BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1923, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. REBELS DEFEAT SPANIARDS^ I'*- 1 '*- MADRID, June 1. The Spanish Foreign Legion Is returning here to receive .the colours from the King and Queen, who landed at Algecirns yesterday from Morocco, but who had to return hurriedly to Melilla, owing to the news of a serious Spanish defeat at the hands of the rebels when many officers and men were killed. CONSERVATIVE WINS. LONDON, June 1. The Berwick election resulted: Mrs PhHipson 12,000 Captain Robson (Lib.) 5,858 Oliver (Lab.) 3,968 GERALD BEVAN DIVORCED. LONDON, June 1. Mrs Sevan, wife of Geraid Bevan, who was recently convicted for the City and Equitable Insurance frauds, was granted a divorce on the ground of her husband’s desertion and misconduct. The respondent did not defend tho action, but he admitted to a solocitor’s clerk that he committed misconduct in Paris.

ABOLITION OF ALLOWANCE. t LONDON, June 1 The High Commissioners and AgentGenerals are discussing • plans to submit, to the wool buyers with a view to the abilition of the draft allowance of a. pound per hundred weight. A TRAITOR RETURNS. CAPETOWN, June 1. General Maritz, tho famous rebel who went over to the Germans with 4 his troops at the beginning of the war, has arrived at Beira from Germany on u Dutch liner. In the course of an interview lie said lie was tired of exile and was ready to submit himself to the authorities. He wished only to get home in furtherance of the ideal of a united people, who could help England to maintain her position as a great world power. It is not known what course the Government will adopt, but it is believed that if Maritz enters the Union, the law will take its course. BOLSHEVIK AGENTS CONVICTED. DELHI, June 1. The trial has concluded at Peshawar of tlio Indian Bolshevik agents. A,* tho prisoners were convicted except one. CYCLONE CREATES HAVOC. DELHI, June 1. A cyclone, which caused the loss cf tho Okara in the Bay of Bengali, ereated great havoc, in the seaport town, ami Cox’s Bazaar in the Chittagong District.

The area affected is about two hundred square miles, and about twentyfive' thousand people are homeless. Three thousand cattle and tliice men were killed. All fuod, grains, seed and ploughing implements on the embankments were washed away. DEPUTIES ASSAULTED. PARTS, June 1. Fifteen young Royalists carried out the assaults on the Deputies, who are anti-royalists. Deputy Alartel had his face covered with tar and was compelled to drink castor oil. ROCKFELLEIUS GIFT. LONDON, June 2. The King in laying the foundation stone of the Obstetric Hospital, added: “The Trustees of the Rockfcllcr Foundation wore largely influenced by the fact that the unit system of medical teaching, established by the University Coliege, whereby the chief branches of medical education were under thoso heads who could devote the whole of their time to the teaching of research in hospital practice. 'Huh is a substant;',l development in the tradition of the British system which entrusts tho elir.kal teaching to doctors who me also private practitioneis. PRTNCFSS POCAHONTAS. LONDON, June 2. Interest is maintained in the search for tho remains of Princess Pncnhontns. It transpires bones in the Graves- f end Churchyard were disinterred 30 years ago when the present church was erected On tho ruins of a former Gothic Ciiurch. The bones were thrown aside, under the ■ impression that they wore those of animals. The village children sold many to rag and hone merchants in exchange for balloons and paper windmills. When it was discovered that they were the bones of human beings, there was a great hue and cry. All that were recovered were hastily reburied in the churchyard. Mr Pycraft-, of the British Museum, has declared that Lord Curzon’s suggestion that the searchers were disturbing the graves was utterly silly. Ho says : It is absurd to imagine that a search of this description would bo carried out to the extent of disinterring the coffins. The skulls and hones examined already have been uncovered for years. Wo are replacing them more decently than they were before.

POCKET WIRELESS. LONDON, June 3. The latest wireless invention is a listening-in set contained in a matchbox. It • has a 10-mile wave length. The complete set can he carried in one’s vest pocket. It is being sold for 2s. To connect the apparatus it is only necessary to attach a piece of flexible wire, which, when trailed across a room serves as an aerial. Earthing is obtained by connecting a piece of picture wire to the nearest gas or water pipe. WHISKY SMUGGLING. LONDON, June 3. The first of the Scottish whisky steamers which started for tho Uniter! States in Deember last, has returned, afte rdisposing of 30.000 cases, whereof it. is reported to have made a profit of £125,000. Tho crew said they anchored outside tho three mile limit, and American smugglers, some of them in the craziest boats afloat, but mostly in fast motors cae alongside. They hastily loaded a hundred eases, or whatever they could carry, and made off for their secret landing places. Gangs of bootlegging pirates infested the waters, and attacked somo of the Scottish vessels,