NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1923, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

A YERY GERMAN IDEA

STRASBOURG, July I

Some German traders have Ini upon „ d.-viev Lr mok-ng money throrg!i ii-.,. drpie: .in ion oi Go moil.. ’I be; have advised tlu-ir Alsatian t orrespanJiii.s l 1 send their l< Hers uii-iampcd. but to in-i-r! inside the envelope a a,-!i 50 ciiitinies stamp. I* poll rei ■ iv.lig Hu- on-tamped letter ftirinans have l» pay 600 mark-, but os the oil rent i Hies -lump r.-pi esiiii - 1,000 marks, they make .3.100 prolii. SAIL-;AGE SECRETS. R CSSF.I.S, July 1. Excitement has been caused in Ike Clmrieroi ili-H iet by the arrest- of a lior-c slaughterer named Dernello on a elm,'go of trafficking in meat unlit I'm human t uiisiiiiipt ion. Ihe tteeu.set. b light for the price oi I lie 'kills the bodies of animals vvlinli hud died I ism disease. Alter the Having, Is alleged that the He- b was placed in brine and sold to pork butchers all over the country, by Whom ii wa - w-vd for making sausages. Alanv- hiindrcdvvcights of sail meat and sausages have been seized by the police in Antwerp, Ghent. ( harleroi. and other towns, and a butcher ol (,'bent tins also been arrested.

c;AC RED RELIC FIGHT

ROME, July 1

A telegram from Catania to the tor i-ierc d’ltalia states tiiat an air .vpiailn,u lias been placed at the di-pw-nl ol Hie authorities for use either to: i* i,„oilring purposes or for conveying relief to the districts afiecled. 'The Aloudo reports that at Umgu.-.-a procession of 3,003 people today tuliovved the staff said to have i-ehmg.d t.i Si. Egidio. the patron satin i f H e district, to whom i- attributed the miraculous power of arresting the 0 [ lava. The staff formerly beI,| u, Catania hut was stolen from there and has si me been kept by the inhabitants of Lingua-glossa. The latter state that several ( astiglionians in the procession, whom th.yv suspoeted of wishing to steal me ' la -i suddenly threw themselves on the has-i-lsti and Carabinieti who "vie guan - ine the sacred relie and took it from them. A scuffle ensued, in the course of which one Fnseista was injured The bishop exhorted the crowd to remain calm, but their attitude became so threatening that the C’arabinieri wore compelled to charge in older to disperse them. _____