MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 March 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND V 7.. CABLE ASSOCIATION. CHINESE FOREIGN .MINISTER RESIGNS. PEKING, March 22 lluangfu, Foreign .Minister, lias resigned owing, it is reported, to attacks against the Government in connection with the latter's alleged failure in tho matter of the abrogation of the twentyone demands. ORPHAN GIRLS FOR N.S.W. LONDON, -March 22 Fifty Raniardo orphan girls who are sailing tor New South Wales on Wednesday, were received by tile Queen at Buckingham Palace. Her -Majesty, in a speech, said that, in wishing them good-bye and good luck she would like to say to them : —‘'Always he cheerful and make the best of things and remember that life is made up of loyalty lo your friends, loyalty to yotii country, loyalty to your King and above all, that for which holds all loyalties together, loyalty to your God. Yours will he a healthy outdoor life, perhaps somewhat strange at first, but you must not be disheartened. You will soon got accustomed io your new homes. I hope you will lie very happy and T shall always think of you. God Mess you and keep you.” LENIN’S CONDITION HOPELESS. HELSINGFORS. March 22 Notwithstandingg recent official bulletins a Moscow message says that official circles consider Lenin’s condition hopeless. FARM WORKERS. LONDON. March 22. The Secret ary of Agrii-iilt tiral Workers-' Union issued a statement that though the farmers are demanding a titty four hour week. the\ refuse to guarantee full-time work. The farmers are including in their losses post-war deflations in stuck and machinvy valuc-. Agriculture is in urgent need of an impartial inquiry concerning the actual profit*- and losses. INDIAN FI.NANCE. DELHI, March 22. The Viceroy, exercising the power of certification, lot.- restored the Budget grant of three lakhs of rttoees negatived by the Assembly. The debate on the sale tax. proposed b.v the Government, which would result in a small surplus |nr the current year instead of a huge deficit. produced greater excitement and heat than the Royal Commission grant. Indian members were hostile, making many bitter speeches. Attempts to secure a compromise failed and the tax was eventually thrown out. It is anticipated the Viceroy w ill restore it.

The newspapers unanimously condemn the attitude of members, who are declared to he wilfully endangering liefinancial stability of the country.

fill) HE blllttiT Tt i KILL.’ VIENNA. March 22. A crowded theatre witm-s-ed a ti ugedv during a musical hall “William Tell" act. Alexander Hreunei v.-e,

shooting glass halls and elect in gIM-.es oil" his wife's head. Ills first shot struck her in the forehead, killing her instantly. Tho man appeared brokenhearted. Imt Lite police arrested him. It is alleged that be bad had a liaison with a pretty dancing girl.

WAR MEMORIALS. LONDON. .March 22.

Lieut Mildcnhall. New Zealand representative on the War Graves Commission at Galipoli. has arrived in London. He reports the work is proceeding satisfactorily, the Commission utilising Italian and Russian labourers, as tho Greeks there lied after the Smyrna catastrophe. Five cemeteries in the Anzae area have been completed, except for headstones, which are to tome from England. Work on two cemeteries at Mttdrus. one at Syra. and two at ConStantinoplt*. is .'proceeding at ].resent.

Gallipoli, he says, is now occupied by 15.01)0 British troops. The Graves Commission, adds Lieut. Mildonhall. are rather apprehensive oi tumble when the British troops are withdrawn from Gallipoli. Ihe I'ill's have constructed a railway acro-s the peninsula to Anzaes enabling them to command both sides.

The New Zealand war memorials al |. ■ Qucsnov will he unveiled conjointly with a Fonch memorial in •Line. Marshal .loll*re attending. At . Mosmuos mid Gravcnstalf memorials will he unV i iled at the end of September. BRITISH TRADE WITH GERMANY. LONDON, March 23. It is authoritatively announced I . a difficulty that arose regarding the taxing of the Biiiish coal (hat is being imported into Germany has been overcome. British coal will ww '.’.He, Germane free of taxation. - .-ewise some difficulties regarding British trade tho unoccupied area.and in the British occupied area have he. li settled. THE WASHINGTON I’AUT. PA i. IS. March 22. The Foreign Refill ions Committee of the French ( linin' u of Deputies argued the Washington Naval Pact mr set- , I nil hours yesterday. n-U-mrnioit w"'”, out reaching a decision. j LONDON. March 2i. I Mr K. McNeill, replying in i’arho- | 'ment. to a question, said that a ' : [erenee will he held at ‘ Lmevn j March 25th. to consider j extending the principle „f the Aa-ei- t- , ton Treaty to "ou-siguatm v ‘ • ' win are members of the League <>' ! , Th . States who are not mcin-l.-'is? i:*' said, will he. advised of 11 ' 'I ; HE GERMAN ARMY . LONDON. March 22. Mr Guinness, replying in the House of Commons, said that the Bntish ie present ative on the lute,-Allied Commission of Military Control was satisfied that the German Army reductions »' men and material had been so effected as to constitute effective (lisannamen*. HUNGRY FOX. A DESPERATE FIGHT. GENKA’A. March 22. Frederick Raymond, aged 10. while ski-ing home in the twilight, had ft remarkable life-nnd-death struggle with a half-famished fox which suddenly dashed out from a pine forest, Raymond frustrated the fox’s attempt to reach bis throat, but the animal savagely bit and scratched his legs. Bml jonl'y the hoy and the fox fell together m a patch of deep snow. Ihe fox renewed its efforts to reach a vital part and drove its teeth into the Imv’s neck. The hoy fought desperately with his hands. Then luckily, he I detached one ski, with which he belaI boured the fox till it wa s dead. He then dragged the fox’s body to I.e Sentier. Raymond was immediately removed to the Pasteur Institute. Tins is the first ease recorded of a fox atI tacking a skier ;