BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1923, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION. CO.MPOSKR’S t LAl.u. ROM K, Del. IN. On the grounds that the themes of bis operas an* being put to arlisiieallv and morally degrading uses, Signor Puccini, till.* famous composer, has commenced an action against the publishers of tin' Rleordi Company. Signor Puccini claims that 1 1 is themes have been plagiarised for the American ioxtroL music, and he states that the principal airs in "La ’losea" and "Madame I) 11 Uerlly” have been so used. He demands payment on the receipts of all sales, and an indemnity tor moral and aitistic damage'. A ISIRMiXOIIAM SCI IKM K. LONDON, Oet. |N. The Birmingham City Oouiieil is nut>idering the const ruction of small wooden houses, costing only L?‘> sterling each. The Chairman of the Council's Housing ('iiminiltee said the housing .shortage was most appalling. People were being driven to lake refuge in old

furniture vans and in rock eaves. Thousands 01 families "ere reported to be living in two rooms. Fpwanls ol fifteen lliousand people were awaiting bouses. A R MIBTICK DAY. LONDON. Oei. IS. A considerable body of public opinion, espieinlly that of the mm-eli it re lime n . and tlie Cat holies, deplores the abandonment el the religious ci ivmuiiy at the Cenotaph on Armistice Day. been 11s,, the day happens on tin* Fabhalh. Tie* national ceremony .should not be confined to the National Clinreh. it is eontended, sime the Calliopes and tin* Jews made sacrifices in the war equally with the Church of Kngland. and should not be debarred t until tti tending the celebrations. SHAKKSPKARK'S WRITIND. LONDON. October lit. Hitherto the only specimen of Shakespeare's handwriting are six signatures. P, is now nil!ruled that 117 lines 01 manuscript, which have lain in the British .Museum for two hundred years are in Shakespeare's writing. The lines are ait addition to a play by Anthony Monday oil the life of Sir Thomas .Moore, which has been corrected by various bands. dhe arguments and conclusions favouring the theory appeal in papers hv live scholar'. in< hiding Mr A. W. Pollard and Sir Kdvvard Maudc-Tlmmo-on. published in the Cambridge l iiiver-iiy Pre". The Daily K.xttress point' out tie* manuscript is the most valuable it l tb‘" world. It cannot be bought by Americans unless they bttv the British Museum .