MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS .

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION 1 SPANISH TRAIN DISASTER. ; MADRID. Dec. 27. A train crowded with soldiers, when returning from manoeuvres, collided with a goods train at Ontentiente. 15 were killed, and a hundred wore injured, 20 of them seriously .

THE EN-KAISER’S WEDDING. THE HAGUE, Dec. 20. At Doom, the ex-Kaiser has sold the world’s rights of the official photograph of his recent wedding, to the Tvoystone View Company for SIO,OOO. (i s.A PROHIBITION LAW. WASHINGTON, Doc. 26. Senator Curtis is now taking cognisance of charges that illicit sellers or liquor are openly plying their trade in the United States Senate and House oi .Representatives office buildings. tor Curtis, Chairman of the Rules Committee. has ordered the Capitol police to arrest all bootleggers, no matter who is backing them, or to whom they arc selling liquor. He declared that, no amount of political influence will save men who are caught violating the prohibition law in the Capitol.

INDIAN TRAGEDY. DELHI, Dec. 20. 1 The trial of Sergeant Andrew and a number of policemen, who were in charge of the van wherein a number of Moplah prisoners were recently asphyxiated, has ended. There has been an acquittal of all the accused.