MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1923, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

ACSTii.ALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. 3.5. I’AKFHA HAS Zui) ABOARD. LONDON, August 20. Two monkeys, one fox, a number ol budgets, civet cats. barbary sheep, ibex and agoutis aic being shipped tiv the s.s. i’akeha. lor the Auckland Zoological Dardens. Six young polar hours ami other heats are also to he shipped shortly. ITALY AND DEFECT.. ROM F. August 23. Premier Mus.-olini has domnuded from t; recce full icpurution and a prompt a.pology for Urn murder of Signor IVlinn, who was asleep in his lodgings v.lu'ii murderers arrived anil slew him. Signor Tclina’s Frcneh and English colleagues escaped luassacrc. Imt they were unable to lender any assi-ianto to the Italians. It is believed .l.e murder was due to Crock anger at the decisions of the Delimitation Commission regarding the boundary, which proved unfavourable to Greece. HOLD lIS AT WORK. LONDON. August 28. Armed gangs of roughs are terrorising Sheffield, and lobbing on an < xtcn.xivo scale, and arc brutally a'-snult-ing ynil bo:it,il',g .atl tat tempting to .-top them. It is estimated that there are at least 200 members in the vat ions gangs. The trouble is made worse because there are frequent lights between the gang- and the police, who are hopelessly outnumbered. As they are unarmed they enmiol meet the men who aro armed with knives n*’d crowbars. A number ol the gangs work in groups of IA and 20. VI KM’S ON AC STB AIJA. LONDON. August 20. Til,. '‘Morning Post" publishes statements made by the holies who tune hocn investigating the Australian ntmigralion possibilities. Queensland and South Australia are . omnieiule I Inr emigrants, hut one lady say-.- I would not- recommend anyone to '•'•me U) Xotv South Wales. There is no Hostel ill Sydney, and llieie is bitter hostility from Lite trade tmionis. Ihoir tyranny in this State is past belief. Melbourne also does not seem 1 1 iendlv to immigration. though the lie" \i< - torctii scheme sounds excellent.

PPIDKMK' OF El ABIDES. BI'DAPI'-ST. August 28. Dining the hist 18 hours there nave i ecn 21 cases of suicide and attempted suicide. Wit It one exception they were due to privation and want. XKW WIRELESS HORROR. j (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 29. Professor A. M. Low, a Wellington scientist, writing in the Nineteenth Century, describes a new war horror that of throwing jets of water charged with electricity, which "'ill rendet cavalvv obsolete, as horses are more readily electrocuted than men. Discussing the use of wireless in warfare he pa vs that it will he possible to develop? wireless power to such an extent that by momentarily diverting several thousand horsepower of a battleplane’s engine, it will he possible to destroy aircraft within a few hundred yards. It will also ho possible to destroy the delicate rigging of aeroplanes by wireless heat.