MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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CIIKICK DECISION. •ATHENS, January I*. Government have decided not to agree to payment of any indemnity to Turkey. The newspapers urge Government to defend the nations interests with arms. A TRAIN WRECK ED. R.- "iv’d this (lav at 11.30 a.rn ' DELHI. January 18. Colutubp mail train which v.as reported to have disappeared in the flooded area, has been discovered completely wrecked. It is believed no lives are lost. PERSIAN REQUESTS. TEHERAN. Jan. 18 The Persian Government's application to tic represented at Lausanne Conference was refused, on the grounds that Persia was not a belligerent in Die Near East. The Government thereupon protested to British, Italian and French legations, claiming that as Die conference heard Chaldean representative and discussed matters in which Persia was interested, she had a right of representation. A SAD END. LONDON. Jan 18. E-. W. Nelson, a member of Captain Scott’s last Antarctic expedition, who is scientific superintendent of the Marino laboratory at Aberdeen-, was found dead in the laboratory. Death was due to the self injection of a deadly poison in the leg. Nelson was respondent in an undefended .suit in tho London Divorce Court on Monday when his wife- obtained a decree for restitution jof conjugal rights. Nelson was a brilliant Biologist and Mathematician.