand Prix for commercial aeroplanes, crashed at Villcpinte. The pilot and two mechanics were killed. COMMERCIAL. (Received tin’s (lav at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Nov 14. Wheat cargoes are quiet and unchanged, parcels advancing sixpence. At a. meeting of the Australian-New Zealand Land Company, the report showed the profits for the year were £59.962. The Board transferred £91,472 from the contingency fund and carried forward £4,175, after declaring a dividend of four per cent, on preference shares, and five per cent, ordinary, both tax free. radio stations. OTTAWA, Nov. 15. Marconi Coy., of Canada propose to build four stations in Canada, as a link with the All Red Route and i* asking for a license to build in the New Year a twelve thousand volt station at Vancouver with a radius of seven thousand miles. CRUISERS LEAVE HURRIEDLY. MALTA, Nov. 14. 1 The light cruiser, Concord, returned from Chanak on Sunday. She was hurriedly taken out of dock where she was refitting, and leaves immediately for the Near East. Two destroyers have already sailed thither. The light cruiser Ceres and a destroyer sail on the lßtli, SENTENCES CONFIRMED. WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. Tlie Supreme Court has confirmed the rigorous sentence of the Philippine High Court condemning II members of the Philippine Constabulary to death, and 65 to a sentence of life imprisonment in chains. The incident arose through a quarrel between the Manilla Police ami (lie Constabulary. The Ini ter charged the police with insulting a constable’s wile. A fight ensued. One constable was killed. Ihe Court then sentenced 11 constables to life imprisonment in chains, and 66 to imprisonment in .chains for 17 years. The prisoners escaped after incarceration, hut were recaptured. The Court then increased the sentences to | the limit. |

the limit. COMMENT ON GERMAN CRESS. (Received this dav at 11.,1n a.m ) BERLIN, November 15. Herr Wirtli commenting on his resignation. states that throughout the conferences the Peoples’ Party had given every assistance and raised no objections to his reparation programme. “The Vorwacrts" attributes Heit Wirth’s downfall to His le ideiship and disposition to deal with party leaders behind closed doo-s.,lnstead <4 coming into the open. The ‘'Deutsche T.mes Zeitung” says the crisis was precipitated by the Government's repeated yielding to radical pressure. The “Berliner Tagcblatt" blames both Socialists and Peoples Party for putting party interests above the coiintrv’s welfare. AN ACTRESS’ ESTATE. (Received* this dav at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 15. Genevieve Ward, the actress. left £BB7O nett. She bequeaths five thousand and furniture to her maid, various pictures and testimonials to the National gallery. Royal Academy of Music, Green Room Club, Museum at, Stratford-on-Avon, and a portrait of herself as Ninon de Lenelos, together with a testimonial album received in , connection with the Antigone perform- j mice at Melbourne to the Garrick Club ; IN THEATRELAND. ' LONDON. Nov 15. The theatres arc going to the “demin'ition bow-wows” is probably the theatrical profession's view of the suggestion that the leading players should not be boomed in tin* largest type on the hills. The point is now submitted to legal decision. Dorothy Dix. the leading lady in “Broken Wings,” has issued a writ against her manager. Gordon Bostoek, seeking ait injunction to restrain hint from hilling other artists in tin* p!.iv in letters of larger type than tiers; or allowing the electricsign over the theatre to exhibit other than her name. It appears that an AmC'i'ican. Thurston Mali, the leading man .was billed outside the theatre, and bis name teas also emblazoned .on

, <> i lc!trie sign. SAD POISONING CASH, e Rec eived this dav at 10.30 a.in 1 NEAV YORK, Nov. 13 1 Six little girls, inmates of a Catholic Home, found a, box of rat poison while playing near an ash barrel in the grounds of the institution. They believed it to bo candy and consumed it. One is dead and one is dying. The others are seriously ill. A vermin exterminator who v.as working in the buildings left the pi ison, which was swept lit) and cast in-o tin- barrel. :