BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

j AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. j INDIAN AFFAIRS, j DELHI, February 12. I Mrs Cousins, the well-known author, I lias l>cen appointed a special magistrate. She is the first woman magisj trnte in India. The racial Distinctions ; Bill is having a protracted passage ; through the Assembly. The Indian members arc raising all manner of obj jeetions to what they term Whitehall interference and privileged treatment of British soldiers and other Europeans. ENGLISH TRIADR. LONDON. February 12. The Federation of British Industries has appointed a special committee, under Sir Erie Geddes, to consider the possibilities of inter-Tmpenal trade. It submits its conclusions to the Imperial Economic Conference. j AUSTRALIAN FAUNA AND FLORA I fßeceived this dnv at 10 a.in.) I LONDON. Feb. 13 ! ■Mr G. 11. Wilkins shortly leads an expedition to tropical Australia and adjacent islands under the auspices of the trustees of the British museum. ! The expedition is ex peeled to last two years, and will collect specimens of the fauna and flora inland, extending from Victoria to Torres Strait. They will also explore the islands off North OiC'eiir-land giving sp:s i.d attention to any alteration in ihe mammalogical life created liv i-ku'.l isolation. The expedition will have a scientific stall of live, with necessary assistants, and will travel through North Queensland by caravan, and thence by an auxiliary schooner. Afterwards Mr Wiikius hopes to engage in further Antarctic Exploration with the aid of a long distance aeroplane and wireless. . PARTY POLITICS. j fR .reived this dnv at 111 a.m.) ( LONDON', Februu r v 13. i lit. Hon. David Lloyd George, ad’dressing a meeting of Liberal Peers and National Liber; 1 Commoners, raid now,: ns ever, it was his desire to see the , greatest possible measure of Party uni- j ty attained in support of the essential principles of l.ikeruli-m. lie bad not seen the same desire in the “Wee Free” i f|iiarter.s where Iris advances for prac- , tical co-operation met with no response, j The l/diour Commoners and the Party executive at a pre-session meeting. appointed a new parliamentary executive to replace the former committee, Mr Ramsay MacDonald (the . leader) urging the necessity for inton- ! sive parliamentary action, lie conn- . soiled moderation as their policy might ! in the course of meats bring them into i ) rower. j

I,OX DON. Kehnniry !:5. | Thu Beeketf-Smith light hits Ijoeii 1 further postponed for ill leust a month owing to tho former's damaged hand. FAIUS. February l.'T j In order to celebrate tho twentieth anniversary of its foundation. tho French Boxing Federation voted an amnesty to all disqualified boxers. Thus Siki is entitled to box again directly : lie applies for a new license. THE SWEETS OF PAST .AGES. | (lieeeived this day at TO..'SO a.m ■, I I.ONi )OX, February IT.

Sir Rider Haggard, in a letter to the Times, suggests that alter the necessary X-rays examination and wax models arc made. Tutankhamen's mummy should lie sealed up in the Chamber of the Great Pyramid in such a fashion that only the complete destruction of the pyramid would reveal it. Sir Rider says:—"Relies of people who in their way were a.s great as we are. and certainly more religious, should be sacred. It is indecent and unholy 1 to put the mummies of great kings in glass eases in the Cairo Museum to rot 1 and become the merry jest of tourists. The greatest horror by which the .Pharaohs were obessed was the fear of the desecration of their tomb. ! once took a small share in this unhallowed game and regard it ns not the least among my errors.” PARTY politics. (Received this dav at TO a.in.) > LONDON, Feh 13. f Mr Hogge has resigned the Liberal whipship in consequence s of .Mr As<juith appointing; ISIr Vivian ."Phillips chief whip. 7ifr Hogge declares the organisation of the Liberal Party is absolutely undemocratic ami surfers from being a. close corporation. It was rank folly that a party in th ■ present condition should do anything else than atlemot lo secure a united partv forthwith.