BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. SMUGGLING JEWELS. (Received this day at 9.0 a.m.) PARTS, July 27. Great quantities of Russian jewels are coming to E'ranee, Italy and Holland clandestinely. A Jewish pearl merchant recently came to Paris with a diplomatic valise belonging to a small State adjoining Russia which thus escaped the Customs examination. Eater the police questioned the Jew who refused to open the valise, whereupon the police broke it. open and found jewels worth two hundred thousand francs, while precious stones, valued at fifteen hundred thousand, were traced to a safe in a Paris bank where tile Jew had deposited them.

.Most oi the jewels had been stolen from proscribed Russian families and churches.

TOT A EISA TOR BURNT. (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) LONDON. July 20. Two hours before the commencement oi t.he Jersey i-aecs. members of an English gang sprinkled the tntulisuinr with petrol and it was burned to the ground. Usually the totalisatcr dors a good business at Jersey, to the detiinient of Liu* bookmakers.

BETTING TAX ENQUIRY. LONDON. July 20. The Betting Tax Committee has concluded its evidence and is expected to report to Parliament at an early date. N.Z. I.ADI ES t; I FT. T.ONDON. July 2b. Lady Allen has presented Princess Mary with a greenstone ink stand, being the New Zealand women's wedding present. THE N.Z. PAVILION. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 2(5. The contract for the New- Zealand pavilion at the Exhibition costing £25,7:57, has been signed. The building: is to to completed by tin.' beginning of January next.

THE GALLIPOLI CEMETERIES. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON. July 20. After attending the Mandates meeting at Geneva, Sir J. Allen proceeds to Cnsntantiuuple to confer with Sir H. Rnmbold and General Harington. relative to the en.e of Gallipoli cemeteries. Afterwards, in company with colonel Hughes of the Graves Comniistsion he inspects the British cemeteries at Gallipoli, reporting thereon to the War Graves Commission.

APPEAL COURT UPHELD. (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) July 2b. The Home of Lords allintied the Appeal Courts finding, that the ( town tins no prerogative to require the payment of Crown debts in priority to all other creditors. The ease arose out c.t the winding up cJ' Webb and Company. Sniithlield salesmen, who during the war acted as agent for the Rood Cun-t-oiler for the sale and cist • ibution of frozen rabbits, imported under contract with lerlain .‘state Governments of Australia. When the ( unipany went into liquidation it owed the l ontrollor about £10.(100.

NAVAL CONTROVERSY

■,Received this dav at 9.25 a LONDON. July

Tite "Morning Best's' navi l correspondent says a fierce controversy i- >'’tying around the battleship question, which tends an obscure the vital problem of cruisers, which are the tentacles of a battleship. A great air force may save London from annihilation, but. a long sea, lane niusl also he kept open to assure is of our daily bread. At the beginning of the last war wo had a great reserve of obsolete cruisers. and even so. jctiloiisl.v few. Hence, the destruclien wrought by the ■Emilen, Koitigsbcrg and Karlst uho. Iho (.fade routes of the Empire are as long as ever, and the Empire as widely scattered. To meet future requirements we have only two of the Hawkins class, and two of the emerald class being completed leisurely. There is no provision to replace cruisois ten or a dozen years old. The Washington conference* limited the tonnage of cruisers hut not the number, which any nation nta.v build. It behoves us to take a -eritius stock of the situation.

JEWEL THIEVES ARRESTED

(Received this day at 0.0 a.m.) ROME. July 26

As a sequel to the jewel ease l cabled on Bth) Brim e Giistininiii’s elumlIVur has heen arrested near Irie-te with half the stolen jew els v. Inch were hidden in a pair of hoot-. The chauffeur say- the valet suggested robbery, so lie and the chauffeur went to tite bedroom when the Prince and Princess were a-leep and Hie ehaiiiTettr pul padding steeped in ether over the Prince's mouth and the valet did the same to the Princess whotettpou they tK'eame unconscious. then took the key of the safe, stoic Lhe jewels, and caught the first train from Rome. it is believed the valet escaped across tie frontier. A RACING LAWSUIT. (Received this dav at 11.10 a.m.) LONDON. July 26. An unprecedented lawsuit comnieme* to-morrow in connection with Kempton Bark rai l* cabled on 11 111 May. Baum, owner of Iron Ore, is suing Hoary, the jockcv riding (lolly Eves, whom the Jockey Club suspended for three months, in order to recover the value of Iron Ore from Beaty.