MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 November 1923, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. KING OF SPAIN. ROAIE, Nov. 20. King Alfonso, in a speech at the Vatican, promised the Pope the help of Spain in any new crusade made against the unfaithful. He asked tho Pope to admit noblemen to the Papal Noble Guard, and he advocated an increase in the American Cardinals. The Pope expressed the hope that he would he able to fuitil the wishes expressed. IXJ USTICE R ESEXTED. LONDON, Nov. 21. The Daily Express's .Moscow correspondent says: Al. Chiclicrin, commenting on the acquittal of Conradi, said: "Switzerland was tile former haven of exile for Lenin and others, hut it will henceforth be boycotted by Russians. The entire Swiss bourgeois" are responsible lor this crime, and will pay dearly. There will be no Russian relations, business, or visitors.”

HOARDED GOLD. LONDON, Nov. 22. The Aforning Rost’s Paris correspondent says:—“ft is commonplace for enormous hoards of gold coins to remain carefully concealed by pcasauts in Era nee. A high Treasury offi-

cial states the amount, of hidden wealth might be estimated at over a thousand million francs. The subject is brought into prominence owing to the arrest of a Paris dealer, who. it is alleged, in nine months melted and sold over two hundredweight of gold coins. It. is slated lie was head of a widespread organisation whose method was to induce peasants to transfer their gold for a payment far in excess of its face value. The evidence indicates forty francs were paid for twenty-five franc gold f.ouis pieces, which were resold to higher agents for fifty, and sometimes sixty francs, when they were again resold to dealers for melting, and there was a further re-sale to the goldsmiths.

AIR If. G. AY EL LS RKAIKDY. LONDON. Nov. 20. Air IT. G. AYelis. the noted author, who is standing as the Labour candidate for London University, attributes i lie tragic unemployment in Britain to the decadence of Central Europe, which he says has come about through the obstinacy of Al. Poincare, and the empty weakness of Air Baldwin’s Government. lie says: “The Labour Party attacks the problem of developing the Home market by a system of high wages, through a capital levy, and Labour proposes boldly to attack the present concentration on the spending power of the nation in the hands of a small minority of private individuals. This is really a levy on excessive private ownership.” Air AYelis demands the I iindainental reconstruction of the League of Nations.

SEPARATION CAUSES SUICIDE. A ROMANTIC TRAGEDY. PARIS, November 21. A lomaiitie double tragedy was revealed by the death, of Charles Pagan vho shot himself in the heart in Oran l'i-oti with a revolver which a gill friend. Carmen Tiigola, smuggled into ,1 is fell hidden in a loaf of bread. With tin' broken Jonf at Pagan’s side "a.- a letter from Carmen saying th it -!»t: vv,n tumble to heat the separation mid uas determined to kill hcise’l. Sim gave her Inver the rendezvous .l> tile next world. On breaking the loaf and learning of his lover’s intention Pagan suicided. A search was llion made in Carmen's room whole she was found dead in bed. Imr hand chit. filing her lover's plmingraph. After sending the Inal' to the prison she ha A turned on the go-.

GIRLS AYKI.I- CONTENTED IN X.Z. LONDON, November 21. G!vdvs Rolls, interviewed, said tied ,be found a vast majority 1,1 RHtidi pills migrants m Au-tralia and New Zealand "eve. well contented with their lot. < specially with the greater iree,!em, better climatic conditions and the 1-jehor wages. I am strongly against allowing gills to go to the Dominion.: i..,.|ely for the sake of finding hip--1,: mis. A girl who goes with that idea : i_.it a type which Australia or New Zealand "ants: hut the girl who is load' to win 1; will find plenty of opportunities to marry as Australia ha- not, *,wo million mure women tear, men like Prim in. -fodf-ii'linnt girls in the Dominions have opportunities of climbing the ladder in a mneli shorter time than beie. Gills are not so prejudiced sovi-

i.lly by entering domestic service hi Hie .Dominions as in Britain. B ['SSI AX TAX SCHIOIF, r.OXOOX. Xovemher 22. 7he ■‘ArnniTug I’o-tV’ Ilelsinglors t orrospoiidont sa\s: I here is coming a new iax in Hr.s-ia on income and capital. It is designed to stipe is eile tlw mass oi heterogenous taxation at present imposed on the inhabitants, according to the whim of the local authorities; hut whether it will he possible to control the latter in this matter any more than in others, is questionable. *1 la* tax will be levied on low ll dwellers, also those country dwellers who have other sources ot income besides agriculture. Persons in receipt ol less than a hundred and fiity gold loubles a month will he freed of taxation.. On the part e.f their income, as yet unfixed, above the income mentioned, the whole will be taxed on a gliding scale, HOME INDTYSTB IPS. BRISBANE. November 22. Mr Theodore refused the offer of Eri tish (lovernment loans for immediate public works. He dues so on the ground that seventy-five per cent of the materials required, by Queensland were obtainable in Australia, wherefore he is tillable to satisfy the conditions of such a lour, by purchasing the materials from English manufacturers. A SYDNEY CURIOSITY-. SYDNEY. November 22. V peculiar ease at AYaverloy Hospital j- puzzling the doctors. A young woman admitted in a. deep sleep woke alter an unbroken slumber of a full week. All efforts to rouse her failed. Meantime food was regularly administered. He; heart and |»ul-e beat were norma. The ease is supposedly the aftermath of an influenza attack. i,n,i‘nw^— «c«siPW'an |