MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1924, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N. 7.. CARLE ASSOCIATION

FAKE TELEGRAM FINK. LONDON, Jail. 25

Rev Karran, cabled on the 3rd. was fined £lO and £2O sterling costs for sending the Bishop uf Sodor and Alan a telegram signed “Baldwin,” arranging for a meeting tit Liverpool. Karran explained that he concocted the telegram as a joke to cheer a girl passenger, who was threatened with sea sickness. It was intended to suggest that Air Baldwin wanted to offer the Bishop an English Bishopric, of which there had been local rumours. WJR EL ESS BROADCASTING. LONDON, Jan. 25. The British Broadcasting Company is planning a relay station at l’iymouth, Leeds, Liverpool, Hull, Edinburgh, Dnindee, and Belfast. -Ships aro hearing London programmes as far distant as Port Said. DOCTORS’ FEES. LONDON, Jan. 25. The Court of Enquiry lias fixed the panel doctors’ capitation fee of Us. recommending that it remain in force for three years. ITA LO-G ERAI A X AGR EE AIEX T. PARIS, Jan. 25. The Roumanian Government has decided to cancel the request to France, for a loan of one hundred million francs to which it is understood the French Government was favourable.

INDIAN STRIKE. DELHI, Jan. 20. An insignificant strike ol Calcutta mill hands, originating a few days ago, through the non-payment ol the bonus at the Standard Mills, lias now suddenly extended. SevenTl mills have closed. About- eleven thousand operatives are involved. A THREAT OF WAR. TOKIO, .Tan. 20. The Japanese House of Poors was the scene of a double .sensation. Al. Sakatini, ex-M mister of Ethical inn, in supplementing Baron Matsui’s remarks re exclusion laws, declared: "The seeds of a future world war will he sown il the United States enacts the propoosd exclusion law. The Japanese cannot submit to the humiliation ot being treated tike Negroes. Il requires no prophet to predict a crisis in the Atnerican-Japauese relations if tho measure passes.”

Later. Marquis 'J’okugawa. in making his first address in ten years, astounded his Conservative colleagues by a heated attack against the Government, declaring that the present state of Japanese politics threatens to precipitate a revolution, because of the excessive representation of the Peerage in the Kiyoura Cabinet. LENIN’S HEATH. LONDON, Jail. 20 The "Daily Express s” Moscow coirespondent says:—M. Renin’s body "ill tie enshrined on Sunday in a deep mausoleum fitted with .electric lights and heating apparatus. The coffin will be visible from outside. Here it will remain till the final disposition is decided

"POll. it , . thniited that 100,001) people hav,- 1 1 1 railv viewed the body, despite the cold, which is so intense that the men digging on the site of the mausoleum were compelled to use dynamite in break up the ground. SOUTH AFRICA. CAPETOWN, Jan. 20 The Union Rarliament was opened try the Governor-General, Lord Athloue, with the accustomed ceremonial. The scene in the Senate State Chamber was mere brilliant than usual, owing to an unusually birge gathering of notable persons, belli belonging to the Union and overseas. Lord Athloue, in his speech, relerto the Imperial and Economic Conferences, said that if the resolutions passed by the latter were put- into operation they would open up wider markets overseas for South African preducts. He gave details of new railway construction, including a hue to Northern Zululand. which would he required for the opening up of a hirge traci where cotton growing is being successfully carried on. He said the railway trailic had shown a marked improvement, as the result of which, the fares and rates, especially on agricultural products and oil commodities materially affecting the cost of living.

AII'RDERKRS rrONOURED

PARIS, January 25. Flower* blooming on the grave of a guillotined murderer have revealed to tne police the existence of a- secret so-,-icty whose object is the honouring ui executed criminals as martyrs to man’s brutality. The l'Tciich law forbids any mark to be put on the grave ot a guillotined person. Some members of society, exclusively women, believe capital* punishment barbarous. The murderer thus honoured was executed for shooting, with a revolver, two policemen. The grave bore the society's inscription : “Died bravely. WIRELESS Fit ADDS. LONDON. January 25. The tremendous vogue of wireless ha- provided tricksters with the latest opportunity for fraud. They visit suburban houses possessing aerials, an<l represent themselves as Dost Office officials. and if the housekeeper cannot produce a license they line her a sovereign. If a license is produced, the trickster tinkers with the receiving set. asserts the uuchauisin is defective, and must be properly examined. Expensive sets are thus stolen.

PAPER TRADE. OTTAWA. January 25. V Montreal message says that the Canadian Puli' Paper Association's report states that it has a Government assurance that pending negotiations „r 0 hope of a better trade agreement vitlt Australia. The report declares that the present Government’s tariff changes have not, helped the paper pulp business, but have opened the door to British competition. The effect of this is apparent in a decline in Canada’s newsprint exports to* Britain from 39.000 tons in 1920, to 6.525 tons in 1923. ITALIAN ELECTIONS. HOME. January 25. \ decree has been published fixing the Italian elections for the 6th. of April.