MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 October 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AI'STKALIAN AND N. 7,. CABLE ASSOCIATION. RKFOHM IN JAPAN. TOKIO, October If) A committee of five Cabinet .Ministers. headed by Goto, will draft a manhood Mitfrage iccommcndntiou to ike (iovormnen t, wliieh probably "i!i lie enacted this coming session. It opens the ballot, to males twenty-five y'-ars of ag“, with no properly, and no < idler qualifications are nee,---a ry. Kveiv elector will lie eligible lo: the office. Tin* proposal aii'Jishes the majo-i'.t of the two restrictive qualifications in Die election oi peers. ..'A BAN'S KNOWN LOSSES'. T<)KIO, Oou>! or i'). ’the Government announces that it O offieii-Jly knov, n that 1 lie dcaLii roil in th,. caiihquiike and fires totals ICO,. (■OR. "In!" flic persons suffering uro perty dainge nuinhor 2.87.1.000. Altogether 554 .<>oo houses v.ere destroicd. A LONDON TRAGEDY. LONDON. October Rl. How a mother threw her baby into til,. Thames because site was obsessed with, the idea that it v, mild grow up a cripple war told at Old Bailey wle-n the jury found Ada Knslofski. aged 2d. guilty of murder. The jury added a strong recommendation to mercy. Th,. woman, bursting into tears, had to he removed, as the death sentence was pronounced. The prosecuting counsel said the woman wa> .separated from her Innband ami had cnteicd domestic service, taking the child v. ith her. Misunderstanding what a doctor told her. she was convinced of a fal-e idea that the child had infantile paralysis. At midnight on Augn.-t 20th. she aas seen to throw the baby over Westminster Bridge, afterwards living to jump in herself, hut the passer.—l,y | revented her. She told a Irieiul that without the baby she bad nothing to lire for. WEDDED OR NOT. LONDON. Oi l .her •_>!). Doling the healing of the petition of Cicely I’ereival. for the restitution of conjugal rights, ii was given m evidence that the mairiage had been solomnisod by a Roman Catholic piiost, father Grogan, who had not been authorised to do so. The suit was dismissed and the marriage was declared invalid. Rev, father Grogan, in evidence, said that though li" had not been autiio ised. he had agreed to marry the parties, wlio were members ol a touring theatrical company, lie did so “to save shipwrecking petitioners morals and faith.” He hail told the parties they must be civilly married before a registrar at tile earliest possible moment. The judge who warned the Eriost before he gave his evidence, pointed out that tin unauthorised poison performing a marriage ceremony committed a felony. ARMISTICE DAY. LON DON, (h toher 21. Tip. Dean of AVexlmilistor (Dean Tngei announces that as the Abbey service on November 11 inils(, e! ne:e sity. he of an oHieial character. no tickets will be atfailalde for -the puhli". lint the fighting services and e.x-ser-vicemen will be repre-eiited.

The “Daily Telegraph" says: "I his astonishing ummumemciit eeli|m’s even th,, Governments blunder ot ahandoiiiug the Cenotaph service. A .substituted afternoon service in I n'.lalga: Equal" would lack the iinpressiveiios of tip. Cenotaph i ereinony. Ihe Government lias shown a complete lack ol vision and sympathy with the national feeling. BRITAIN'S i’ROBI.KMS. LONDON, (let. 20. Sir li. Horne, at Glasgow, suggested that the Government, as a remedy for the unemployment .instead oi appliing CJ0.000.000 to* debt redemption, should develop some great scheme by "hu h lo enrich and develop the Dominions at (i e same time providing. a lasting benefit to Britain's teeming millions. SOCCER. LONDON. Get. 2H. At Belfast, in Association fool hall. Ireland heat England by two goals to one. NEWSI’AI’ER COMBINE. LONDON. Oct. :.l. The big newspaper combine eoUDi-.ues to he th" absorbing lopie in fleet St H is now staled that llulton's group u pap-r ihmici-s. since their own aequisi th,,, by the eon,bine for Ox million sterling, have purchased, mu oi (lieu cash assets, the Scottish newspapers at pro.,cut controlled by Lord Rolhermere. These newspapers will g" sold to the Associated Scottish Newspapers. Ltd., u new company, which is about to hr registered, with a capital ol nine hundred thousand sidling. Then that company will sell them for one mdlien sterling to the HulLms.

PORT AY INK. LONDON. on. 21. Tile lving’s Bench has decided that wine cannot he sold in Britain as port wine, unless it is produced in Portugal. A description like ‘•Australian poi L is held to he false under the .Merchandise .Marks An. The matter arose out „f a suit by some wine merchants to prevent the'sale of Spanish wine under the label of • Tarragona port." declaring it to he a nnuravenl ion of the j Anglo-Portgiicse Treaty and the Abu-, chnndise .Marks Act. _ j The claim was upheld the Chic! <"i«-j tiro declaring it unarguable. STATIC .MEDICAL S ICR A'ICE. LONDON, Oct. 21. | It is estimated that .120.001) 'panel doctors will resign, those representing SO per cent ol the doctors under the State service. Sir AY. Joy nsoii-l licks now hints that the Government may establish a new medical service. LONDON, On. 21. Regarding the panel doctors refusal to accept a reduction of Is in tees under lite State medical service, t.i 7s lid the Minister. Sir AY. Joynson-llicUs, has hinted that a new service would, ifj neeossavv, lie iormed tor attention to the poorer classes if the doctors -case work at the new year. AA'hile Imping that the doctors will not smash the system, the Minister is

confident that- he would ho able to organise a substitute service. Hundreds of doctors, especially in the Alid la nils. have already handed it) 'heir resignations. The doctors point out that their resignations will leave only about 2000 practioners available for the State services. These are mostly in the seaside and country town-, and there will he a serious shortagle of doctors in the great industrial centre 5 .

OBITUARY. [ Rkut Kits THl,non AMS .1 (Received this dav at 0.0 a.m.A LONDON. Oct. 22. Obituary.—Duke of Somerset.