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Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1924, Page 3

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BURIAL LIKE A AY EDGING. I.NODON, Feb. 2

A funeral like a wedding service was witnessed at Burton, in Cheshire, on the occasion of ibe burial of the mother of General Cosgrove. A’.C. At her request, the i bttrcli was llorally deep rated, and the clergy wore white s toll's. The service Was lolly choral, the church bill--, rang out wedding peals, and the Hags were not halfmasted. but were flown mastheaded. The clergyman said Air, Cosgrove bad told him she wanted the service to be the cheeriest possible, “for” she said, “there is only half of rno here, and 1 am looking forward to the day of my dentil a, the greatest day of happiness I can conceive, for then I shall be reunited to my dear husband."

A Alls'IONA I! Y’S ABYEXTURI LONDON. Feb. 2

After 20 years missionary work among the Amazonian Indian tribes, Father Can Elives, the cousin of the 1 a 1 ,- Ce'rvn.-c Elives. returned borne to

i, ■ 11 p.■ i ;11 ■ . Having persuaded a native riiiei to renounce polygamy, one In- respected wive-; revengefully pursued the missionary and bis native

servant Imm village to village, until -be gained access to the but where lie was staying, and titer" she poisoned their food. The native died, and tho priest boomne desperately ill, bill bis life was saved bv devoted Indians.

LENIN’S SUCCESSOR. LONDON. February

The “Ob-eiver’.s” Alosenw cot respondent says Kykoir will succeed Lenin as President of the Council. Comniissnir Kamem-IT wili heroine President of the Council of Labour and Delence; Dzerzhinsky. President ol the Economic Council, succeeding liykofl'. Tile ‘‘Sunday Express" confirming tids. say, that Rykuff was burn in 1881,

at Saratov, of peasant | meats. and has been a revolutionary from bis school days. While wodkiug a,-. an underground revolutionary he spent seven mid a half years in prison and was more than nine deported. Personally h" i- a somewhat sickly man. an assiduous playgoer, dresses shabbily, and ptofer.s walking to motoring, lie is a clever economist. .AIR GAb'VI.Vs PREDK LION. PRESENT GOVERNMENT CANNOT EAST. iftacaived this day at N a.m.i London. Eebnuiry . Mi Garvin, writing in the “Observer” Older tile heading “Can the Unionists Awaken.” -ays the present situation is not exactly honest lor anyone. AW, are more Ilian ever louvineed that the present I'arlitiment iniiiioi. last: long. ’.I .be next light will come before either of the older parlies i- icady. The framing of another policy—.social, imperial, and foreign- is a task which cannot: be done in a hurry, Gut the beginning can u ; he delayed. The Puiouists’ chief | danger is their sloivm-, in realising that another elecrioii may come in five mouths. A.XNI )l N't 'LAI ENT t lIEERKD. LONDON, February 2. The ‘‘Sunday Express" Mm.run correspondent says that cheers gnele I I tt miffs reading to the Social 1 1 1 I'nn-j get-- of lhe in'He ef I! linin’ n-e'ig-j I! i t ll - The delegates pa-sod a resnlu- j tlt.M ef gleetings 1" ilm British Go-| evreii'em. The news spread like wild- | I'.-, dll. fine., ejve.td elleerillg. The n • pa; n add- t hat the 111 it i-li j ■ .1. -11 who visit.'. ll ! Russia recent- : ly dcelnrc that Bus,iu i- toady with I utli’i::. 1 . to itfty tgilhe:. : ‘..‘A