MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN ANI) N.Z. t'ABLK ASSOCIATION. POSSIBLE DIABETES CURE. LONDON. March 11 During research work at Bio Chemiia! laboratory at Cambridge into yeast preparaloiuK a solid substance was secured which it. is believed will give as substantial results in the treatment of diabetes as that produced by Insulin. A MADRID MURDER. MADRID, March 11. ,\ well-known Syndicalist. Salvador Segui. was assassinated while leaving a public bar. A friend accompanying him was da rigorously wounded, while a woman passing by was killed by a stray bullet. Segui had been accused of running the hare and hunting with the bounds. A TROOPSHIP DISASTER. ATHENS. March 11. I he h -s ol the Alexandre was due to a violent explosion aboard. A furious storm hampered the rescue work. Only three out of twelve military officers were saved. BRIDE IN A PANIC. LONDON. March 8. When Gerald Fitzgerald Hamilton -| lull, a New Zealand farmer, went to M Mary’s Catholic ( hull'll at Kentish Town with Miss II I!' ::: Wilson to lie married, the bride was seized, with panic and ret used to proceed with the ceremmiv. A estertlay the couple again attended the church and the cremony was : ompJeted. ALPINE MYSTERY. LONDON. .March. 12. A Geneva message .states Peter laugv,alder, the well-known Zermatt guide, died on Saturday at the age ol 81. He was the only survivor of the Matterhorn disaster on July lltli. 12<> >. I lie secret of the AYhymper disaster has thus Keen maintained by him. and it will never lie known if Tnngwalder cut the rope in order to save his own lee. as AYhymper asserted, or whether the rope, which was old and worn, patted under the strain of the lour men who were dangling on it over a glace.-t. Taufiwaldcr himself afterwards never passed the spot without a short silent prayer. He lias, however, climbed the Matterhorn 125 limes since the accident. without a mishap.

RUGBY FOOTBALL. LONDON'. March Hi. .At Rugby Union football. Ireland defeated Wales at Dublin by live points to four. EGYL'T’S FREEDOM. LONDON. March 12. The “.Morning Post's (aim eorresponden says that the opinion there is that the British community is strongly opposed to any further concessions to Egyptian nationalism, or ic any pact with the Xagblmil Nationalists. AIR SERVICE. LONDON. Man'll IT. An aeronautical correspondent, states a deputation is to wait on the Premier, with a [(.•quest a definite decision regarding the formation oi an imperial aircraft service, incorporated as an auxiliary reconnaissance force in war time, instead of light cruisers. It is polluted out the admiralty is stressing the necessity of including provision ol a subsidy for airships, hut action was delayed owing to the difficulty of deciding which department shall control airships in war. The deputation will also urge the need of developing of quick means of transport, to enable political co-operation of the Governments of the Empire.

SHETjL-SHOCK DISASTER

SOLDIER RUNS AMOK

(Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. March 12

A man named Wier. a shell shocked soldier ran amok in the working class district of Brighton on Sunday afternoon. A railway man named Parker, feeding chickens, was suddenly shot in the stomach. His sister-in-law ran to help and another shot seriously wounded her. As she fell she saw her neighbour. Weir, pointing a doublebarrelled gun from it window. Three shots grazed the forehead of a man looking from the window of another house. The noise attracted two men from their gardens. Weir cried—‘‘Go back or I’ll shoot.” They fetched the police who found Weir rav’ng having taken a- dose of cyanide of potassium, llis aged mother, in tile meanwhile, bad disarmed him, and handed the police a gun and a quantity of ammunition and bombs. Weir had been behaving strangely ol late, owing to a wound received in the war.

FRANCO- BELGIAN CONFERENCE (Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. March 12. The “Morning Post's” Paris correspondent states to-day’s conference at Brussels between M. Poincare and M. Theimis is believed to have as the principal object, tile fixing ol definite details for civilian administration of railways in Ruhr and Rhineland. Another object is to discuss what the Franco-Belgian terms of peace should lie stated to be, in a Ihe event of Germany showing a. willingness, to cease resistance. It is possible the conference will result in the laying down of at least preliminary bases of a France, Belgian, German agreement on the whole reparations question.

