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Hokitika Guardian, 13 June 1923, Page 3

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SIR AUCKLAND GEODKS’S K.YETUOUBLE. VANCOUVER. May 25. It is officially announced, says a message from M nshington, that the eye trouble, from which Sir Auckland (ieddes (British Ambassador lo Hie United States) is suffering, is the nihuiiinth of a gas attack during the war. Study of the debt-funding agreement aggravated the trouble, which had previously responded easily to brief test-. Sir Auckland Geddes is now uc.nl> blind, and has been ordered to spend several weeks in a darkened ro; m. PAPER PULP MONOPOLY. YANCOFVEE, May 25. Mr Hugh Baker, executive secrtaiy of" the American Pulp Paper Association in a speech at Cleveland to the Association, forecasted Canadian control of the pulp paper industry in America. He said he believed an export duty, and perhaps, a complete embargo on the export of pulp wood from Canada, was imminent, when the exhaustion of United States pulpwood preserves was in sight. 810 PRICE FOR KIPLING.

LONDON, May 21. First editions of Kipling’s works have been auctioned at Sothehy s. \ presentation copy of “Schoolboy Lyrics” fetched £228; “Ph«n> Tales from the Hills.” £08; and lor a collection of newspaper extracts and contributions to Indian and English journals £SO was the final otter. 'the sum of C5«!l was oilVrod bn _n collection of fust editions, hut as t o did not reach the reserve it was decided to sell them separately. for motorists ONLY. NO SPEED LIMIT ROAD. LONDON, -May 30. \ great motor road, about 220 miles long, connecting London. Birmingham Manchester, and Liverpool, on "Inch there would he no speed limit and no police, is the project for which a etmtpanv. headed by Lord Montagu el Beaulieu has been formed, says the “Daily Mail. It is estimated that the vest would he P 15.000.000. If Parliament consent" the work will bo started m September. 1021. and will tie finished m five vears. The road will he styled a -more,-wav”. It will he 50ft wule. and will he divided into two sections for fast and slow traffic. Tho toll ho approximately Id a ion a mile.

HUSH DIVORCE/ PROBLEM. LONDON. April IS • R .th Ulster and the Irish Free State will henceforth deal with such matters as divorce as they see ht. Mr Herbert Z Deane, solicitor, said that ae has been informed that divorce Bills from Ireland will not in future be presented to the British Parliament. The promotion of those Bills was due to the fact that divorce is discountenanced ill Ireland, v.hiei ilargely a Roman Catholic country. Divorce proceedings taken there arc more in the nature of separation orders, the decrees pronounced being inensa et thora (from tied and board). A successful petitioner could not remarry without consent given by the passing of such a Bill.