MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1923, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION KITCHENER’S HEART. LONDON, Jan. L. Writing in the “ Weekly Dispnt’eh,” Dame Mellin says: "If anybody tells me that Lord Kitchener had no heart, I have an answer ready.” She then gave an authorised version of nil incident at Government House in Melbourne, when Lord Kitchener attended the Governor-General's dinner. The Governor-General, the State Governor and Lord Kitchener pretended to kneel before her. When she said he would not, Kitchener replied: "Madame, I have been in exile for light years; sing just a verse of " Home, Sweet Home.’ ” J-Nie complied, and Lord Kitchener, with tears rolling down his cheeks, kissed her hand. ITALIAN TARIFF. ROME, Jan. 1. Milan reports, that Signor Arnaldo Mussolini, a brother of the Prouder, and director of the newspaper "II Popolo d'Halia,” the chief Faseisti journal, announces that the Dalian Government will shortly sweep away import duties and give Italy a fiscal system practically corresponding to English Free Trade. The Government believes that the Customs harriers are doing incalculable harm, and the time is opportune lor a change, as a wave i*f self-reliance is sweeping over thecountry, and many realise that tile hastily-drafted tariff law of July. 11)21, has had a had effect. The fall ol the tariff walls will offer great opjiortnnities to British traders, who are already recovering the coal trade.