CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1923, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

U'STUAi.IAN AND N.Z. OAHUS ASSOCIATION, j

EGYPTIAN MURDER. ! CAIRO, Dee. 2s. ! Ti e Egyptian Government has *ent a I Note to Lord Allenhy expressing pro-! found regrets for Robson's murder and ! ik-ehiring every step will be taken to I apjireliend the murderers. it: state-: | tbit investigations had been taken m;'. | of Egyptian hands and entrusted to tl I European section ol ti c Home Ministry. REPRIEVE AGITATION. I .ON DON. December 29. The whole Obmot are cnnsulerin.i I tin- question of whether reprieves she! | la- granted By vv a ter... and Mrs 'Ull-un;- ; sun. The Home Office state-- tin- d j eisiou will not Iw- annoon- ed till Hie , in | ot next week. It is understoi 1 j that failing repri--ves. !, th exf-eetion- i will he earned out on .lanuai'v 9th. I I GAS TRAGEDY. I.ONDON, December 29. | Thl'fe persons are deed and seven [ i have hae-n taken to the ln-spit a I as lit • j result nf gas poisoning at Beilin: 1 • Green this morning. Thirty fd-lter-- j are slightly affected. There has 'been a ! leakage of gas in the street for a few i days. A Gas Compuy official investi- j gated the matter, and found the leakage serious and began to arouse the 1 neighbourhood. One man and It is wife and a hoy were found nit,onsetotts in Tod. and died despite artificial respiration. Seven others, two old wanton, a man and his wife, and three children, were ii-seued iw neighbouring houses, and are making favourable progress towards t eeoverv. Forty pers' iis were affected hy the gis-poisonim; at Bethnal Green, due to the leakage in a main in a small street. Half the houses in the street were lil'ed by the escaping gas. A MIX U EXPLODED. I.ONDON. |)e: ember 89. A I 'm! min- was placed near Mr M ■ ( tdlag'i’s musu- shop in Dawson .Str.et iu Dublin, which d'-stroyod the building red damaged other-, the explosion I s’taking the c'ty. Xo deaths are :e----potted hut many we e injured. Air McCullagh i-- a probable candidate for a vacancy in the Frc-e Stele .Senate. Two Bi ll rebels wet- exeeoted in Kilkenny. A I SIRA I I ’ X ITEMS. SYDXF-A. Jan I. Sailed ve-.iei-day. Waih.-mo. with a vi.-iunt cr i ith. New Y.-a - -1 a ,oi cI- hr., | j.,n s in Sydney on Saturdi, i ght v,-n- v,-r.v quiet and largely lacking the o- ual I it list • "i niiwin ,-s. X. vv S nt h Wale i-o•• cine- for l ! - half year ended y.i.tonlay wa- C|ii.129.0:-) an inerett.-e of Taii'.'i.Tlil i,■: ■ n the previous corresonnilin-; hah voir c'la -1 v-ar N - i ::•! le cxji.ricl too, ,■! ■". I I - a (Uaica-f of 3' imp;,red -■■ith lb" pri v ion- ' yea r. Xi u X ■:; I -:: (.'ltt. \ •. r>. ,|j:'. .-a,, t An ivet! Kauri from Auckland. MKUiOl'R.ila-i I. erea- of Ci,!o3 ir U M f Av a I ii: 1 • 111; •* -I !•> I ■ i'a J : I' dim Couuiry Party. -!;:,| ! I v We-t Australia Vi a -venue f n- tka tudf ~f V•j 7 t I. .'-.DU: A in'. J:,n i. Tic- State i" veioic Mr 1 ! all y- tr was 23.4 12.il : ; an in :o, . of y. (i;t!) comi'ared with I': • prc'unu ; y.-a r The ••Times” w ill attm-Min ' ot .Mm:day that Mr (h-otl'r.-v Dav.s i l.ar-iiMippriinta d Editor in uf a:

INDIAN CONGRESS. \ * DELHI. Dec. 31. rnfav-ur.-.M'- new sr; in Lausanne (‘ti - .ftwr.ro 11; ■ NLtjJ:!;- -iirred Khalija, < oug: i . !.-•. Rc[>iV : ciilai:vo ■ i liii iaidu h:;:- !■;:> moved the ■;Li oui !i:nt-iit hi ,vs:s:.S.>r ti.C situation, v. ;,li ~ view ■ !he immediate launching o mass civilian disobedience. Hie i ; . ion a... detent.el, ami tic bougies, dionnicd. An Indian Natal Congress. in reject!g th,-. proposal to contest .-eats in r.'n.mcils. decided t,, leave the present ; ;a-c..; 1 -.io'"*ra l'. ve proiiraaiino unchanged. EIRE ON LINER. ii ceiv« : this day at L3O a.mA I ONOON. .Julian; y I. \ Hie brake nut in the linen state ,f i!,,. Am-oira in mid-Atlantic during and following a gale of sixty miles hourly. ! lie dancer was great and ,| v a single bulkhead se]at rated the linen -tare from the oil fuel store. Ik • as douhtl'nl if boats could b> hmncli- | in the heavy seas. It took one hundred members of the or: w eigat hours to control the out ue.tk. j 1 j ! j 1 , i i