MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1923, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. HESSIAN ORTHODOX < lIERC'H. LONDON. Nov. 2.1. Tlie "Times" Warsaw correspondent says the Orthodox Church of Russia is on its lasi Ires, Thai is tic impression gained bv Lisbon Bury who enn,looted the first Anglican service held at Moscow for three years. The Orthodox Church may maintain a precarious existence while Tikhon lives hut, will then fall to pieces. Tim TNitriarch is a broken man and the S' ,viet is probably awaiting bis death in order to deal the Orthodox Church its death Mow. The Bishop visited Tikhon who is frail and old and lives under strict, surveillance. He is unable to communieale with his brother Bishops. The hoik of the people still adhere to the Orthodox Church, whoso services are crowded, whereas the Soviets’ churches are almost empty. MR BRICK HONORED. LONDON, Nov. g:i Mr llrneo has received an honorary L.1..D. degree at Cambridge. THE TANK Alt MERDKR. ißerc-ived this day at 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 21. At tie resumed hearing ol the order charge against IggUedcti. eaiued on tile Lull, it wa-. siuted in evidence t.'.al letters Were iftlllif 1 on prisoner In tic lather and deceased wherein L-riden said he was about to -un-ide in ,1 |-n■ 1 swallowed a bottl- of clilorodyne, being fed mu with life ,'is he ioul-1 l.ct ma rry I lie deceased. CERE FOR ULCERATING CANCER (“Sydney Sun" Cables). (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) I’ARI'S. Nov. 2b. A Syrian doctor. Nannie, practising at Tunis, after fifteen years' research, showed tile Baris .Medical Assn, a remarkable cure for ulcerating cancer of the breast without an operation or the X-rays, lie treated eases with thyroid mammary extracts and asserts that i-aiiier is due to a lark of lia In mbetween Die various glands, and is curable bv re-toring the glandular balam-e. TITAN K HAM EX'S TR EASE RE INEARTHED. (Received th.is d.iv at 5.79 a.m.) CAIRO. Nov. 25. The "Sun's" special i orrC'peii(le:lt at Luxor, says that between the first and second .shrines of Tutunkbiiliieu’s Tomh, Mr Carter found a number ol beautiful symbolical alabaster ealcite vases, mounted with silver and gold, and also found the royal staves, mace, sceptre, a golden bow, and an enormous linen pall decora led with innumerable golden rosettes. All are most beautiful works of art. The interior of the outer shrine is completely gilt and covered with numerous religious texts. On the front of the second shrine is it frieze hearing a great winged solar disc. On the panels of the door are representations of Tutankhamen worshipping before Isis. The scenes depicted are in incised relief overlaid with gold of the finest workmanship.

THE BOY SCOl"!' .MOVEMENT. LONDON. Nov. 25. At the Commissioner's dinner to the Roy Scouts' Association. Sir Alfred Kick ford, in referring to his recent Lour ol Australasia and other pints ol the Emnii'e, said l.hat everywher •Ic 'omul splendid results accruing Irom the great movement. Sir R. S. S. Baden Rowell, who prodded. said that he thought, the International .lamboree would do iiiueii to secure an inlermilioiini brotherhood, for which the world was dying. MARKETS AND EX KM RJ.OY.MEXT LONDON. Nov. 21. The National Eiiioii of Rriti-h .Manufacturers has circularised As members, asking bow many move workers they could employ 11 I ' l ' ’ markets were protected. Replies received up ip '(he present place the number at over hall a million, while the Cnion itself estimates an eventual total of a million. PLENTY OK ACROBAT*. (Received this day at 11-25 a.m A London. November 25. The ‘•Daily Express" Geneva correspondent reports a Swiss circus proprietor in response to an advertisement for (■line hundred acrobats tor a lung tom in South America leioived sixty thousand applications ll'cni all | aits ol Kuorpe. ohielly Germany, Austria, and Russia. Among the applicants were a 1,111-oil III. (I haloness. generals, rnhmels. counts, eomiLcsses and [U'ol es,-' >i s. .-olin letters from applicants were must j nth. el ic. DRV MKSIC HALLS. LONDON, November 21. A full meeting of the London Council rejected the Committee' !»'"iusal under wliiHi liquor would he sold in Pars but not in the aiulitoiium m n number of music halls. The Council decid'd by I’oi ty-ioiir to tluity-t hire votes that m> liquor he sold.

BANDITS ROB bank. OTTAWA. November 21. A month ago bandits awakened Olive Dupont, the girl manager of the Bank National at SY. Myaelunthe. tluily-two miles east of Montreal and ic«|„cstcd her to dress and visit tile bank chamber below. There they 'ompelled her to ejeii the safe and hand over twelve thousand dollars. ’lbis morning masked men whom the girl recognised as the same by their fares, called again, and repeated the programme, securing eight thousand dollars. 111 K WEATHER IN BRITAIN. I .ON DON. Nov. •'•. The greater nart of England w.- • hidden hv a fog during the week-cm:. wore riClt*" Tempera lures cieiywiie, - lrec/.iiiu point and trains and chain el sU nniers were delayed. The Aquilanm. scheduled to leave .Southampton only this morning, is still in dock. 1 night twenty-three degrees ol grou-u frost were registered at Glasgow. Skating and tobogganing ,llt y h ! eroding in Scotland, the north of England and the .Midlands. Many ■ tisli roads are ire-bound and impass-

able. aiustocrats snn ok. LONDON, Nov. The - Dailv Chroniele’s” Paris emus pmuient reports that Baron and Ba'on-e-s De Moiitigny, who belonged to tm old aristocracy, suicided togetom blowing out their brains on the gi’■ c of their only son who was killed .'i t- *' war in 15>1S and buried at Choisy ui >ac. A 810 TlßEnew YOR!>■ November 24. \ fire at Tia Guana, a famous racing resect iust over the Mexican border, dettroved a warehouse eontaimng liquor vdued at twenty thousand sterling, twenty-live saloons and many houses. The total loss is over a million dolhus. LONDON. Xovendter 21. Air Bruce accepted the ntth-c of patron of the British Empire Producers Organisation. Earl Glasgow was elected President. A. R. Hasson, representing Australian Meat Board and Eorsyth .e- - New Zealand Meat Board were elected members of the Council.