MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. UNEMPLOYED MEET. LONDON, Nov 20. There was a demonstration by hunger marchers in London on Sunday, particularly in Trafalgar Square, but the weather was cold and stormy. Ihe speakers addressed a sparse assembly, and included a woman graduate of Oxford, wearing a Master of Arts Hood, who pointed out that professionals were also unemployed. Placards o! hunger marchers bore the inscription: “We will bone Bonar” and speakers insisted the unemployed should remain in London until the Premier saw them. If the present methods were not sufficient to persuade Bonar Law and others, to he advised, speakers threatened within the next few days i.rent armies of unemployed would be marching on London. Hugo forces of police are on duty, but Trafalgar Square was orderly throughout. GIFTS FOB POPE. ROME, November ‘26. Citizens of Milan, where the Pope was formerly Bishop, have arranged to present him with a tiara of three crowns of pure gold enriched with cmo: aids and pearls all men ted with silver filagree. J is fourteen inches high and weighs thii tvsix ounces. It contains two thousand precious stones. There are four tiara already at the Vatican Milan’s presentation will lie the most beautiful ever worn by any Pope. Male-antes recently presented the Pope with the first motor-car owned by a Roman Pontiff.

RACING STATISTICS. LONDON, November 26. Lord Woolavington heads the season’s most successful owners winning £32.067, Lord Derby 20.828 guineas: and Tattersall £22,257, Sir Geo. Bllllotigli £10,313. Ministress won over ten thousand. King George won 5.289. Donoghue hud 593 mounts and 102 wins. Elliott had 190 mounts and eightv-five wins; Henry -182 mounts and 73 wins; Gardener 369 mounts and 68 «ins; Smyth 376 mounts and 67 wins; Carslake 321 mounts and 59 wins; Bullock was lentil on the list, having 310 mounts and 50 wins. Taylor trained 2-1 winners of 51 races valued at £51.677 sterling; Persse 32 winners of 54 races worth £45,637 sit!ling; Dn"son 25 winners -18 races and £35.322 sterling; Jarvis 28 winners of 46 races £34,421 sterling.

BILLIARDS. LONDON, November 26. With six breaks over one hundred including 234 against Newmans three over a hundred Smith drew away on tlie final days. The scores were Smith 16.000. Newman 15.499. Critics agree that both players had the mastery over the finer (mints of the game in both matches and never has it been surpassed in the history of billiards. Inman 16-000, Falkincr 13,328. AN APPOINTMENT. LONDON. Sept 555. Captain Hotbrain of the. New Zealand Station has been appointed aidecamp to the King. EX-SULTAN’S FIN A NCE. BARIS. Nov 25. Advices from Constantinople state the ex-Sultan three days before leaving, withdrew seventy thousand Turkish pounds and deposited them in the Ottoman hank in his name. He also 1 obtained from the hank an alvanco of fifty thousand on the security of his jewels.

WOOL CHARGES. LONDON, Nov. 25. Mr Jessop, in conjunction with leading wool brokers, lias recently been pressing the Port of London Autliodity to reduce handling charges of wool, but has not yet received a reply. He sailed in the Aquitania to prosecute meat inquiries in New York, Chicago, and and i.s proceeding to New Zealand shortlv.

A MAINTENANCE CASE. LONDON, Nov 23. Proceedings in Afarylchono police court to confirm a maintenance oid-r made by a magistrate at Tauranga, New Zealand against Albert Bannister. now resident.in London, were taken at the instance of tho Colonial Se--1 cretary, under Die 1920 Act. It is stated to he the first case of its kind in London. The New Zealan’d order directed defendant to pay ninety shillings weekly in support of hi.s wife and two children at Tauranga. Defendant r<jui-dintcd tlie desertion charge and said ho intended to rejoin his wife. The Marylobone .Magistrate confirmed (lnorder, but reduced the amount to thirty shillings, and urged the defendant to buc'&up and send the family more, and return to them as soon as possible. BALKAN LEAGUE. LONDON. Nov 26. A reconstruction combination of the Balkan States similar to the Balkan League of 1912 is forecasted by Crawford Price, the “Sunday Times” Lausanne correspondent. Ho says the reappearance of tho Turk in Europe has had the anticipated salutary effect ill the Balkans and events are tending rapidly to such a consolidation. If Greece offers Bulgaria trading facilities throughout Kavalia. as well as Dedcagateh. and Bulgaria drops i 111 possible pretensions to Central Macedonia there will ho little to prevent the reformation of the old bloc against tho common enemy the Turk. It- is significant that'tho first proposal adopted by the Conference represent a compromise of Greek and Bulgarian interests plus a determination by Balkan States with the Little Entente behind them to keep Turkey east of the Maritzrt river. The “Observer’s” Paris correspondent says political circles are discussing the possibility of M. Poincare relinquishing office, ft believed by some that the skilled manoeuvre by which M. Poincare postponed for a month a discussion of the. Government policy may end in the fall of the Ministry. On the other had he may himself resign as he is vei-y tired of tho T le-niic-rship. Tie always declared .lie would hold office for a limited time. He cherishes an ambition to he elected leader of the bar which the Promier-

ship precludes. There would be many candidates for a successor. M. Louclieur is the most likely selection. ITALIAN POLITICS. ROME, Nov 26. The Chamber adjourned sine die after voting by 275 to ninety in favour of Mussolini having full power to deal with the financial administrative reform. ROYAL ACADEMY. LONDON, November 23. Mrs Annie L. Swynnerton, a member of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, has been elected to the Royal Academy. She is the first woman elected since Kauffmen and Moser, in 1768. KING OF BULGARIA AMBUSHED'. VIENNA, November 24. A message from Sofia states that robbers ambushed King Boris near the *ity. searched him, and decamped with all lie possessed—about six shillings. BARON SONNINO DEAD. ROME, November 24. The death is announced of Baron Sonnino, at the ago of seventy-five years. A FAMOUS SINGER. LONDON, November 23. Signor Tetrazzini, the famous operatic singer, will* give her farewell concert at the Albert Hall on Saturday. She then goes. to the United States, where she will give a series of concerts receiving £9OO a concert. Afterwards she goes to Australia, where she gives thirty concerts at £IOOO a-piece. B37—H gHCBBBHBnB— a