MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1922, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOOIATIO". A COMPOSER’S CONDUCT. PARIS, Dec 26. It is reported that Signor Prosi composer of the Oratorios, the Nativity, Resurrection of Christ and other masterpieces lias been declared insane. Measures have been taken to prevent him destroying unpublished nnifscil numbers, which lie threatened to burn, under the belief that the publish tended altering them. w .

CUSTOM’S FRAUDS. PARIS, Doc 26,

Customs frauds amounting :o twenty million francs involving a number of well-known business firms is reported. It is stated a number of foreign armour ers and gunsmiths, taking ad"antage of the immunit yof members to militarv service from Customs dues on anus in their possession during the demobilisaton, took the opportunity to send surplus stocks to Trance under pretext that they were the property those immune from Customs dues, disposed of them at a great profit. Tho authorities are tracking the offenders and are hopeful of recovenng a large portion of tho unpaid dues, •

GREEK SENTENCES. ATHENS, Dec 26. Admiral Goudas and General Stratigos were publicly degraded m fulfilment of the sentence passed at -the same time as Gouruaris and others wore condemned to death.

N.Z. STAMPS.

MANN’S COLLECTION SOLD,

LONDON, Deo 23. A dealer purchased for £2O >OOO Mann’s collection of New Zealand X*. «)-h» -id A-onmleto m the world. It "as 'forty years ago, and includes the pick of eveo- great collection. The purchaser otos to sell it to the Museum as a whole, otherwise it will be broken up. '

MADAME BERNHARDT. _ PARIS, Dec 26. Madame Bernhardt is greatly . rruproved! and amazed the doctors , b, getting up.

REPRIEVE SOUGHT. LONDON, December 23. Over 1.000,000 people have signed a petition praying for the reprieve of BywaterS. No petition was organised on behalf of Mrs Thompson, the puhlic believing that the authorities will not hang a- woman.

REPITBLICAN’S death.

REUTER’S telegrams

Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 26.

Joseph McDonagli, Republican member of the Dail for Tipperary, who was arrested three months ago was removed from Mountjoy gaol last week; suffering from appendicitis and died in a nursing home in Dublin. His brother was executed in 1916.

ITALIAN COINAGE.

, MIXED SERVICE TELEGRAMS

(Received this day at 9.30 a..it.) LONDON, December 26. The “Daily Mail’s” Rome correspondent states Mussolini baq, ordered the issue of a new coinage bearing Roman faces, the emblem of ancient Rome, from which the Fascisti derives, thenname.

KU KLUX KLAN.

NEW YORK, December 25.

A message from Mevrouge states: r Phe first arrest has been made to-day ' r.s the result of the Ku Klux Klan mur- : J els , a ntan lias been apprehended, and charged with murder. Ete will appear before the Federal Supreme Court. The Federal Secret Service men have worked for months before they secured enough evidence to start proceedings only. , - i Troops continue to pour into the territory, and now they are numbering nearly 1000. They are repeating .in the Southern State the scenes which occurred after the Civil War, when the Ku Klux Klan operations assumed the dimensions of a national menace. NEW YORK, December 26.

A telegram from Baltimore, Maryland states Doctor B. Mc-Kain, formerly Mayor of Merrouge, has been arrested on a murder charge upon the orders of Governor Parker, of Louisana, in connection with the Ku lvlux Klan mui-. dens. Me Kain, who is now a postgraduate student at a hospital here, when arrested described an ambush attempt on his life last August, declaring he would not return to Louisauia without military protection.. He declined to answer unv questions ill regard to, his membership of the Ku Klux Klan but related some decoy calls made by the Klan on behalf of negro atients on the outskirts of the town. MeKain has protested his entire innocence in connection with, the murders and deies any connection with them.