MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1923, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. TRTE TO POLE. ABANDONED BY AMUNDSEN. LONDON, Juno IS. Captain Amundsen's brother, who is visiting London, has received the following message from Captain Amundson in Alaska:—“Trial flight lltli. Afay very unsatisfactory. Sorry am forced to abandon proposed Polar flight.” TWO AIEN GAOLED. LONDON, June IS. ’William Horan has been sentenced to five years and John Finn to three years imprisonment. Trio men were arrested during i\ raid in Liverpool last month when the police secured large quantities of machine gun parts and revolver ammunition. Horan is aged twenty years. lie bore documents showing that ho was a commander in the Irish Republican Army in Liverpool. MISSIONARIES CARRIED OFF. PEKIN, June 18 A Hankow telegram slates that 500 brigands maltreated an Italian priest, carrying him off. as well as several hundreds of others. Another hand is reported to have surrounded a British missionary compound at Tsaochih, the women whereof wero previously sent to a safer place, but the men are still maintaining their posts. A LONDON SENSATION. (Received tnis dav at 9.25 a.ni.l LONDON. June 17. Sir Henry Primrose was found near the Albert Afemorial, in Kensington Gardens, early this morning with a bullet wound in hi*: head and a revolver by his side. Ho died a quarter of an hour later. He had been suffering from neurathetiia and insomnia. Ill's nurse discovered his absence from bis bedroom and informed the police. LONDON, June 19. At the inquest of Sir IT. Primrose, a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind was returned. The son gave evidence that deceased suffered from insomnia, following a nervous breakdown. Deceased in a farewell letter to a witness said:—“l know what 1 am about to do will seem unpardonable, but I have lost all hope of recovery from nerve breakdown, which is worse than formerly. I have no fight left and think no treatment of any use. I feel my mind is going away and soon I will ha unable to do any real work, and become a miserable wreck, a misery to myself and to all who care for me. It is" far better to end it at once, shameful and horrible though the process will he Time will dull your pain. (Signed) —Distracted Father.”

empire press union. (Received this dav at 9.25 a.in.) LONDON, June 19. At a meeting of the Council of the Empire Press Union, it was stated that n * representative delegation similar to that which went to Canada would attend thro Imperial Press Conference in Australia, headed by Lord Burnham also Lord Donald, Chairman of the Council.