MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1923, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION. CONBADI TRIAL. LAKSANNF. Nov. It. The Attorney-General, in concluding the case for Switzerland in the trial of Conradi, am! Buliuninc. for the murder of Yorowsky (Soviet Delegate). demanded a verdict- of guilty against hotih. declaring that -’swuzeihmd must not become a refuge for assassins to escape punishment. Switzerland feared that if the two accused were acquitted, foreign diplomatic Lillies like the i,eague of Nations would leave the country for stuei ground. Admitting the provocation that Conradi had received, he pointed out the minimum sent .-nee could he inflicted. INDIAN TEA SALES. Calcutta. November if. At the tea sales, the market was weak. There was an average decline of half an anna for better class sorts, particularly leaf arid tippics. Dusts were in strung demand, and sold at an advance. THE NOBEL PRIZE. STOCKHOLM- Nov. TT. This year's Nobel Prize for literature lias been donated to Mr AY. B. Yeates. the lii-h p.oet and dramatist. Mr Yeates is a leading light ill the Irish revival movement, which is generally admitted to he among the most original inspirations of present day literature. MR MASSEY RESTING. LONDON, Nov. It. Mi Massey (says a London cable) alter a strenuous sis weeks, is resting foi a Jew days prior to paying visits to Birmingham, Yorkshire and Belfast.^ .MANYFAC TUBER- OF SUNLIGHT SOAP. LONDON. November 14. Lord l everhulme. of Sunlight Soap fame, sailed in the Majestic, oil a visit to his undertakings in America, New Zealand and Australia. ULSTER PRISONERSLONDON November 13. Tin- Catholic Bishop of County Down, Mi Joseph Devlin, and other Lister Catholics, have petitioned Premier Baldwin. demanding the earliest trial, sentence or release cf the men kept interned by the L ister Government. S l-'KK INC I’ARI-I A M ENT A L’Y HONOURSLONDON. November 14. M,- ( B. Krv. the noted English cricketer, will ."land at the mining general election for Parlianumi. con te-filig the Banbury seat as a Liberal. PUBLIC CONCURNLONDON. November M. The London public is much concetn,.,l a 1,,,,,. reports of Sir James Barrie’s illness. The “Dialv Telegraph” is in-(,-rnied tint he is not seriously ill, hut is recuperating his strength at Sir Domdas Shield’s nursing home, in Paik Kane, alter an attack of exhaustion, following on over-work. PLANS APPROVED. LONDON. Nov. 14. The Parliamentary Agricultural Committee to-day approved of the Government's agricultural proposals. BRITISH UNEMPLOYED. LONDON. Nov. 11. The Government has approved ol a subsidy of £1 -per acre for arable land where a minimum ol thirty shilling.-, is paid to farm labourois. LONDON GIRL EMIGRANTS. LONDON, Nov. 14 '*"• Two smartly dressed young women applied at the Hampstead Police Court for the Magistrate’s signature to their applications for assisted passages to New /i-alaml.

The Magistrate: Do you realise that vou are covenanting not to marry for a year? This seems to me very serious. Do you thoroughly undersiaml the eon (1 it ions ? The girls: Quite. The Magistrate: Well, you are going to a very nice country. 1 hope you will succeed! EMPIRE EXHIBITION. LONDON. Nov. 15. Good progress with the erection of the New Zealand Court and Cinema Hall at the Empire Exhibition is !*•- ing made. A concrete floor and framework have been completed. Materials i.ir the walls, roofing and tiles are on the ground, ’file Court is expected to he ready late in January or February for mural decorations, which are being prepared in New Zealand. Inquiries regarding hotel accommodation in London at the Exhibition period suggest the advisability of making prior arrangements, possibly through the High Commissioner.

SENTENCED TO DEATH. Tletcived this day at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 15. Two generals and two majors liavo been sentenced to death in connection with, the revolt in Greece. CO F NTE R F EITE I! SEXT EXC KI) LONDON. Nov. 15. G uvie. who was charged on Monday with counterfeiting was sentenced to three years penal servitude, lie admitted that he had eul’e-tod a number of blanks by going to the mint before he was due, and had struck four halfcrowns which he had attempted to change. THE KIX EM A AND THE EMPIRE. J’.-scfcivcd this day at 9.-15 a.m.) . LONDON. November 15.-r The prince of Wales, presiding at a luncheon at tile British Film League, said that it would be well worth Britain’s while to take the him industry seriously and develop it to its utmost. He emphasised the impo;tanec of the l-inema, in advancing Imperial trade, adding that trade follows the film. The ( hairman. Colonel Drumhead, pointed out that a proportion of British films .shewn in the Dominions was only two per cent as compared with fifteen per cent in the United Kingdom, The Empire could not afford to he absent from the world’s screens. Mr .Massey, in a letter of apology, urged that the field could be employed to a greater degree in placing before the world the enormous resources of the Empire. In New Zealand there was a continually expressed desire for British fi|ms,