MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1923, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

uUSTUAI.IAN AND N.Z. CAI’.LE ASSOCIATION. CHINESE DIPLOMAT. PEKING, March 14. Sac. Chinese Minister to U.S.A., has sailed lor the United States to resume the Ministership.

BRAVER BOOK CHANGES. LONDON, March 14. The proposals of the committee appointed by the House of Bishops to amend the Anglican Prayer Book include a dumber of cuts, in order to make the proposed Revised Psalter. These proposals will be sent by tbe House of Bishops to the laity, for conideration. in April. The following are the cuts: —J saint 14, verses 5 to 7: Psalm 5, verse 16; R-alm 58. the whole Psalm; Psalm 08, verses 21 to 23: Psalm 03, verses 2:i w ~ to -T)- Psalm 109. verses 5 to 19; Psalm 137, verses 7 to 9; Psalm 140. verses 7 and 8. Tlie omission is clue to the tact that tI R . text is so bad that a satisfactory translation is impossible. It is also proposed to alter 346 other verses. . . The committee of tbe House of Bishops report that they have removed only the most conspicuous blemishes. Many more alterations are necessary to bring the Psalms up to the requirements of modern scholarship. \V UNUSUAL CLAIM. LONDON, March 15. Tbo first such case of its kind h’ l ' two hundred years has been tried m he Court of Session at Edinbuigh. Captain Adamson sued bis mother-in-law Mrs Giliihrand. a wealthy woman .if Lutterworth Hall. Leicestersl.trig for C 5009 damages lor causing bis wife to '* Captain Adamson alleged that the mother-in-law bad ejected him from Per house, where be was li\ mg 1 wife, and bad used a dominating inline,ice and threats to compel Ins wife to refuse to live with him. The case was dismissed. BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON, March 10. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at a National Liberal Club luncheon m hii honour, appealed lor Liberal units. Otbcrwie. tbe said, the party would become paralysed. The present Government bad quickly lost its prestige, and Europe was conferring and acting as though the British Empire did not exist. The National Liberals were not seeking shelter at at the door of any group. Unity, or no unity, they would have their own campaign programme and propaganda. BIG CLAIM FROM U.S.A. LONDON. March 15. The Handley Page firm claimed, before a joint British-American commission. a quarter <>f a million damages for the war-time use by the American Government of plans for the construction of aeroplanes. Judgment was reserved. LENIN DYING. MOSCOW. March 15. M. iK'iiin is again reported to be dying of paralysis.