LUXOR EXCAVATIONS. Received this dav tit 12.25 p.m , LONDON. March 12.

A l.uxor correspondent states a mysterious black bitumentised box. shaped like a sentry box. was removed from tlie preserving chamber for treatment and lias now been opened. When the 111 ml seal bearing a jackal and nine captives, was removed the folding doors opened and revealed a fine standard of busts of Nome, of Upper Egypt, the emblem consisting of a. “snac” on a pedestal, made of handsomely carved wood, covered with gesso and heavily gilt. Tt is a beautiful piece of work. The pedestal bears an interesting inscription regarding the King and the God of Nome. Egypt was anciently divided into forty-two Nonies, or provinces, each placed under the protection one particular clivinity. Generally, when a King was buried the emblems of each of the Nome deities were interred with him. ensuring him the protection of all deities in Egypt. The discovery of this emblem in the black box makes an interesting suggestion in regard to the numbers of similar sealed black boxes remaining in the tomb.

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. DETECTION OF CRIME. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, .March 12. .Scotland Yard > s experimenting with wireless, with a view to getting into tone It with their flying srpiads of detectives in order to get track of criminals within a moment of a time being reported. AIL! PROPOSALS. Received this dav at 12.2-5 p.m.) LONDON. .March 12. The “Dailv Mail's” aeronautical correspondent States the Air Ministry is culling tenders for the construction of a huge metal aeroplane capable of night and day living, suitable for employment on Empire mail all red route. The machines will he equipped with three engines, each cue thousand horsepower, such as tested by Hinkler, cabled on 1 OtT, December. Ihe engines will he so arranged than in ease of engine tioulile one of the others can curry on. D is hoped to be possible to establish a. iUot ol great planes, stationed in relays of a thousand miles, at Malta, Cairo. Basra, Karachi. Calcutta. Penang. Singapore. British Borneo and Australia. RUSSIAN MILITARY COUNCIL. [“The Times” Service. ! Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON. March 12. The ‘Times’’ Riga correspondent states a secret conference of the Revolutionary Military Council is piotou j n g ;,t Moscow, representative from Angora General Staff are participating. Another Angora delegation which * *'- cently pas-i'd through Russia is now at Berlin.

.lOC KNAl.iS'l PROTEST. Received this day at 12.20 p.t.iA LONDON. March 12. The Council of the Institute of .Journalists passed a resolution recording their strong disapproval of the increasing tendency of newspapers In publish, with undue eii.mila'itee, nauseous intimate details of divorce petitions, murders and other criminal cases. OXFORD'S BOAT, LONDON', Mmvli 12. The Oxford University crew have decided to scrap their boat (cabled I Ith. February). Bowers and Phelps are building another. \s a result ol experiments by Pi Bourne, Sir John Thornyeruft’s boat was abandoned. She rode well in smooth waters at Henley, but was too .shallow for the rougher waters and shipped water badly. The new Ininl will be ready on Wednesday. She will he half an inch deeper and six feel longer, fifty nine feet eight inches on the water line, and will have a perfect streamline, it will have -taggered. instead of centre, seal mgs TinCam bridge boat w ill In- eve tiv iho same as in 1922.

SHIPPING AMMUNITION. Received this dav at 12.25 p.m.A LONDON. March 12. A document produced at the Birkenhead Police Court, when two men named Michael Breen and Je eph Lynch wero committed for trial in i oniioetioii with the despatch of aininmi it inn lc Ireland, showed the men were apparently acting under inst ructions from a man who signed the documents is oliieei commanding in Great Britain. II also showed twenty thousand rounds were sent to Dublin from London. Another paragraph stated 4..800 rounds were sent to Limerick.