MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ITALIAN INTENTIONS. (Received this dav at 8..30 a.m.) ROME, March 13. In a warmly applauded speech when opening tile new headquarters of the disabled soldiers association, M. Musso--1 iti declared be considered disabled men and the families of the fallen ns the aristocracy of the new Italy. Government was stern because it had stern tusks. The nation needed discipline, and calm work. The enactment of an eight hour day had proved Government was mu reactionary, but false shop herds preaching Utopias wit’ not to be allowed io wreck the nation. The Fascist Government meant to maintain its cam- at all costs. PRESSMEN PROTEST. LONDON. March 12. file Council of the Institute of Journalists passed a resolution recording strong disapproval of the increasing tendency by newspapers to publish, with undue prominence, the nauseous intimate details of divorce petitions, murders and other criminal eases. TECHNICAL MILITIA. (Received this dav at 0.30 a.m.) LONDON. Mar, li 12. An explanatory iiiomoraml'mi en the army estimates announce- while infantry militia would not at pi 1 cut justify the cost .the need lias arisen for technical militia, and a scheme for this is being devised, and C3s(h!lUt) provided for it- inception. BISHOP'S PROTEST. (Received this dav at 9.30 a.’ii.l LONDON. March ',2. The Bishop of London speaking at the Mansion House, said lie had been told that the closing of public lieu.-cs at Whitechapel at ten instead of eleven at night, had made all the difference between heaven and hell. let it wax proposed in the Lords that the (losing hour should lie eleven throughout London. He had never heard of more monstrous proposals.' The proposer knew nothing about it and did not i ailiso what a difference it would make :n tile East end. “I will die on the doorsteps of the’ House of Lords before I will allow the iiiiqiiitious proposal to become law.” CONSERVATIVE ORGANISER LONDON. -March 12.

Air F. S. Jackson succeeds Sir G. Younger as Chief Conservative organiser. Rear Admiral Reginald Hall will be deputy chairman of the Party organisation.