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Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1923, Page 3

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BRITISH l FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. BRITISH RHODESIA. LONDON, July 12. A White Paper, issued to-night states that tile British South Africa Company will bo paid three and three-quarter millions sterling on the first of October, the date on which responsible government will be introduced in Southern Rhodesia ; also a further sum in respect of Northern Rhodesia.

The company will hand over all public works, buildings and unalienable lands. It also agrees to forego its rights to all lands in Southern Rhodesia, except estates, farms and ranches which arc being developed. The company has been operating in Rhodesia for thirty-three years with a capital of nine millions and has not paid a single dividend.

SENTENCED TO DEATH

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) PARIS. July 12

Three soldiers have been sentenced to death by an Orleans Courtmnrtial for the attempted murder of an officer mi the night express between Nancy and Pari-. They were deserters and hoarded the train with the intention of robbery ami fixed upon the officer whom they brutally attacked, and whom they flung, in an unconscious condition, out of the carriage window. The officer has recovered.

LONDON' MURDER. LONDON, July 12. At the trial for murder, of Mason, arrested on the 23rd. of May, the defence took the form of accusing Vivian of being the murderer. Counsel for tilt* defence alleged Vivian was in the taxi with Mason, and fired the .shot which killed Dickey. Cross-examined, Vivian admitted the only work he had done this year was house-breaking. He was sentenced to 15-months in January for breaking into a flat armed with a revolver. He said Mason deliberately planted canridges in his house the morning after the murder. Witness was abed suffering from poisoning, due in Lad sardines at 11n* time of the murder. Counsel for the defence said \ ivian's illness was feigned. Vivian arranged to meet Mason at Brixton. While waiting. Mason saw a scullle between \ ivinn and Dickey, and heard shots, lie ran away. Later lie helped \ ivinn to get away. The hearing was adjourned.

FOR NEW ZEALAND. LONDON. July 12. The Coi'inllnc. bound for New Zealand. carries 12 families whose members number 210. Thirty-four domestics, half of whom are Scotch arc also aboard. TROUBLE IN ITALY. GOVERNMENT DE( REE. /Received this day at !>. to a.m.) LONDON. July 12. The 'Daily Telegraph" publishes a message from its Rome correspondent which has neither beginning nor end, it apparently having been censored. The portion passed deals with the public horning ot‘ new-gapers as a protest against the anti-fascist campaign aid proceeds“Miissolini's paper “Popolo D'ltulia” scathingly denounces Senator Albertine, the chief proprietor ot the “(orriero Delia Sena." and threatens that if the anti-Fascist campaign continues, the paper will be rallied and the machines destroyed. Since October "Corriere’’ lias criticised what it describes as an excess ol Ui fc< ts ot the Fascist Government.

A later message announces laui the Government lias issued a donee e-lab-lishing a mild cenxur-diip over the foreign press and also a 11 1 “" provision dealing with the Italian pres-. Senators anil deputies arc debarred from the management ol any periodical publications. I’ivfects arc given the right to admonish I lie editors, especially it guilty of publishing lalsc and exaggerated reports, tending to disturb the pence or interfere with Ihr Government's diplomatic action: articles inciting (las. hatred or disonedielHo to the law, or insults to the KingPope, religion, iousti tiited aullentic-. nr friendly States are forbidden.

t IVII. AVIATION. vllfieivetl this day at 8.30 a.to.) LONDON. July 13 The report of the directorate of civil aviation shows for the second consecutive year no passenger was killed on the regular air services, and 11,.Kit) passengers were carried, double the number for the previous yeai. New devices include -i sound locator telling the direction in which tin aeroplane is approaching when u cannot he seen : a tog beacon with

an intense red Haute lor pentrat ing m's, electric cable, underground for indicating the latiditlg--1 rack to an aeroplane which cannot set the landing place.

EGYPTIAN'S .MURDER

INQUEST EVIDP.NCI

LONDON. July VL At the inquest on. AI i Kernel, his ■cretary, Kttidennny, stated the de-

cea'fils' ago was His income was fortv thousand sterling. He married a Blench widow at Cairo in December, and arrived in London on the first oi July. The couple lived most unhappily and had frequent violent quarrels. The family tried to persuade Alt Kettle! to s ,,ett:(• a separation. On Monday, there

v, as a violent dispute. The wife intended leaving next day for Paris to undergo an operation. Ihe husband wished her to remain in London. On Monday night the deceased complained to witness that his wile had refused to onon )>o|- bedroom door. Witness was later awakened hy the telephone. a lady's voice sawing: “Come quickly I 1 have shot Alt. I do not know how I did it."

The secretary also said that the couple frequently smacked each ether I lie face. Each had a pistol oil each side of their bed. On Monday they insulted each other in the sight oi the waiters at lunch. They quarrelled still mm-,, violently at supper, after returning from the theatre. Witness said the conductor of the orchestra at the Savoy asked the lady if he would play. She replied : ■ “It is not good, because my husband has threatened to murder me within 24 hours. The inquest verdict was one of wilful murder against the wife.

RUTTING COMMISSION

PARIS. July >3

Bishop AVelldon giving evidence before the Betting Commission said the totmisator was a more straightim-ward system and the State should not dotive revenue from unmoral pi.ietices. A shilling bet was net wrong, but he objected'to people betting when they were unable to afford it. He supported the tax because lie believed it would curtail operations of betting. Canon Green of Manchester, considered there were at least one hundred thousand eases annually where betting causes crime. Betting generally was a fool's game. SMALLPOX. (Received this day at O._o •' ■ l ”'' LONDON. July ,LL Throe hundred small P (, x path lit. have been isolated in Gloucester since the outbreaks. Only forty were never vaccinated, and none ot these within V ) years Thirty-five fresh eases wete reported during the past two days.