MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1923, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

4USTUALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION VALUE OF SALT. TO WOBKING MINERS. LONDON, November 30. Lecturing before the institution of mining engineers- on the effects of high temperatures on miners, Professor Moss advocated the use of salt to prevent fatigue. It had been proved that the use of salt added twenty per cent to the efficiency of miners working in a heater! atmosphere. The future of British mining depended upon the ability to mine at great depths. ,'j'ich mining would he impossible unless the effects of high temperatures were overcome. Miners working in hot dry places, thank large quantities of viitor. which caused cramp and fatigue, and clegged the kidneys. To prevent tins, a .solution of salt water, sufficient to balance the loss of salt by perspilatlon. should he drunk. The lecturer quoted a number of eases of miners being completely cured. SOCCER. LONDON, November 30. The Football Association is inviting outstanding players, especially leading amateurs, to join the soccer team to tout Australia, next season. It is hoped the composition of the team will ho similar to that which toured (south Atriea and it is certain to be a powerful combination. EMPIRE LABOUR CONFERENCE. DURBAN, November 30. The Labour organ "Guardian” states at the forthcoming animal conference of the South African laibour Party, an Invitation, will lie siiTnnitted Iron) the British I.about- Ratty to a conference oi moml>e.r» of Labour parties throughout the Empire, to he held simultaneously with tin? Empire Exltiuiiion. The original idea of such a ('ouieieiuoeinauat. 'l from South Africa AN IMPORTANT AUREAL. LONDON, November 30. The appelate division of the Supreme ( in.t-l deluded an iniput taut judgment affecting the legality of a. mandatory power under the Versailles Treaty, aiising out of an appeal against, the conviction ol Jacobus Christian, one ol the leaders of the Boinlelswortz revolt of 1023, on it charge of high treason. The question, at issue was whether the mandator-y (to vein mint was a sovereign power, against which treason could he committed. The Court quoted precedents of the lonian islands and Transvaal Republic, although in both cases sovereignty wax considerably curtailed by British Protectorate and a suzerainty icspectively, their subjects wore liable to action for treason. The Court held that the Government of .South West Africa was not a sovereign independent State, hut the sovereignty formerly residing in the Gorman Government must now reside in the Union Government as the mandatory, and the- l nion I- the sevei'c-ign power, being a signatory to the Versailles 'Treaty and n niimboi of the League of Nations. The appeal v.as dismissed. A STATEMENT QUOTED. LONDON, November 30. A number of papers have taken up in a sensational manner, yesterday’s statement in regard to German disarmament assuming it is an official statement evoked l.y inquiries with regard to reports from Paris and Berlin, attributing < eft ain statements to genemi Bingham. Tin- inloi ination contained in the statement, although uu-tlmi-itativei. twits in no wise official and had not i-manateil trout any French sown-e. TEAt TIN- OF HISTORY. LONDON, November 30. Acknowledging the conferment of tile honorary doctrnlc of laws at Queen's t niversity. Belfast. Hon. W. ]•'. Massey -slid tin- 1 1 in licit of education for which more should lie done was the leaching () f history, especially British. Endoubtetlly. the British Empire was greater in everything that mattered, and lmd i! tic more ior humanity than any I'.mpuvA of the past.

DEM AN DS S AT' IS I T ED. DELHI. Novemtier 30. The Afghan Government has .satisfied tin., demands of the British Government in respect to the Barslior and Spiiich'lhi incidents in REM when small detachments of British troops were waylaid and ambuscaded by Waziiis. INDIAN POLITICS. DELHI. Novetniier 30. the result of Afghan activities,

a spvaiai pail.v consist inn cl non-eo-opeiators who believe in entering legish lures in order to ohstruet (oivern,milt, achieved a number of notable successes in the election of the Bengal Cou/.JL. The -veteiain .Minister, Sir Siirciidranalli Uanerjcn, was defeated by a ( omimiaSiroly inikiiown Swarajist, |) u eicr Ray, in Bairnekpore division of liu.i'c.'i'jeas, by a majority of over three thousand. So far there are thirty Swa-i-aji-is elected and thirteen defeated. It is doubtful if they will command ,ni independent majority.

ITALY AND SPAIN. LONDON. December 1. The “Daily Telegraph's’ diplomatic eorie.sjoi.deiit. writing regarding the rialo-Spanish rapprochement. says: “There i> reason to believe that the result will be a series of conventions: firstly, commercial and economic; sceoulv. dipliimatic: and thirdly, strate- , c The conventions in the first eatogol'y already have keen initiated, and those in the second are being drafted. The thii.l series will require to he worked out by-experts.”

The piimary impulse', says the correspondent. is believed to come 1 rom Home. Signor .Mussolini would seem TO have borrowed « leaf from the book of the British Empire, for. closely linked with the economic arrangement there is a w ider scheme for linking up the relations between Italy and Spain, also with Spanish South America, ns the great Latin States on the other side of the ocean are being regarded by Italy as an elastic, but powerful, federation of the T.-iiin stock and culture. teptufu; sroinrs. CAIRO. December 1. Terrific rainstorms have swept away whole villages, and have rendered hundreds of people homeless, in the Assouan region. , Railway lines and telegraphs nave been destroyed. The inhabitants of the flooded village.- are in pitiable distress, lacking food or shelter. The Government of Egypt is despatching tents and food fiom Cairo.