MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 February 1924, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

THE LUXOR EXCAVATIONS

(Received Ibis day at 9.15 a.m.)

LONDON. February I

A message from Luxor state-, that tbe enormous pink granite sarcophagus is now fail.' exposed. The hd u covered with uu.eiTptiuiij and eiitubiatu.c and carrier a frieze w.tb inirriptioiii in which the I‘Laruch a cartouche appears. L 1 :!r Dole-” tie Lay of kf- or introduced ’I be me:.! .triking figures tire four Goddesses modelled, in deep relict at each corner, and whu.se arms are outstretched to protect the sleeping Pharaoh. The excavators are now trying to raise the heavy lid of the sarcophagus.

CHURCH RE-UNION. LONDON, February 3

Cardinal Merrier, in a Pastoral Letter, reveals new facts regarding the Malines Conference held on 17th. December last. He says that the origin of the conference was due to the l.iege ecelesiastieal authorities’ distress at tin alarming spread of religious apathy. He believes that a happy conclusion till be reached, though slowly “on essential questions." He says “such as tie. Papal Primacy. Neither I, nor my i fiends, intend to sacrifice a single ill tide of the Catholic Apostolic anil Donum Creed to any senseless desire for reunion at any price.”

The first motive was to secure the reunion of all Catholics; secondly, a desire to exercise direct action on the members of t-h© High Church for the purpose of bringing them back to Dome.

THE SAHARA CROSSED. PARIS, Feb. 3

Three Citroen motor ears, fitted with caterpillar wheels left Colomb Rechar, on January 24, and arrived at Fort Bourrein on the Niger on January 31, and ;it Timhuektoo on February 2, thus crossing the Sahara Desert in seven days, compared with 21 days last year, it is declared that the itinerary followed ibis time can be undertaken by wheeled motors, and is a sure and rapid mean# of communication between Algeria and French West Africa.

A PEUFLIAR CASE. SYDNEY. Feb. 1

Oliver John Thompson, stated to be a New Guinea Magistrate, was charged here with taking out of that territory the plumage of protected birds, namely, birds of paradise. The Crown applied for an order for Thompson to be sent back to New Guiena.

The solicitor for Thompson asked for a remand to enable an appeal to be made to the Supreme Court. He said that reports were published in newspapers regarding the ease, which were exaggerated. Thompson was a man who controlled 2b,000 natives in New Guinea, lie never had been arrested, and when he found that the police were seeking hint, he approached them himself. He declared that the case was all some ioke.

A remand of fourteen days was granted, the hail being fixed at tlofK).