MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1923, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

IUHTI’.ALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION*. CLAMOURING FOR YF.XIZULUS. A'TJJ FNS, Dee. 3. With banners inscribed, “Yonizelos, come and save us.” a hundred thousand people carried out a demonstration in the public square, and adopted a resolution that the presence in Greece ol Yonizelos, to rescue tho country from its difficulties, was an urgent* national necessity. .Many former opponents of Yonizelos are actively supporting a growing movement for his recall front Paris where lie is now residing.

SHEFFIELD MfNM DISASTER. [RKirn-tits Tf.em; i;avs."| LONDON. Dee. 3. The scene of the mine disaster teas Nunnery Colliery. A train of twenty tubs, each containing about four men, was being drawn up the inclined road from the pit bottom when tile rope snapped and the train dashed back at a terrific speed for several hundred yards, and hurled tubs and passengers together into a piled mass. Resell** work is proceeding in the presence of a great crowd. The number of dead is still unknown. Six mutilated and unrecognisable bodies have been recovered, and a dozen injured have been sent lo the hospital. RUSSIAN WHEAT. LONDON.' December I. Tin* “Morning Pest.” says: ‘The first consignment of grain front Russia since the war is due at Hull < n December !)th. It comprises twentyfive hundred quarters each of wheat and barley. Other cargoes are due at Southampton, and Manchester. A leading representative of the Hull Grain 'Trade, prophesies that lltil! in twelve months will remain its former trade with Russia. SKY MX KILLED. LONDON, Dee. 3. The Nunnery disaster proved loss serious than was previously anticipated. The rescue work is completed. All the bodies that have been recovered except two. were literally cut in half. The final list of casualties is seven killed and thirty-six injured. DAUDMT MUST ERA'. PARIS, Dee. 3.

In connection with the finding of ihe body of Philippe Daiulet, the 15-year-old son of Alphuim Daiulet (Leader of the Fiench Royalist. Party! in a taxi with a bullet in his head, the Kditnr of the Anarchist paper “Libertain.*” has declared fo-da.v that he is convinced that. Philippe Daiulet, who he says, had several times run away, from home, returned for the purpose of killing his own father, hut he thought better of it, and killed himself in a. fit of depression. ATHLKTK'S. LONDON. Dec. 3. In the Inter-Varsity relay races. Oxford beat Cambridge by winning four events t'i one. M.MGTiNI COY'S PA f K..VIS. i LONDON, December *). At the. annua] meeting of the Mat - .■uni Wireless Company. Signet Marco;.i stated that the new system of direr* tim'd wireli.ss communication aunouu *• ed last June has been .successfully textid between Kngland and St. Vincent ]si, nds. distance i f ‘2250 miles. If j it*— (**-.-Rated only a fraction ot tin* electrical energy hitherto found necessary. The company unv. owned KitiO patent*!, and application' |V>r four hundred otheia were pending. Claims have been made against tin* British Government in con-i-*ction with ike use of the company's patents. Lord Biickmaster has been appointed to arbitrate. (EDITOR SENTENCED. LONDON, Dec. 3. Mr Parker Means, editor of the “Sporting Tiuu*s” otherwise known as tin* “ I'ink ’l’m.” was sentenced to four months imprisonment on a charge uf sending obscene mailer through the past. The police Haled that the newspaper contained an article, which was full of degrading suggestions, regarding Sherwood Anderson’s American novel, “Many Marriages.” The Judge commenting on the fact that manv prominent authors bad given evidence for the (lotence. warned the jury that literary people lived in a world of ilieir own, and told the jurymen that they must regard themselves as members of tbe public who might, scan the bookstalls for suitable reading.