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Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1923, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FLEET TQ BE INSPECTED. Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 9. The Atlantic Fleet is breaking its autumn programme of exercise and assembles at Spithead from the first to the sth of November for inspection by the delegates to the Imperial Conference. JAPANESE SELECTED. PARIS, Sept. 9. The (oniereiiee of Ambassadors selected Lieiit-Colonel Shibtiya, .Military Attache to the Japanese Embassy, to preside over the Committee to inquire into Ihe .Janinn murders. POUCH CONGRESS. (Received tnis dav at 9.25 a.m.) VIENNA. Sept. 9. The International Police Congress decided to make Vienna a permanent seat, and to establish an international arrangement for an international bureau. A special committee examined and recommended for adoption by all police forces of the Joergensen methods of identification from a distance. A RIPE AGE. LONDON, September 9. Catherine .Jane Jellicoo. cousin of Viscount Jellieoe celebrated her 102 ml. birthday in a house in which she hud lived since childhood. A WHALING CRUISE. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received tin's day al 10.25 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept. S. Three small vessels are being lit ted out at Seattle, and ale sailing for Auckland, where they will obtain supplies for a three years whaling cruise in the South Seas. TLev intend operating as far as 75 south hi til tide waters. AN ECU USE. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) NEW YORK. Sept. 8. Californian towns are crowded uitii tourists w ho expei t lo w itness a ninetynine per rent, eclipse of the sun on Monday. Scientists are attempting to secure more data iu connection wild Hie Einstein theory, supplementing that obtained in Australia. Other subjects upon which Monday's darkness is expected lushed light art 5 : Haw lilies the sun contrive to give sum enormous heat without an observable shrinkage in size. Is there a mysterious planet somewhere between Mercury and the Sun. .MORRISON’S MEMOIRS. [“The Times” Skiivii.’K.J (Received this day at. 10.10 a.m.) LONDON. Sept. 9. The widow of Dr Morrison will appoint ( atiper. lormer assistant editor I ( the “Times." or failing him. Buckle or Dawson, past or present editors, te edit her husband’s papers. A RUSSIAN BANK. TEHERAN. Sept. 9. A new Russian lank has been opined. The Soviet Government holds liltyolie per cent, of shares. i lie olqeet is tln> interesting ol Persian merchants t;i I! ussjan com meres'. Will EL ESS BROADCASTING.

("Sidney Smi" Cables). o (Received this day at 10.10 a.m.) w OTTAWA. Sepf. 8. t The "Sim’s" Vancouver eerrespon- ] dent stales broadcasting has passed the first t raze, hot at ilie same time there j, increasing evidence that solid interest is growing. The most magndicent development is a statement l.y dealers that ninety per rent, ol their sales nowadays are of euinparaOtcK t expensive sets to oroide who previously [ opera fed with cheap sets. Mauv sum!- ~ |, i broaden-ting sets have fallen out since the first craze. The Province newspaper has five thousand sets listening nightly in British Columbia. A popu- t lation of half a million in isolated set- a tclinents like the west coast of \ an- <. mover Island and upper country, is largely served with news of all kinds Irom weather reports to the Japanese earthquake. Fifty per lent, of the crviee is now devoted to that held, where formerly music claimed eighty per cem. Experiences in other cities lias been similar. No charge is made anywhere L l-’nited States or Canada lor the amusement. 1 have not known a single instance of a subscriber slopping Hie paper because he was getting news f rt .,. On the Other hand they get scores of letters of appreciation of the _ service.