MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1923, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE "ASSOCIATION. DOCKERS STRIKE. LONDON, August 15. Transport general Workers Union states seventy-five per cent of the dockers in Loudon have resumed work, but most, of the stevedores and lightermen are still holding out. 1M M I (:R ATiOX ST YTI()NS. LONDON, August 15. Sir Auckland Geddes, reporting to Lord Gurzon regarding the Ellis Island immigration stations, recommends the United States Consuls being authorised to refuse visas and passports for those who will obviously be prevented by the law entering America, lie suggests that immigrants should I e either approved or disapproved in tnoir home country. After an examination of the system of administration the report concludes tbat. it is impossible to ; dminister the immigration stations under the existing United States law without hardship. The tragedy of detention on Ellis Island must be hateful for till possessing any sensibility.

SOVIET CRITICISED. STOCKHOLM, Aug. 15 The Municipal Workmen’s Congress has resolved unanimously to ‘ protest against "the terror, dictatorship, and persecution of the working class in Russia.” LOAN FOR DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Aug. 15 The Danish Government is borrowing ‘J0,030,000 dollars front the National t’-itv Company of the United States, at 6 per cent. The loan is repayable in JO years. BRITISH. GOAL OUTPUT. LONDON. Aug. 15. The output of saleable eoal in Britain for the (|narter ended June 30th. last, totalled sixty-nine million tons, width has not been equalled for tile same quarter since 1913. BRITTS!! UNEMPLOYED. LONDON. Aug. 15. Tile lit. Hon .1. 11. dynes. Labi.tr M.P. at Cambridge dealt with the memplnyinenl problem, and the question ol the licst solution. He declared that it was better to pay -Cl a week in waves for productive work than to ~-ive a dole of 15s a week for ttneaess. Capital efficiency tint be obtained he said, from work, but nothing is obtainable from the payment of relief doles.

ALPINE CLIMBING. NEW ZEALANDERS RECORD, LONDON, Aug. 1 L The Lausanne correspondent of the ■•Dailv Telegraph” reports that a telephone message from Zermatt states that Aliss Lorimer, head of the Girls’ College, Nelson, New Zealand, ascended the Matterhorn in live hours, the -anie record lime as that of Professor St ra ha in. of Londonderry, last week.

A BY-EI.ECTION. LONDON, Aug. U The Porlsiuuuth South by-election resulted: — Mainr K. IE Caw.ei ,( vntive) - Sir 11 onrv Lawson (Liberal) ... Majority AN r.NSTf( KSSI'TI. SKIT. AECKI.AND. Aug. M Before Mr Wilson, S.M.. Joseph /am, liv occupation a tailor, sued Duggan and Duggan, chiropractors, claim--1,,,. C] -j‘( |,expenses arising from ,| negligetd and unskilful treatmont. 1 >l:iinl ilf slated that defendant diagim r-,1 Ins i .unplaiiii as sciatica and admitted that Im did nm complain m Duggan when Ids l real nieiit ended. Tlie Magist rate said that unless med--1 evidence would prove beyond duiihi thin plaintiffs trouble to his hip, was tlio result of the Duggans ireaimeni, plaiuiilf cinihl only succeed in rcc overiug t' e return ol the h'c id lour guineas. fv’ Kenneth MncKeit/.V said that he wmild not say that nres-.ure mi the -pine applied h’v Duggan would aggrathe disease of the hip. hut it would not he beneficial. Dr Carrick Rnh.'rt-on said that /.am was suffering I rum honv accretions round the margin of his hip. 'flic defence "a- that defendant* were (piite willing to reliind the lees, tint thought the case .should go on. Counsel submitted that neither under tin' coin met nor on the ground ol negligence had plaintiff established his ease.

William Andrew Duggan, chiropractor, stated that plaint ilf was advised that defendant could not undertake to give relief unless he had both legs evened no by a special boot, and even

then it was not for defendant to say if (p.. work Would ever Im eonipletp'i owing to the awkward maimer in wh'c , plaini ill walked. Defendant denied that he diagnosed the complaint n* sciatica. The M agist rale raid he was satisfied the treatment had not contributed In the condition of the hip which necessitated an operation. The fees were certainly not excessive. I’lainiilf was non- suit ed.