MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. EMPIRE STUDY. LONDON, .fae. 28. As tlm outcome of the. Board of Education’s desire that the Empire Exliibiton should serve to spread Empire teaching in schools, the first number has been issued of a weekly bulletin “Empire Study.” RECENT PATENT. , LONDON, Jan. 28. Recent patents include ail Australian invention for utilization ol the rolling of ships for more power, achieved by an ingenious distribution of weights, which swing from side to side with the roll of the ship. These are connected with the propellers. It v js claimed the device will cheapen ships' motive power.

GERMAN FINANCE. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) BERLIN, dan. 2.. The effect, of Ketenmarks upon the life of the German people is most remarkable. Workers now have regular fixed wages. Though largo classes have to live on. half their pre-war incomes, they now know what they can earn, and tvlmt they can buy. K ’ shops are again full of necessaries am luxuries. Confidence is restored and public and private affairs are icing Conducted on the basis ol sure ex pec ation of a stable currency. 1 heio is . feeling that the whole nation is just waking full of energy to begin Lie new era

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(Received this day at Tl.lo a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 2i. The death of Lenin has (liven ris» to a complex political situation. L‘»lxhevist- chiefs are said to he squabbling behind the scenes. 1 rot sky is „aid to be in disgrace. P/.we/.inski. who is in charge of Lenin’s iuneral nirangemonts, has eo.no to the lore root. . Jle is strong willed and fanatical, and feared by the Moderates, who urge the factious to drop their quarrels and coalesce in. order to solve domestic and foreign questions, especially m view t no early recognition oi the • foreign powers, through a Uni cm \ ' favour Trotsky, without who.,, no uof factions can n • lasting. The military also are lik It t side with Trotsky. In the event of . reconciliation, Klikm (President of ti c Executive Committee) will probn > become President of the Conned o Commissaries, but at present k. off and Stalin are regarded as ( successors to Lenin, if .t » to replace him with one man instead Triumvirate.