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Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUBTBALXAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PROHIBITION iN NORWAY. CHRISTIANIA, Jan. 20. The police and prelects oi Norway, throughout the country, except a. fen, report against prohibition’s effect. They say the stoppage of spirits has had* results that are disappointing. Drunkenness, they state, has increased. Respect for the law has decreased. There were last year no evil results from a repeal ol prohibition m respect to strong wine. EGYPT’S NEW PREMIER. CAIRO, Jan. 20. The Egyptian Cabinet has resigned. The King of Egypt has asked the present Premier, however, to retain office till he returns from a visit to the Suez Canal. The King on January 25th will doubtless ask Zaghlul (Nationalist leader; to form a new government for Egypt.

THE WORLD RULED BY WOMEN LONDON. January 21.

The “Daily Mail" says that a.s the women more and more outnumber the men they will become tin* governing ,ex and will keep the males in a minority This means that sex control in mac to come, when the world will he like a giant beehive, will he dominated and controlled hy a select committee of queens. This pictme is presented hy Doctor Schulte Vaertiugs in a treatise ei hio-sociology.

Professor ,]. Thomson in a review of the treatise recalls Professor Wheeler’s stafcmenl, that human and insect societies are so similar that it is difficult to detect any really fundamental biological difference between them.

KISSING BANNED. LONDON, January 21

The practice ol French boxers resoundingly ki.-.siug the cheeks of their opponents before and after a fight, has been prohibited I y the Boxing Federation decreeing that kissing he replaced hy handshakes on the ground that it is unliygenic and contrary to decorum. DUTCH NEW GUINEA. PLANS OF AMBITIOUS DUKE. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) LONDON'. January 21. The “Daily Mail's” H ague correqioiiflont. says reports from the Dutch East Indies state that Duke Adolpha of Mecklenburg, a brother of Prince Henry of the Netherlands, lias prepared elaborate plans lor the development of Dutch New Guinea, those constituting a menace to Holland. Adolph intends establishing a State 1 within State and seeks a charter confirming a monopoly over a territory much larger than Holland; also the right to construct a port, settle the coast and hinterland. establish his own judicial system and police force. He also seeks monopolies covering employment and ganie rights.

BOGUS ARISTOCRATS. ROME, January 21. .Mussolini is determined to check the growing number of persons posing as Italian noblemen and has appointed a Heraldic Commission with authority to publish an annual list of all possessing genuine titles. Anyone using a title in v, hirli he is not entitled v. dt he lined. Mussolini also gives anthoiit,' to "a prison offenders. EMPIRE 'WIRELESS. [Rkutkus Tuf.kotumh. I (Received this dav at II ”• • a m.) LONDON. Jaii. UK in tlie Commons, Mr V, ortlniwOT Lynns anii'ni...'cd that no agrceim ::t vva:-, reached between the Port Mince and Marconi regarding Empire wireless. MORE IMMIGRANTS FOR N.Z. LONDON, Jan. 19. Du rug the past three weeks. 1130 assisted emigrants, including eighty domestics, have sailed for New Zealand. A schoolboy emigration scheme begins in February, when eight hoys will sail. MEMORIAL TO A DOG. PARIS, Jan. 21. The civil Court lias deedu Hut a clause in Princess Lobanoff Rostovsky’s will, wherein she left a tli >iiss;» ,1 st- rling for the erection of a memorial to a pet dog in the Paris cemetery, must bo respected to the letter.