MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

iUSTRAI.IAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SWIMMER FAILS. LONDON. September I. f’errant, (a CnnadSan), abandoned the Channel swim three and a half miles from South Foreland, lie was overcome by the cold after being in the water for ten hours. ITe started mini Cave Grisncz. FALL IN STERLING. NEW YORK. September 4. Sterling is now quoted at 4->2 cents Inis is the lowest it has fallen this vear. LONDON, September 4. Tile mark has slumped to 70.000,000 to the pound. TRADES UNION CONGRESS. [I? El’TEltS TkI.EOUAMS.] (Received this day at 12. Li p.m.) LONDON. Sept. 5. The Trades Union Congress decided that the new Secretary should devote his whole time to the labour movement and lie debarred from Uarliamentnr.v candidature. His salary was increased from Ll5O to £"SO. Attci a heated debate the Congress decided that the dispute between the Sailors and Firemen’s Unions and the hiremen’s Unions and the Amalgamated Marine Workers’ Union he referred to the Disputes Committee to try to reconcile and amalgamate the rival unions.

AN ALT’S ORDEAL. (Received this day at 2.15 p.m.) LONDON. September 1. Tho “Daily Express” Geneva correspondent states Hoes?el. a Swiss student narrates a horrible ordeal ho underwent while touring the Alps with a man named Seliaer and Seliaer ■- son. They climbed Rathorn. aiuT nearing the summit at eight o’clock in the evening the three were roped together. when Seliaer senior, fell dragging his son with him. the father being"'Killed and the soil fatally injured. But the rope held, and Hoessel remained on a ledge supporting the weight of the dead and living. HT.esSC 4 was unable to raise the dying man. who talked to him for several hours telling of his sufferings, until ho died. Meanwhile, Hoessel was unable to move without risking his lue, and remained thus till dawn, when lie crawled to the edge of the precipice and finding his companions dead, cut the rope.