MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1923, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. HOME LABOUR PARTY. LONDON. June 30. Mr Landbury opposed, on behalf of the Executive of the Labour Party, a . motion tit the Labour Conference, doclariug the Royal Family was no longer necessary as a part of the British constitution. ll© said: “I am a Republican. I alaa vs have advocated Republicanism: but our Executive are strongly divided ou this subject. Anyhow, why should V.,* fuel about a question that is of no carthlv importance, and which wilt * settle itself 'i f used to think that t.ho monarchy and the nobility were the people who kept the workers poor, hut now I realise that it is the capitalist system. I have sat at the same table with the Prince and the Owen. I have sat behind two of the Princes at a football match. Take it from me, they y are iust ordinary clay, like anyone else. They talk as you do. only a little worse. When you get tile social revolution, the question of Kings and Queens and Piesidents will settle itself. At present all the Labour members of tho J* House of Commons have taken an oath V t*> the King and the Constitution, as by *- lsw established.” The motion was rejected by an overwhelming majority. INDIANS’ SCHOONER ASHORE.

SUVA, July 2. T An uusual South Sea romance is being enacted here. The American auxiliary schooner Manna, of i 3 tons, which has been lying at Suva somo months, was recently acquired by Captain Johnson, holding an American certificate. On Saturday documents were issued by the Grahame Company and C. Maun "for the arrest of the ea]>tnils, as an absconding debtor. After the warrant was issued. Captain Johnson paid the amount due. and subsequently obtained a clearance ot the ship for Pagopago, with “no passengers or cargo.” f \Yln*n outside tho reef, the Manna took aboard a number of Indians, who, it is reported, bought the vessel under an agreement that the ship should be«onio".lohuson’s ou their being landed Jr in Chile. A Suva lookout to-day reported that the Manna was anchored near a reef a*. Buga, and later was on the reef, with a heavy list. A cutter was standing by. ' The Government steamer Pioneer leaves at 4 o’clock to-morrow morning for the purpose, it is rumoured, of arresting the captain for making a falso declaration in the clearance papers. It is said that there are 40 persons aboard the schooner. MANAGING EDITOR OF THE “DAILY TELEGRAPH.” (Received this clay at 11.45 a.m.) J LONDON, July 2. ' Mr Le Sage, has received tho following letter:—“The King learns with regret. that after over sixty years connection with the ‘Daily Telegraph” you are retiring. Your record must surely be unique in journalism. His Ma,c*siv desires to wish you many years t*t happiness and good health in your well darned rest..”

RUSSIAN AFFAIRS

VI.A 1)1 YOSTOCK. July 1. The Soviets have overcome the last White resistance, capturing without bloodshed. R>o men who have been operating in the Okhotsk district. NEW YORK. July ‘2- jr Some 5*2(1 men, women and children, On* remnant of the Russians’ White Army and Navy have arrived at San Francisco, in a United States Army transport, after two years spent in seeking a home.