MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1924, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTEALIAN AND N.Z: CAIiLE ASSOCIATION. CHRISTIANITY. •' , I'.S.A. CONTKOVKKSY.'' ; '; • NEW. YORK,-December 3. L With' tlie- Christmas -truce over,the. 'ooutiiivtsfav' '•between. they fjmdamenujyk' ists n'nd. Liberals Jiave* religious, denomination. .Even' Catholics ami Jews-'am partk-inaoiiio. . ■ Archbishop Hayes,,, of New , Yorky preached a sermon upon -obedience, declaring’ that- the\ great fundamental truths ' of'*Chrisiianity 'remain.' such. . .whether tliey are be'lioteti or- not. - Prominent Jewish ' Rabbis have declared that "the Bible was'licit the word

of the Lord, and that controversies among the ( hri.stia.iM- must continue so lout' as they consider man :l fallen

being. Heads of Catholic, Jewish, and 1 ’retest ant clergy have issued ir joint New Year’s appeal to the American people, ashing them not to deny their children Mm priceless heritage of religious tenrli-

I’ieminent Episcopalian Laymen. have begun a series of conferences between tin 1 Bishops and the recalcitrant Liberal ministers, at which an endeavour is being made to reconcile the difference.

Meanwhile Sunday’s sermons covered wide ranges. Somo Episcopalian Ministers were asking for the foundaiion of a Modernist- Church. Others declared that Christianity, without paganism is a. bore. Still nlhers declared that the Bible, taken literally, would make Christianity impossible. DOMINION MEMORIALS. LONDON, Dec. 31. The War Graves Commission ' has made a definite proposal in respect to tho upkeep of the four Now Zealand memorials and gardens, offering to undertake the work for approximately £IOO annually. A MER TCA PR OTESTS, PEKIN. Do. . at. The American 'Legation has protested to the (Jovernment regarding the recent capture by bandits of an American lady missionary al Lsatiyung and has demanded that tlie Govermnotil. shall take immediate steps to secure her release and also the pmtection of other Americans in that locality. AN ASSASSIN'S FATHER. TOE 10, Dec. 31. "Unconfirmed reports state that Representative Namha, a member of the Lower House of the Diet, ami lather of Prince llirohito’s assailant has committed suicide as a mark of extreme anguish over his son’s misdeeds. LUXOR WONDERS. LONDON, December 31 . The Luxor correspondent’ of the 'Morning I’unt" says: “Journalists inspected the inter shrine and. catafalque in the Tutankhamen sepulchral hall, a JO,OOO cundlejewci elcetiio lamp illuminating the exqitisiloly-carvtd golden canopy, which i:. about seven and • half feet high. “Neatly against the wivl! y.n»' the i exterior shrine, ■soveuL**'’ ect wiue [ -ijid •title t’cct lnV’h ui.-o a glorious I shimmer •**’ goldwork and bluisli-gtoen i faieuie. A- gold-studded linen pall j nung between the first two shrines. “I't was not'"-'.ortiiy lmw, during 3(io;i \mil's, rlii* .linen had been torn asunder ;,y the wi.iglil of the. geld rosettes until (lie prill now is a pathetic heap of rust(uloiirei! limm. the gulden flowers strewing the Hour between the canopies. Mr Howard Cailer. however, hopes to be aide io recountrucl the pall. “Tim catafalque was made of a light white wood, heavily plastered hitumiriM'il ],iioli and ornameuted with gold. Haying h.ceii free fioth air and dust liiiooghuit- rTT>~r, ...brnev jivwixb shrine is hivato-takmg in* its -bcniity. Imagine a box ten feet'long. Six feet | igh ami eighi f. ci wide, the whole exterior a radiant mass of gleaming gf lil, the surface of which is daintily carved with a scene of Tutankhamen receiving gifts from Osiris, with hawks spreading their protective wings above. Tli* front is ablaze with inscriptions, figures,--bed hieroglyphics, but tho top divided into mystic squares, sonic tiui' green, others brilliantly golden. “Thcro aiv two bars to tlie front door of the second slniii".” LONDON, January 1. Tim seats and strings have been removed front ihe doors, hut tlie bolts ore still in position and hide the final secret. The day. however, is novijar distant when the contents of the siinoplia- _ i us will ho revealed.

