BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 April 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

[by TKLKdItAI'U —l'Ktl I’IIKSS ASSOCIATION.] POOR CHILDREN ENTERTAINED. I.(IN DON, Ap: il 23 Eight thousand n..or .-ldldreti ill Belfast "were cuter! am d h\ the Duke of York. 01, t Li- c'lildi'ee.’ - beliail' a. telegram was sent wishing lire Duke and hi, bride long life and happiness. to which he replied, wishing them a jolly rfterm,on and all good luck in the future. MAIIK INO OF MEATLON.'DON. April 23 ’lda; Si -1 nding Committee ol the House cl’ Commons is discussing the Merchandise 'larks L'.IE Sc>,..al strong protests wore made against the marking of meat mi the found that it would increase the n>-l and lease delay, and also that the imbdih’.e ink would disfigure tin- meat. Mr Prettyun-.il expressed the Coven,iU,.ill’s willingness to withdraw tho word indelible, and he said the < ostoms aik hold ties thought tney could carrv (O'! the prm islolts of 1 lie Lill v. i'bout delay. xi’E VMKU ASHORE AND DESERTED. CAPETOWN. April 2tl In ~... ~-u.c.( to an f-. 0.5. ea 11 from t j .. Rorlo ■ liner Mossnnicdo.s, homeward hound, which is ashore at

( j,.,,. Frio, t: e steamer Pol l. \ odor proceeded io tile seem- and found the Mi.shammies do. •■ried. The . boats were gone but there "as no sign of the crew or the passengers, numbering

Tim Port Yield' searched for 30 miles up the coast, hut without ■ >’- suit. Other ships are al-.i engaged in searching.

MISTAKEN IDENTITY. PARIS, Ain i 1 2G. Smith, the woodon-lcgged man, is not the alias of Warren hut a separata man whom the police behove is Gm veal loader of a rogues uirporatioii. SUVA PROTEST. SUVA, April 27. At a meeting ol Colonists ot 1' iff this evening at Suva, I lie Mayor presiding, passed a resolution supporting the aeiioii of the elected members protesting against the uiicniixtittil ioiinl action of the Secretary ol State Cominittee on constitutional right appointed and if normally received, the electi»ci mmiibors nuiy resign. HOSPITAL ON FIRE. LONDON. April 26. Extraordinary scenes were witnessed nt Rrigluon, when a lire broke out carlv in the morning in a four-storied Red Cross Hospital. Red-ridden patients were confined to burning rooms : others were rushing about irantieally in their night attire. Alter strenuous efforts, the iiremen, bravely entering the burning room-, rescued the whole of the ininntoi. CZECHS AND HUNGARIANS. BELGRADE, April 2 r, The Czeelio-Slovakian Ministers have | visited the Foreign Minister and in- j formed him of strained relations bo-j tween (V.eiTio-Slovakia and Hungary over a frontier incident, wherein a CmTi frontier guard was inassaired The Czech Government has decided to expel ill* Hungarian subjects residue'’ in Qgecho-Slovakia, and, from April 21, to close the frontiers to all traffic with Hungary. Af. Mintchitch has promised common action on the pari ol the Little Entente. VIENNA, April 2T. Count Apponyi has addressed an interpellation to the foreign Minister., remarking that the Little .Entente is endeavouring to pick a quarrel, and also is resorting to measures in opposition lo the League of Nations Pact, without li ust seeking arbitration. The Foreign Minister's reply said that Hungary has offered to submit the incident to a mixed International Commission. MINK DISASTER. LONDON. April 26. the surface in Trimsur-m colliery, near Llanelly, Wales, in trams., a shackle broke, and a tram ran hack to the bottom of tin* drift. It is believed that eight men were killed and over twenty were injured. (Received this day at 0.-lo a.m.i Later. —Eight were killed outright and two died of injuries in the Trimaran accident. The under-manager was among the killed, also a bov of IT, who had been in the pit only a few days.