BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1923, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PRINCE OF WALES. LONDON, Aug. 8. The Prince of Wales has returned to London after an enjoyable week-end at Le Touquot, where ho indulged in senbathing and goli'. COWES REGATTA. LONDON, Aug. 7. Tho King’s yacht Britannia won the Royal Yacht Squadron prize at Cowes Regatta for a race over a course of 40 miles for yachts of 50 tons and over. CANCELLED APPOINTMENT. LONDON, Aug. 8. The Foreign Office lias received official intimation that the Soviet has cancelled M. Rakovsky’s appointment to London, as head of tho Russian trade delegation. SEDUCER SHOT DEAD. ROME, Aug. 8. Behind the shooting of a railway official by three men, as he was leaving his c office* at the chief railway station at Rome, lies ta poignant story of a 20 years’ wait by throe brothers to avenge their sister’s honour. One is a Colonel in the army; the second is a prominent engineer, and the third a Viterbo lawyer. Twenty years ago the dead man, Emilco Meto, seduced their sister, Oarlotta. She suddenly came across Meto in Rome last week, and she summoned her brothers to the city. They asked Meto if he intended to remedy the wrong. Meto replied that he had a wife and child elsewhere. The brothers then drew their revolvers mul tired, and they kilted Meto. Seventeen bullets were found in his body.

TRANSPORT WORKERS.

LONDON, Aug. 8.

The annual report of the Transport ■and General Workers’ Union states the membership exceeds 390,000. The contributions total £345,00(1. The union has financed seven members of Parliament. By supporting political expenditure, it had obtained important industrial improvements. The union had pursued a policy of negotiation tmd had not encouraged headlong strikes. THE BISLKY DECISION. LONDON, August 8. Cheylesmore discussing tbc decision of tho Bis ley Committee to reduce the size of bulls eyes, said the ltillo Association was compelled to take up the question owing to the extraordinarily good shooting during the recent competition. Alterations would not he finally approved until October. CORONER’S Ot iNION. LONDON, August 8. At an inquest at Durham Gaol, after tut execution, the corner declared that capital punishment was no deterrent to crime. He favoured flogging and penal servitude, in preference to the barbarous system of executions. What the murderer really dreaded was not death but pain. EMPIRE TRADE. LONDON, August 8. The British Empire Producers’ Organisation has forwarded a dum to the Government urging the importance of adequate representation of tne non-self-governing parts of the Empire at tho Imperial Conference. .The chairmen staites the organisation is strongly of opinion tnat the future of industry is indissolubly bound up in the successful development of the whole Empire. t.;ttVKRNMENT OFFER. LONDON, August 7. Tn order to encourage the use of thirty-hundred weight motor lorries, fitted with pneumatic tyres, the War Office offers to subsidise purchasers of approved British vehicles to tho extent of forty pounds yearly, the Government having the right to repurchase the lorries in times of stress at fixed prices. N.Z. PORT DUES. LONDON, August 7. The Chamber of Shipping has issued an additional statement regarding port dues, pointing out that ill several New Zealand ports the port charges exceed the stevedoring expenses, sometimes being nearly double and also that a steamer calling at six New Zealani ports' find to pay £7OO for pilotago while another calling at four points paid £3lO. In practically every case the heaviest item in the port charges is pilotage, except at Wellington, where a voluntary coasting pilot does for twenty to twenty five pounds a service for which the official charge exceeds sixty. A LONELY SCULPTOR. LONDON. August 8. An e.-ci-nt!ie nld man, a clever mounnicnt.nl sculptor, who had lived alone - for 20 years, became suddenly ill in a London suburb, and had to call in a doctor, who ordered his removal to the hospital. Tlie sculptor, objecting to this, barricaded himself in a room, and when the police forced an entrance, they found the man lying naked and unconscious before his unfinished statue of Christ.

DYING WOMAN’S AIR TRIP. LONDON, August S. A woman, who was slowly dying from sin incurable disease in London, conceived n desire to die her own house in Brussels. She was therefore conveyed thither in a specially-fitted aerial ambulance, accompanied bv a doctor and a nurse.

POLAND’S FRONTIER. {Received this day at 9.2.3 a.in.) WARSAW, August 9. Despairing of their governments in Lithuania and Poland ending the state of war officially, existing groups of peasants along the Niemeu frontier made their own peace treaty and agreed that tho frontier should lie in tiie middle of the river Niemen, where there are a number of fertile islands. The peasant negotiators agreed that Kovno and Warsaw were far away and neither Government would teed their cattle, so they foregathered and apportioned ,t he islands. Foaco now reigns. The guards only 1 unction is tho"hauling of tho Lithuanian and Polish children out of the Niemen when thev fall iu.