Curiosity is rising to fever heat nc,| Lho moment of unveiling approaches. j 'Closer inspection shows Flint the paintings on tho walls of the mortuary chapel are endowed with the delicate Kr;j . Jt - which marked the emancipation of the nriists fiom the conventions which followed the renaissance of art. under the twelfth dynasty. A note--worthy ■ figure of tho walls is a high pricls't. A 'picture of Tutankhamen m: tho wall apparently was drawn from hfe It Aiows'that- he was a handsome vouth.

ACCEPTED THEORY TTPFT. LONDON, December hi. \,i eproisu’.itat ivo of i l -j company which controls in P.riiain the hroadenstinp of concerts from- America, states that- he had '.Ceil ex.-.wimenting for :month;, hut was surprised when he scored a sin-ccS.s- on Friday iti;*ht, Jlo could not explain liov; -it was done, a, the Pittsburg station transmits only o- 100metre wave lengths, uses low power and made no special arrangements to sol’d across the Atlantic. Yet some portions of the' programme were c ieai and other portions lnveleXs-. - 'V- “ vVeprding to theory V;'u<T calojnationw" he added. V should not get numbing from America on' such a short vavedength. 'There is a wonder.nl Hcieiitrlic mystery awaiting solution in connection with the whole business.

HONORS. LONDON, Dec. 31. The New Year Honours include '. - JviiiccKtiioods. .. *•-. - T.efvis Cohen, .Lord Mayor of .Adelaide. for municipal -orviecs ; , Lindo Ferguson-, Dean or .me Medical Faculty,- Otago On - - r<ll, N ' , - „ John '.\r\VW,Y Agent-!, lor Victoria. " '• ' ' Arthur Myers. -ex : M.imspr.Lew Zealand. - 1\ ■ ' . John Vicars. ~f Sydney, for .services to the. fommouwcidih. FRENCH TRADE; PARIS January 1fTlic .great industrialist',’ -VI. Txiucheur, in V speech on France’s ■ Colo•liinl policy, deprecated the dependence

of Franco - on Britain and United States, for wool and cottony'; He declared that ’* is undoubtedly •-possible for the French Colonies- loJnvnish'Frhnco with her supplies of woof and c otton.

_c -The, Ministry .'{or'-vhe 'Colonies, ho ■said, had ’ iiegently appealed directly to> those interested, and tlic Tuveoing ’Chamber fit' -Connnerre. seift mfcrinor sheep to Madagascar, When - , ’aiicr the vaiuy season, /'iw. \yi 11 be jmSsibh*- to say if they 'aro: .acclimatized., iii ’i lni-. yallcV* of "the Nig - !' i!iver. and

in Morocco. ' . y M. t'lncheur estimated that, in a decade. Franco will be largely independent of-'foreign wool imports.

DIXMUDJE’S FAT Is. PARIS', January. 1. ’J !fe .Minister of Marino points out teal all the evidence suggests that the commander of the airship Dixmude was suddenly hurled into the tea while manoeuvring his vessel from the. iront ■if the cabin/ This ,is revealed hv the fuel that he was rearing sen boots, ami iiis night glasses suspended from }iis neck. The rest of the crew were apparently shut up in the cabins beneath the airship’s bull. Thu cabins pi ll lnsljly remained closed alter the airship sank, ft is unlikely therefore that any further bodies will he recovered M! the next storm brings some of the cabins to the surface.

The Dixnnide fell into 250 feet of water, ft is impossible for the divers to investigate, even if the approximate position of the wreck were known.

.Some experts still assort that the hull ol" the Dixmude is drifting above the Sahara Desert, with its machinery out of action, and, that the crew will he found crushed to death by a fall on the desert .sands.