MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1923, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AM) N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. A FRENCH TRAGEDY. PARIS, 'August; 12. In a. hospital at Angers Madamo Ynux heard her dying twenty-year-old son retract the statement, made over a year ago, which branded her as tho murderess of her husband. The son declared lie was fold that if he did nob accuse his mother ho would ho imprisoned ns as accomplice. When the confessioin was finished the mother kissed her son in forgivc-

Sergoant-Major Vaux was shot In His home at’ the beginning of 1922. Relatives suspected tho wifo and both tho son and his little sister gave evidence that their mother, after » qua,el, shot her husband and arranged the revolver to simulate suicide. The mother was acquitted at the Assizes, but her character was ruined and life became unbearable. Her son, at the point of death, confessed that his father committed suicide.

AEROPLANE CRASH

PAULS, Aug. 12

Poulain. a famous French war pilot, and two American passengers were killed bv the crash of an aeroplane near le Bourgei.

“DAILY HERALD’S” VIEW

LONDON. Aug. 13

The “Daily Herald” (Labour) in supporting the proposed Empire Labour Conference* in London in 1924, lio|x*k that an Empire Labour organisation will he the outcome, and adds: “This would not clash with the idea of international solidarity or be a substitute foi the federation we dream of. which will he world-wide, hut It would he u stop towards it.”

A LUCKY GAMBLER

PARIS, Aus 12. M. Vagliand, :i Greek, broke the bank at the Deauville Casino, winninK ■2,000,000 francs.

ON GALLIPOLI.

LONDON, August 12.

The Constantinople correspondent of “The Times” reports that Sir .Tames -Vilen spent two days on Gallipoli- De visited almost all the cemeteries amt is well satisfied with the work done. Of thirtv-two monuments fourteen have been completed as far a * tho m a son rv is concerned, and tho others are half finished, with the exception of the vast Imperial memorial at Cape Hellos, which is expected to bo ready hv Anzac Day, 1921. _ 'it is hoped that tho big Nev. Ze land plinth of Ghanak Bair will completed in eight weeks tune. The designs generally are considered worthy memorials of a S rcafc arm 9* DOCKERS’ STRIKE. LONDON, Aug. 13The foreign shipowners are now negotiating with the dockers on strike to return to work. They are offering the men tho pre-strike wages, instead of a cut.