MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N. 7.. CABLE ASSOCIATION. A REPRIEVE. LONDON, November 1. Ro : ert Shet.lieid. who wa- found guilty ol she murder of Florence Jones (it the IXth. of .Paly has been rep-reived. TO TEACH RfS-IA. •MOSCOW, No’.cull cr I. A patty ol .-killed Australian waugnien Lave arrived here. They intend SetDmg in En-'-ia. their avowed ,hJ 1 et L ing to M-t am cxampLof improved met hods in the rural imlttst ties. EA BOER LEADER’S ANA I.YfilS. LONDON. Noveiiiia r I. lie ' ad": of the Labour Party. M; I ’ nite-ny Me I). ma Id . v. a , tendered a lum-hi".n l,v hi- Lai oar ci 'leagues. In a -peecii. he mill tiie most important event -inee be went to tit,- Levant waMl Ifiddw in's change of battle turtles, lie wait uncertain what Mr Baldwin meant, and as to Imw far it was Mr Baldwin's own or the Cabinet's new policy, lie : i-Res!. had Mr Baldwin nailed the | : M eet ion Ist (lag to the masthead, or only half-ill,u-l .high ? Was it to le out and out proteei'ion nr merely points thereof, mrefnllv -(leeted. not to save the en'untry. Liu lo give the Tolies The unemployment- evil In Britain, said Mr MacDonald, had lasted four years. In:: the ('niise: vat it ex previdtislv had not siiggr-ted protc! jolt as :i remedy. Mr Baldwin was like some LaLotiailes. who. wlien they Mould not -oe any way oil! t; I thei; trilihles. llelhlM'd il gynei'al .-Trike. [’intention was not. a cure for linem j lovimiil. It merely was a diversion. It was a hollow and in-

cffeclivc proposition. It was magniti- < cut as a 1 1 1 :• t lie, -I . f -id, ■-! racking this .-vi ions prohlrm. Tim eomiiig light, he -ail. would not he pioti-'tion ver-us Par Trade, hut Erol ee| ion versus j. d our Policy ' On the t. In le. he fa \ mired an oi eu in::i Let . but. even if I hey had plot, nl ion. there still would i" all Hie p.oulenis centring around the l.nbi u:r programme. The pre-nil! stain of 11 Hein |: lev men l would oulv he remediahle by lim I epa lat ions policy, which Labour had advocated f" r Lin year-. LaL.n:r aimed at the development, in IP itaiu if tie prate.t ion of their ow II ma ri;et. Referring to emigration. t!m Labour Leader sa id that if the Dominions only took Biitain's skilled men ami women, they would weaken, instead if strvngi iiening Britain's vital ne!u-i: it -. LAT’.OPR'S \ I.TLRN YH YE. T.dNDDN. Novel!’ Let !. Eabour's eoigsideivd re] !y to Mr Baldwin has been l.s-ned in the fnitn ef a i,.solution adopt, il by a joint meet ing i f the (Jettet ,1 ( oillieil of the Trades Lnieu Congiv-s and the Lahniii pa rtt , It calls on all the Labour (>r-gani-ailions and members to resist to the Utmost the specious arguments ol pi ole Tien, end to | l ess in on the electorates lad.oar's p'-liey ol work and wage-, with, the provision of adequate maintenance ol re-cive'- ol industry, to La secured o.v inti rnatiouttl ivnoustnietion and co-eperul imt, national le-or-ganisaitnu. and develnpinel. and the 1 iitting into canTatimt of Lai mu's general progrnmine tn meat the crying >. - rial and e otiunie ills. Us Icing H:e 111:iv alternative to protect imi.

GIRL MOLNTAIXEEBN EAI.L. I.GNDGN. New Eraulcin Te-lie. a young hospital nurse, when climbing the ] lolicnwall. in the Austrian Allis, tell over a precipice four hundred and LLy I eel high. S|,,, was only slightly injured, though stunned. When she recovered consciousness she was horrified to find the dew’lllposed body ol a man. with a whistle 111 hi- mouth, on a ledge beside her. Tiie girl shouted out. hut no help nunc, and she spent a night by the dead man. I'Tntlßy la r . He- were rd by a pa i ly of alpinist s, w ho rescued t lie mil's,, with r pus. T! e dead man prov ed to he an Austrian .student, who hat! disitpncared last summer. He evidently had -tuned to death. RONAR LAWS DEATH. I.DNDDN. Nov. 2. j The cremation of Ihe hotly oi t lie late Mr Roiiar Law will take place in strict privacy to-morrow . The leaderof t!m noli i iea | pa flies will he l lie pal) hearers at the foneral at Westminster AMiev mi .Monday', when the Prince of Wales will represent King George. All the Dominions’ Premiur.s will he pre-mil. al.-o the Amha--adors. A ea--I'tet containing the ashe will be placed m a front chancel xipy The grave will he ! eiween I lie first and -ecmid pillaron the south side of Ihe mite, net fa i irtuu the re-ting place el I.ivi n to it-■ and the unknown warrior. RL lion Mr .('lyne.s. Labour .M.R.. -peaking at the luncheon to Mr IL M.ieDoiiahl, said: —"TV" feel the pm-'-iug ' !' .Mr p.ouar Law le-- as the pas-in:: m a poliliea! force than that i f a dear personal friend.” lIAI.DWI.VK ( AM IGN. LONDON. Nmy 2. A rran:'"iuenl - are eompleted for Mr Raldwin's two s peer-lie- at M a itches lm to-'.hiV. The huge Free Trade Hal! could have been tilled live times over. Mr Baldwin is expected to r." ill" ipiestimi ol Empire eottou produeI ion. The Premier said, at Swansea, tbu' he was having the details el his tarili pi - OHi-: il- earefullv and ilmrmghlv examined. The "Monung Post" says lids work I' progressing, and a ('mnmilt -e ef the .Mini-ter.s v, ill .-oen he in possession of the details lor the protection of home manufactures. JAPANS DEATH ROLE. TDK 10. Nov. ’. The official casualty lists in . o:um"timi with the earthquake, issued by .be Hunt" Olfire. show that in T'okio the dead totalled (15,210 : and the iuim'"' 1 02,1:','i. The number mi ing and believed to he dea.d I- .‘MLo!! 1. In Yokohama the dead lmmhered 2!t.2JS ; the injured tjo.tL 1. and lit" missing who are believed to he dead J.-ViP. Adding the losses at Saiiama Sh.k'ika Chiha. thes" bring the total e-ad up to PP.J7I : the luiui'" 1 1" i1J.07! ami the missing to T2.-'*'t.