BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1923, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION. A TRAGIC ENDING. ROME, August 5. Twenty-nine years ago. Angelo Quarto, a well-known brigand, was sentenced to forty years’ imprisonment in Sardinia and dining parole periods ho 1 " met Ignazia Maudris, daughter local landowner, and they carried on a clandestine attachment. Quarto was recently pardoned and when released he went, to the girl’s house and asked for her hand in marriage. The parents were shocked and refused.

The sumo night the girl smuggled Quarto into her room and next morning the couple barrackaded tlie door, refused ejectment and filed upon the police with revolvers, wounding one. When the door was forced Quarto was found shot dead and Iguazia fatally wounded. RELATIVE PROPORTION. LONDON. Aug. L . Mr Guinness, in reply to a question ii: the House of Commons said the proportion of military forces per million of civilian population in Lh*Tf ain \ as 2,300; in France 12.400: in Belgium lti.OOO; in Russia 0.200, and in Japan -11X10. BAD WEATHER AT SYDNEY. SYDNEY. Aug 6. Heavy weather and persistent rain continues. The Jockey Club’s races were postponed. MISSION TO AUSTRALIA. BRISBANE. Aug 0. A Japanese ik*lo;gation under Count Yosliii, composed of six members of the House of Peers, has arirved here, with the object of observing the social and economic conditions, and to encourage friendly feelings, and indirectly to promote trade. Count Yosbii declared that Japan had the very best feeling for Australia. The efforts "made in stir up had feeling w ere entirely wrong. Japan was for peace, brotherhood, and goodwill.