MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. BI [ELMS CATHEDRAL. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) PARIS, July 17. It is estimated that unless further funds are roeeived, it will take fifty r " years to restore Rheirns Cathedral. It will cost IL2 million francs to repair the damage. Two million francs have been expended yearly since the Armistice, hut the work has hcen confined to clearing away the wreckage to make way for the new construction. It is expected the great nave will he restored in two years, whereupon work will be commenced on the tower.

ITALIAN POLITICS. ROME, July 17. Following Mussolini’s remarkable oration wherein lie hinted at a dissolution of the Chamber if the electoral reform hill wore ohstrueted, the Chamber passed a vote of confidence in the (ioverninent hv 308 votes to 130. A motion approving of the general principles of the liill was adopted by 285 votes to 139. Seventy-seven members did not vote. CR.VKi AND COSO RAVE. LONDON. July 18. Arrangements have been made for Sir James Craig and Air Cosgrav-e to meet in London to discuss a number of outstanding questions between Northern Ireland and the Free State, notably regarding railways running through both territories; also measures for dealing with animal diseases, but there is no mention of the boundary question. BETTING COAIMISSIOX. LONDON. July 18. Tlie Controller of the Telegraph Department giving evidence before the Betting Committee said thirty-six million telegrams were received annually, two and a half million being counc.-t----ed with horse racing, 'fen per cent of the press telegrams related to horse racing. During the eoal strike there was a very large increase in the racing telegrams BA I l’l RE ASSOCIATION • (Received this day at 12.’2d p.m.) CAPETOWN, July 17. Smith African branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association has issued ail invitation to delegates ol the British Dominions Association to visit South Africa in September, 1924. Twelve* invitations were issued to I oiled Kingdom, eight to Canada, and Australia, four to New Zealand, and two to Newfoundland. It is proposed to make a grand tour of the country and visit all the principal mining and agricultural centres and places of I'.i.s--torical interest.

, ELECTION OR senator. (Received this day at 12.2 d p.m.) NEW YORK, July 17. At St. Paul’s, Johan son was elected to the Senatorship with a probable majority of forty thousand. INDIAN DEBATE. (Received this day at 12 Id p.m A DELHI. July 17. The Assembly debated an unofficial resolution moved by an Indian member, in favour of an Appointment Committee to consider the question of a continuance of a financial grant to the League of Nations, as a protest against the treatment of Indians in mandated territories and Pacific Islands, leaders of Nationalists and Labourites, both former representatives of the League, arid other members strongly opposed the resolution stressing the usefulness of the League, and pointing out that recent Labour legislation in India was largely due to the effort of the international Labour organisation forming part of the machinery of the League. They considered the resolution premature, misconceived and that the interests of coloured races were libel - to suffer if India withdrew from the League. The motion was withdrawn.

LOCVATN LIBRARY BLESSED. BRUSSELS. July 17. Cardinal Mercer blessed the new library building at Louvain m the presence of Prince Leopold and a distin pushed assemblage