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Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN ANI) N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. COMM EXISTS IX CONGRESS. LONDON. June 27. Tie ".Morning Po-i” stsates :—Despite. two Labour Congresses having voted against the Communist Party's affiliation, this has not dismayed the Communists, who want to enter the Labour movement, m order to destroy its belief in Parliamentary institutions. In 1922, two Communists attended the Congre,s. To-dav 28 were present, and their leader boasted that there would he ibll Communists in 1921. All of them attended as accredited trade union delegates. Even the executive had to retreat before t.he Communists at to-day's Congress, on the Executive’s motion to strike out the rule declaring tluit, no person shall he eligible who belongs to any organisation supporting any parliament at y or municipal candidates, except such as endorsed by the Labourites, It is little use to refuse affiliation to the Communist Party. The individual Communists can enter by another door.

MILITARY HORSEMANSHIP. LONDON. J| >!K‘ ‘JPi ( aptain de Laissardiere, a Frenchman, won the King’s Cup in the jumping competition at. the International Horse Show at Olympia. I, nut tenant Lomoine, another EremTima n, was second, lirinsh officers took third and fourth places. IRISH IMMIGRANTS. IJ )N DON . .1 mu* gb. lelegrnm- from Australia -tate that Mr Brine. Federal Premier. denies that fri-ii people are being t whaled from till* benefits of the migration si heme, and that lie slates no dt-i lamination is being exercised. Mr Edgar, a \ n-totaan I.e-zi-J.i.t ive Councillor, who has been interesting himself in this matter, describes Mr Bruce's statement as being somewhat ingenious, inasmuch that there bn* been discrimination, which only lately has been discontinued, Mr Edg nr quotes oflieial eorre-qinn- | deuce, showing that the Lister Government had discovered shortly after the Empire .Settlement Ae was passed, that tin North Irish applications were being rejected by the Australian Migration Department. Negotiations between the I. Istcr Ministry of Labour and the Australian authorities, however, had resulted in Irish applications r.ow being dealt, with, in a way precisely similar to the British ones. The Lister Government provides Co Ills towards each passage through the overseas settlement committee.

COXSL.MI.TIOX (.THE. LONDON, June 2ti Melbourne papers have reached London referring to Doctor Maekedde's letter in "The Lancet," on tile third of .May. These stall* that Dr .McPherson said he had no knowledge ol any commission being given Dr MaeKeddie to inve-tigute the Spahlinger treatment. Dr MaeKeddie, however, produces a letter of January 21 h signed by Dr Mael’llerson. with tin* Premier’s recommendation that Dr MaeKeddie be authorised to make inquiries. Dr MaeKeddie says lie refrained from making any eornmunieal ion except to the medical press, but alien a Melbourne paper refers to Dr Spahlinger’s imsines- acumen, t lie jmf.iie should he fold that Dr Spahlinger hitherto has not charged a penny for the sera and vaccines he distributed. One Englishman hail helped Dr Spaklingei with a gift of e|2,d !(), yet Dr Spahlinger already lias spent bis father's furhme, and is up to his eyes in debt, owing to the cost of his research work. The Commonwealth's I'HO.l'tlii would not even make him solvent. This doe., not suggest cupidity. As regard- the ae j eusatinii that it is a secret remedy. Dr McKeddie points out that it lakes four | \ ear. to make till- I,e(■ me the i process is at.,,Kills, and exceedingly! technical. Dr Spahlinger feared that if he published the details of its production. it might got. into the hands of unskilled or unprincipled manufacturers, .Moreover, such autlmrii ios as Drs Clive Riviere and Leonard Williams have advised him not to publish the details of his methods. Dr Spahlinger had never claimed that la* was a doctor. Ileis a bacteriologist.

SEVENTY ROYS RUBIED. OKLlir, June 2d The Calcutta Orphanage was founded thirty years ago. fi was situated in the busiest Indian portion of the city. Originally it was a oltc-storey building, hut recently if was decided to add a second storey, and the const melon work had almost been completed, when the whole collapsed. About seventy hoys weir buried in Ihe tailing debris. The tire brigade was immediately on the scene, ami succeeded in rescuing sonic. THF REBEL M A KITE. WANTS INQUIRY. this day at 10.10 a .lit.) CAPETOWN, June 27.' Tito rebel commander. Moritz, in a statement to the press from the Laurence Marques, denies tile accusation that he took moneys or material belonging to the l nion (i o\ et nmeni. ITe declares that on several occasion.- he prevented his men from ftghilng ami

as-erts that when he surrendered lumen to general Ys ndi-veilter. t '.if hitler told him that General Smuts '.ranted to know whether he "a- picpared to take up his position again, hut gave him the option of leaving tlie country.

Moritz now asks for an inquiry. ORPHANAGE DISASTER. (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) DEI.II I. .lime 27. Thirty-nine dead have been reeoveied from ( a lent t a orphanage. Eourteen are still not aeeounted tor. Ihe collapse oeeitrretl without the sligntest warning, just alter the boys were dismissed to their dormitnri.'.- from prayer- . TEA SALES. DEI.II r. .tulle 27. At Calcutta tea sales there was a good demand for all classes at higher rates, especially Pekoe, Soitckotig, fanning' and dusts el good quality which were three to six pice deared. Orange Pekoes, wit limit tip. were neglested. three to six pice easier. ANOTHER OUTBREAK. (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) ROM E, June 2d A violent new eruption occurred today near the summit on the south side of Mt. Kina. The outbreak was plainly visible with the naked eye from Catania.

Profes.-or Carrara reports that the new flow of lava is progres-ing at the rate of more than half a mile, and it is now feared that the Observatory habeen overwhelmed. CARSON'S HUMANITY. • LONDON. June 27. Lord Carson, at a Mansion House meeting in aid of Southern Ireland loyalists, said:—"God knows polities nro dead in my heart. My politics now are common humanity, nothing else.”

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