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Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1923, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N'.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION'. TEACHERS FOR AUSTRALIA. LONDON. April ID. .Mr M eCoy, South Australian direc- | tor of education, is engaging GO young teachers for South. Australia. j X.S.AY. LOAN. LONDON. April ID. New South Wales loan is repayable in ID3I-13. Holders of 1.173,1)11!) five per cent in-crihe.l stock and 32(1,000 bond- maturing in July arc invited to convert tinan into an equal amount ill i lie loan, re.-eiving a cash payment of L' i per cent. MINT' ACCEPT WAGE GUT. London. April ip. A .-oni -rence with the Ministry oi Labour, with a view to settling the Dublin shipping strike ended in a deadlock'. Shipping continues idle, and the employers in-i-t that the seamen and firemen hum accept the national wage cut already accepted in England and the north of Ireland. CHINESE AFFAIRS. BEK IX. April 10. j Dr. Sun Yat Sen i- again reported j to be a fugitive. Official circles arc! inl'm med from Canton that Sun Yat Sen hoarded the gunboat. Shell flung Yitig mid has taken over tko G .vern-or-liip of the .Southern provime. N'.S.W. LOAN. LONDON. April ID. New South Wale- i underwriting six millions at lour and a half per :<-ut. issued at iiiiicty-lniii. of which two millions is for conversion. An t (Fit at live per cent i~- v-d at ninely-tive v.rs lejected. SEX INSTRUCTION. LONDON. Apiil ID. The National Birth Rate C-.anmis.-ion with the I‘rosidcnt, the Bishop of Birmingham. and including leading duelers, has | re-vMtcd a report to the Boaid ill' Education to-day. The report recommends s.-x instruction, however difficult and delicate the task, cannot I e shirked with due regard to the moral safety and welfare cf youth-. [t is generally agreed, ii i- impossible rigidly to fix the age al which instruction shall commence. One doctor urged that a hoy of nine was perfectly able lo unde:-land the pliy-iolog:. .1 fact . of maternity. The ('omini--iou did not give a definite ride v.Ti-•:1 1* • i parents or I

teachers should inipnri the knuuLdgc, but- recommended teachers should he adequately trained for tlie purp.se. A NOTALK ARREST. C \ RETOM'N. April ID. \ 'Cnsaticiiid arrest was made at Johannesburg of l-'rauz von. Vellheiin. the hero of one of the most sensational trials in South Africa. He shot the financier, Wcnlf .led. in the latter's cilice in March 1208 and was acquitted ii’ the murder charge on a j.I ■ a of soildefence, but afterwards was ‘-entenred to twenty years in L uulnn for attempting to blackmail S. B. dee!. Me was reLa'cd during the war ami then ini'" i:--,I and repatriated to Germany. It is uiidersloud lie has now been (:• re-l-ed under the immigration law-. A WOMAN RRISON'F.R. ROM E, \pril ID. ( Icthidn ( rav.'iiiii. a Telia woman, is accused of poisoning her -n, daughter and husband and living a life of dissipation on nine hundied ihuusund fi'ancs inherit'd I’roin thou. I lie lay « li-. pi,i;,lined ill IDI'P ion| lla- gill 111 I I'M 7. I'hc v. “luan I icquciu ly seal | ",- ,soil to her husband dining tlm war when lie was in the hospital and al the front, hut it was 1010 I'-elY.ro she accomplished her purpose. FIRE IMS AS 1 Eli IN FACTORY. VIENNA, April If'-. Eleven pci sens won burned in death and eight seriously injured b.v a great celluloid iire in a it it tun factory :U Budapest. AN EGYPTIAN TRIAL. CAIRO, Vpuil 20. ’Lite trial fur mu-dor of lift.cn Egyptians, which commenced in April -'>i!i. continues. The pre-emt i. n detailed a p|;;L which commenced in tic Spring .1 IDJO, when a young Egyptian, aged 18, was met by Slink Shaicl-cl-l’anna who suggested that the youth should join a gang for murdering Englishmen. The youth agreed, and asked a Iriend named Nazir who is one u the tie.-ua-ed. also to join the gang. Later tieyouths found the Sheik was .o-,-point-ing with Ealnny, who was eeuvi.-tod la a vengeame ease in 1020, and <oudeiitued to a long term of iuipri.-on-ment. Meanwhile a man liana d Alahomined Amid joined the minder gang. On May Bth., 1011), a L.imh was thrown at Tai'vish Raslia. A le'. In ms Inter Mohammed Amin was found wit!; wounds on his hands and i.riu. tippa”cntly from an ex; h -ion. In 1021. t' e organisation was known as the “Hind-: Hand," or “Black Revolver Sicicty" j Xa/.ir no February 17. boast■! that, an Englishman would he killed. The following day Nazir was seen near the .Ministry of Education and a few min- j utes later Mr A hired Brown was killed with a revolver. Nazir later boosted that lie and a man named lewiik, shut Brown. The gang later planned the murder of Ander-on. Olienta! So. re-j tarv to the Residency ; hut Hie scheme miscarried. Go April Bit u. 1022. Nazir and Tev.*ilk succeeded in shooting two British oorp.u-als :-t C.-.'-o station. On May 21th. after the murder. Nazi.' boasted that he murdered Bimbassi Cave. EGYPT’S NEW CONSTriTTTON. CAIRO. A; til 20. The King of Egyi't has signed the enrptituti.-n. The jnr.lit.'try g verm rship instituted hy Lord Allenby after the outrage- has been abolished. SETTLEMENT TERMS. LONDON. April 20. Mr Harry German, president tf the Fanners’ I nien. and Mr Go-ling. Labour M.R.. wore mediators in the Norfolk farm dispute. They lia.e reached a provisional agreement m cun net-linn with the strike, w hereunder a wage of 2.3 s per week shall he paid on a guaranteed 30-hour week, plus Oil hour |v to 31 hours, and overtime rates thereafter. The work must oe arranged to provide a weekly halt-holiday. The l In - hire Conciliation Committee has decided to continue till Septeni a minimum wage o! 32s for a ■.)!- hour week. The farmers have b.-come less intractable since the a unoiinc uae lit of reductions in the rating on agriculture. Tliev also are the chief beneficiaries in new cuts in the goods rates, to the extent of <.'9,000.000 annua iv. whiea the railway companies decided to-day would become operative.