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Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. STEAMER .MOLDAVIA. (Received this day at S a.m ' LONDON, June 4. The .Moldavia met with an accident to one propeller shaft and is proceeding with ono engine. She will be nearly a week late in arriving at London, ' but the mails were transferred to the Karamala and delivered to-day. 105 YEARS OLD. LONDON, Juno 4 Mrs Deere died at IJantivito Major, aged ICO years. She prided herself that she had never been more than 20 miles from home and would go to the grave not owing a shilling. SWISS REFERENDUM. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) GENEVA, June I. A referendum to give the Government control of the liquor trade with a view to reducing production, was defeated by 357,000 votes to 25c,000, the majority regarding the proposal as an undue interference with the liberty of the subject. GENEVA, June 1

In the International Association match played at Basle, Germany beat Switzerland by 2 to 1.

WOOL SALES AT ILL'LL. LONDON, June 2. The North-Eastern Railway Company announce that they are desirous of arranging for woolsahs at Hull in the sheds acquired from B.A.W.R.A. and offer attractive terms tor bandling Australian and New Zealand wool. Already 72 wool cargoes, aggregating 300,000 bales, have arrived at Hull this year. EGYPTIAN EXPLORATION FUND. LONDON. June 2. At the request of General Maxwell Hugh Mclntosh (Australia) lias accepted the vice-presidency of the Egyptian Exploration Fund, rendered vacant through the death of Lord Carnarvon. THE INDEMNITY BILL. LONDON, June 2. The Indemnity Bill regarding tho Government's recent deportations to Ireland was read a third time by the House of Commons. FISHING VESSEL SEIZED. TOKIO, June 2. The Soviet administration in Siberia has seized a Japanese fishing vessel and imprisoned the crew of 72 for operating within the seven miles limit. Heretofore fishermen have not been molested outside the three mile limit.

CAPTIVES RELEASED. PEKING. June 2. Tho bandits have unconditionally released four more foreign captives, two Britishers, one American, ami one Mexican, who have arrived at a relief camp at Tsaoehwang. Dispatches state tho speedy release is expected of the' remaining eight foreigners. PRIEST KILLED. MANILA, June 2. Fanatical Moros, including a priest, named Akhara, were killed in a fight with the constabulary :it- Put a- Island. PRINCESS CHRISTIAN. LONDON. June I. The King and Queen will not attend Epsom all the week. The King’s dinner to the Jockey Club lias been cancelled. To-day’s bulletin states princess Christian after a restful night showed a slight, but definite improvement. \ CAPE Rb nn (Received this day at 11.>15 a.m.) Capetown. June i. In tv further interview Beira, exrebel commander Maritz said before lie entered the Union and surrendered to the authorities he wanted an assurance* of some Lind fiom General Smuts for leniency, to which ho thought himself entitled. After eight years exile it was net likely lie was going to cross the border.if he had to spend two years in gaol. OLD LADY’S DANGER. LONDON. June 3. Mrs Brown, of Plymouth, aged 75. went to meet her niece, who was returning from Australia aboard - the Largs Bav. Seeing the girl on a tender, .Mrs' Brown waved her hand excitedly, and she fell into the water. She clung' to a pile, till she was rescued by means of a. rope. She was still gras])in" liu'r liaiuUm" wlion hruu"lit ashore, heiuo- none the worse for her minimsio„r except for tho shock, thougn she nnrrowlv escaped being crushed to death between the incoming tender and the quayside.

lost BY THE MINERS. ■(Received this day at 8.10 a.m.) LONDON. June 3Mr Hodges. Secretary of the Miners Federal io i T spoil king at Nuneaton. miic that the amount m wages uhu-h in miners had given up since July l->-was absolutely staggering, and amounted to £2sP.m>tt.oo:>FAKED ART WORKS. PARIS, June 2 Tim recent reports of the alleged faking of works of art in the Louvre have aroused great interest. I here are reports in circulation that, for years, an organised hand lias been pillaging the more remote French churches io. artistic treasures, which have been removed and faked copies have been substituted. The centre of tho tradeis alleged to he Hie Mont Parnasse quarter. Confirmation of this is given by the action of an art dealer at Mont. Parnasse, who is under suspicion of closing his studio and disappearing. A LOVE TRAGEDY. PARIS, .Tune 3. The dancers in a fashionable restaurant in the Champs Elysccs heard a, shot, and, on rushing out into Cue garden, they found Suzanne, a wellknown mannequin, and her lormer lover, Albert Brillman. , a jeweller, dead. After watching the girl dance, Brillman asked her to go into the garden. When they got there, He snid: “Come back to me!” She replied: “Impossible-” Brillman then ' shot her through the head. A> s m lay on the ground, lie stooped and ; kissed the dead girl's face, and then shot himself. ' STATEMENT C AUSES UPROAR. VIENNA, June 2.

Count Czarniu, speaking in the National Assembliy, created an uproar Insisting on the occasion of Emperor Karl’s abdication and ilight, M. Renner, the ex-Chancellor, asked Colonel Strutt, n British officer, in Karl’s company. to secure.the- occupation of Austria l\v British troops. A DENIAL. (Received this dav at 12.-Io p.mA LONDON. June 1. The “Times” authoritatively denies that Lady Carnarvon, presented tec husband’s entire Egyptian collection to tlio British Museum.