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Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1923, Page 3

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| liV TELKOKATMI—3’EJ! I'IIESS ASSOCIATION.] A BLOOD FF.UD. DELHI. April 13. The murder of Alnjor Orr and .Major Anderson was committed by members of a notorious outlaw gang. It is regarded as a. typical Pat ban blood lead without any political significance. The murderers escaped. HINDI'S. AND AIOHAAIM EDA NS DELHI April 13. ITirlinit between Hindus and Alahommedr.its an Anistar eulmimued in serious I rouble. The British troops ami mounted puli.' rest,mil order, and are patrolling tb" city. Sixteen casualties are reported. TRADE AT STANDSTILL. DELHI. April 13. Advice, from Turkestan and Bokhara state that fighting between the insurgents and Bolsheviks continues unabated. Trade is at a .standsiili. FIJI St'GAR DI'TY. SFVA, Apiil 13. The export duty of one pound per -ton on sugar was expected last season to realise Loti,BOO, blit the .Secretary oi State agreed with Air Knox, ol the Colonial Sugar Coy. to refund. As a n-.'ilt of negotiations, however, the company waived its claim to the refund provided t.l:e *u diiiatice wire repealed in April. The l.egisl.ii ivc ( ouiieii. sitting this morning, pn.-sod the necessary Mill lor this. The Addre"-iii-lfeplv wa, than read, in which the elected members protest: strongly against the action ol the See ret ary of State in promising to return the duty to the Company without (■.• insulting the Council, and they asked for an undertaking that such things wii. not recur again, ns it rendered the work of the Council useless. The elected members refuse further to carry out the functions of government in the colony until the assurance demanded is received.

A motion that the Addross-in-Reply lie received as an expression of the opinion of the elected members, was ( arried. Tie Governor said lie dissociated himself from the result of the delay in the transaction ol business, and he expressed a hope that the action taken would not damage the financial prestige and credit of the colony. The Council ilion adjourned sine die. AN ENGLISH MYSTERY. LONDON, April .Scot la ml lard is engaged in investigating the iii.vst.-iiou- robbery of a new issue of Treasury note', of a value if L17,0(H), from the Bradford Bands Office on Tuesday. A bullion box was forwarded from Loudon. and was placed in the railway office on Tuesday. It was missed to-day. There were no signs that the office was being broken into. The theory is Unit the robbery was carried out by a gang of experl' who l.ravelled in the train containing the notes, and who took note of whore thev were stored.

FI! F.XGII TKAG KD’i . PAR IS. .vi,-i ll 12. I»n Fnglish v,MiDt'n were walking m tin' grounds of tin.' Old (.'hnic,'in nt llvercs, nonr Tnnli'ii. when they suddenly <:iim* 111 ><in two bodies. til;:t iif n ■>;:<11 shot through tins heart. and I lint of n woman shot tlircingh tin.' ti'injili'. \ son roll of tin- woman's l-n iitl!*:i>j; disclosed that they were two lovt-rs. who came to Ilveres for tlnvi.‘ weeks’ li'.ilitliiy. They exhausted tlii.'ir money nml tin'll decided to suicide. fn n diary imdr the iliilo April Kith wits Hie laconic entry '‘Head!" 111!. C'ARTKR . (A I i:< i, April IT Hr. Garter is now mill'll heller nun is aide to go "Ml. His illness was due to worry over Lord Cnnuirvon’s dentil. I.OXDOX. April 12. The lute Lord Carnarvon directed in his will Unit he wns not to" he hnried in Herbert Ynnlt. but thut his body wns to lie taken in a hill overlookin'! Hi Slide re. which has been a he "eon hill since the Armada. A FRKXCTI PROPOSAL. (Received this ‘dnv at 3.30 ii.i.n.) PARIS April IM. “I.e .Matin" says that At. Poincare is submitting to Al. Puis and .M. .Inspar a complete reparation plan linked with the Allied debt. He proposes to surrender to the United Stales, in payment of the Inter-Allied debt, part nl the eig.hty-tvo million gold marks included under Herman C. Ronds provided for under the London Agreement of 11)21. aho priority for Krench and Udeiau (hunts on A. and 11. Ronds. leaving Fngland a, share ol the C. Ronds. Al. Poincare suggest iug that I' raine and Belgium take the chief share of the forty thousand million "old marks cash which Germany announces she is willing to pay. The. payments must he tuule within :i decade and he under three heads, viz. (l> To Prance. (2) to 11a Iv, .)ujxo-Slavia and Roumania. ■ !>V to Belgium ; and also suggests that Kranee and Belgium .should take the first for tv thousand million of the A. and IS. Ronds and Fngland the rest. F.nglaml accepting payment til Frame s debt in German (’. Bonds. Shou.d the plan he adopted France will consent ta the iiUemntiouaiiziition ol the Ruhr and Rhineland under the League of Xations’ Conimission. The ‘‘.Matin" .stales the plan is reinforced by the approval from Lunion and is in accord with the Lclgutu view s. C'APTATX AAIFXHSFX. (Received this day at S.Ao a- I ' l -) XOMl'l (Alaska - ). April 12. Capt. Amundsen leaves on Saturday. I,v dog-team, for Waiuwr.gut 111 Arctic Ocean, to prepare lor '•lie lli^ht