MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1923, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z- CABLE ASSOCIATION’. imilekrlnce ox wine. LONDON. November 10. Gomnieiiting on the proposal to increase tin' pfelY.-tenee to the Dominion's wines, ill" Wine Trade Review points cut the total wine importations amount to lie tween eleven and thirteen million gallons annually, of which, six to eight hundred thousand entile from the Dominion-, but over ninety per cent of this quantity does not exceed thirty degrees of alcoholic strength. Most is. in fact, below twenty-eight, hence the proposed extended preference i-, not quite so important as appears at lii.-I sight. A DIVIDEND. LONDON, November RL New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company for the year has declared a dividend of lour per cent, tax I roc. A li E'-dO NATION. LONDON. November 1(1. Mr Allan Smith, has resigned the chairmanship of the Industrial Group. '(UNGUAL SMUTS AND INDIA. LONDON, November 10. 'l’li.. close of the I mperinl’Coutoieia o w ltr , marked !»y nn stcrinior.ous o»:itniversy between Mr Sapru -India) and General Smuts. Tin* former, interviewed on the eve of Ins departure for India, emphasised Ills failure to collie 1.0 terms with General Smuts on the subject of the stains of tile Indians in South Africa. He said that General Smuts mid heaped insult on the Government of India and lie had, by his nil.hide of obstinacy, harmed the Empire whereof he l"’-"I ns file champion. General Smuts, m an interview, said that lie was surprised at and regret led. Mr. Salim’s attack, which. lie ieared, would do the cause of India a great disservice, and said that that dilihult enu.-t; was unlikely to be made easier l.v vehement attacks upon the m pre-

sent nl ives of other nations. The Dominion- were rep:eseiili d M the Imperial (‘imfel-.'iiee h\ Premiers wim wire vested with lull ic-poiisiliilily. .Mr ■sapru was not even an ordinary n’vmPer of tho ,"i nie.el.t of India. He iuid departed without the etiquette winch all the oilier i cpre-eid.a Li‘. es of the i .inference had observed to cia-l, otiltM, (Jfiicrnl ompintii-ully ro|»uc.iatcd what he termed the ludieioiis charge of insulting the Govcniment of India.

I'AKSI’DIITS. LONDON. Nov. li>. 1,, i In- lion- ( ominous, Sir R. MrXi'ill .ssiiii llio Uuvi-nniK’iit li;ul viiod vhe Governments of the Doiniiil(l eoii. nr m lhe exieiision of the \ alidii v of Drill -h |j;i> s pm-ls to hve ;; ,\PI'. I’OI.ITU’S. CAPETOWN, Nov. I'b The opening result- of the Piovineia! Comieil eleetion campaign in the Capeprovince. which were held in record tempestuous weal her -how staunch support lor the South African Party. TPi-, after the improved South Airman Pai l s po-itioii in the I ransvaal election.' indicates the Government Im* mni'p i lmn m:iiui ainvil 0this is being taken ns an index foi lh" next general Parliamentary election. THE TAN I MURDER. ICCPI.DEN’S STATEMENT. LONDON, Nov. Id. The arrested man, Igguideit. sii-pec-i f ve lerdas'- taxi murder, was re malided nn the ■ hinge of the mtirdei of Elhel Howard. The oolice gave evidence limt Tg gulden, upon lii- arrival at Hie police -lation. made a voluntary -ign*'d staiemeiit. after wn-h:ng hi- l.lood-taim-d hands. Tin* slaleinem would be priiduced later. The "Daily Chronicle" say- Mr; Howard’- two (.ret tv eidhire.ii. age-1 eight, and five, are now alone in the world. They do sa-.t know anything of the murder and have only been told l lit-i <- mot her met with an aeeideni.

TWO WOMEN’S PLUCKY EIGHT LONDON. Nov. 17. Tin* Daily Express'- Madrid correspondent says: "An Englishwoman ami her daughter were awakened during the night by an intruder in their residence, near Yillareud, in the province of Gastellos. The intruder declared that lie lov.'d tin- daughter, and wished to marry her. 'ihe girl guessing that he wa> merely a burglar seized a golf club, and attacked the man fiercely. The intruder snatched anoilier club from tile mother's band, with which ho defended himsoli. Ihe mother lied, and icturiied armed witli a revolver. .Meantime, the daughter bad been tolled by a. Mow. The intruder next attacked the mother, but he fled at the first shut she tired, and lie was afterwards captured by the Spanish Gendarmes. The women’s heroism is highly praised.

CON KADI TKI'AL. AX AC!,H'ITTAT.. I.ACSAXXi:. Xo\. Til. Tit,, jury vote,'! ~j to ! it) favour of tin* acquittal of Conraui ami I’otinniiio. who have discharged. I-TXAL SCKXF.X AT TiilAl.. LONDON. Nov. 17. '['ho ••Dailv Telegraph's" Laustmif correspondent says Tho final scenes „f the Conraili trial were most impressive. The President in nnnouueii,e the arqniual. ordered CYmradi ami Pcdinnine to jointly pay tho costs of the trial, and also ordered the coidis.r.ation of the weapon with "huh Vorovsky was shot. The pi'.hlic loudly cheered the c.evision while C.inradi's mother and wife overemno by emotion hurst into tears. The cheers were taken tin by uc crowds outside the Coiiit. The acquittal may he -aid to have jrj veu .'Oneral satisfaction to tho majority of the citizens of l.ausauue, though many outside tl.oufint punishment however slight shouel have heeu iuliieted. ,1 edging however, from the _ wn.v that the jury's votes were cast it is • t ,] t that the trial has established a moral condemnation of the prisoners while Bolshevism has also been condemned.