MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1923, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.

RAILWAY SMASHES,

HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE

COPENHAGEN, July 8. ]n a railway smash four were killed and fourteen injured. BUCHAREST. July 8. \ pa-tenger train dashed intir a goods train' between Bucharest Jassy, three ears being telescoped. GO persons were killed and 200 injured. CHINESE BANDITS. PEKING, July 8. Bandits held up a train near Canton. A Chinese military officer and a soldier "ere killed in the fighting. Ninety Chinese were kidnaped and held for ransom. Fifty thousand dollars of hot was secured. PARIS, July 8. In connection with toe attack on Af. Caillaux on 11th May. two prisoners were sentenced to three months and four others to a month each, with the benefit of tho first offondets’ act. transporters strike. (Received this day at 8.50 a.inf) LONDON, July 9.

■\ meeting ol th Transportr- at Hull took tin in disorder. Ben Smith was .subjected to continual interjections when lie argued that the dockers’ a-rcoiuent, whether good or had,, must run to the end ol the year. The meeting passed a resolution in latent of a policy of an unofficial strike, adding that the men were willing to turn to work for eleven shillings a day if an inquiry into the cost of living were conceded. ’s!]

A NG LO-CATHODIC CONGRESS. 'Received this day at 8.50 a.m.) - LONDON, July 9. The second Anglo-Catholic Congress opens to-morrow, with a service in ,Saint Paul’s cathedral. The Bishop of London, .supported by twenty Bishops. delegates from Australia, New Zealand and other Dominions and Colonies, will deliver the Presidential address at Albert Hall, for which sixteen thousand tickets have been sold. Bishop Znnyibar, of Kikuyu fame is Chairman of the Congress. High Alass will be celebrated in twenty London churches, where priests will also bo available for confession. AY l: US IT IRON I>KM AX D. (Reeaived this day at 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 9. A big demand for South Wales iron and steel continues, due to the heavy drop in imports of foreign iron and steel. A number of blast furnaces have been relit, though the industry is handicapped by the shortage and high price <'f coke.

AVIATION CRASHES. 'Received this day at 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 9. Aviation crashes throughout tho world during six months, m which 100 persons were killed and 0! injured. FARM TRAINING. LONDON, July 9. Christ'- Hospital opened a farm training branch at the school, with a view to (repaving hoys for farm'work in the Dominions, BOYS' SETT LEAL ENT. '■Received this dav at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, July 9. Mr Vernon Reed, a New Zealand Legislator, is preparing a settlement for beys in north New Zealand, V< war. memorial. (Received this dav at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, July 9. As tho result of a great concert at Albert Hall in memory of French and British dead, three thousand pounds go to Somme battlefields memorial, commemorating every regiment, French British, and overseas Dominions which fought on the Somme.

MEMORIAL TO CANADIANS

(Received this day at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, July 9. The Duke of Connaught unveiled a meorinl to Canadian* "ho fought in the second battle of Ypies. SLEEP MARATHON*. (Received this dav at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON. July 9. At Trieste, two young men won the slept) marathon. They kept awake for 93 hours. PLAN TO EXPORT GRAIN. LONDON, July S. The -‘Daily Express” Moscow correspondent reports M. Krassin, head of the new inmhined Russian Foreign and Internal Trade Department, says its first aim is to place Russian grain on foreign markets. The Soviet is establishing a new State Bank, dealing exclusively with foreign trade. CURRENCY SLUMP. LONDON. July . French exchange real lied as low as 78.59 francs to the pound on Saturday, 1 lie lowest this year. Marks touched I.bVXI.OOt) to the £l. but rei overeil to 9«(I.fVXI. SPANISH THRONE. LONDON. July 8.

The “Daily Mail’s” Madrid correspondent. says: The Prince of Asturias, the Heir Apparent to the Spanish Throne, is suffering from a complaint of the spinal marrow, being unable to walk. The second son, Jaime, from congenital deafness and an impediment In bis speech. The successor t.> King Alfonso, therefore, will have to he his filth child. Juan, who is now 10 years of age, unless the Prince of Asturias recovers.