MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 February 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION EMPIRE DEI’ARTAIENT STORE LONDON. Feb. 7. A proposal is afoot to establish huge departmental stores to retail the Empire’s products; also for selling wholesale raw materials in an eight floored building to be built on -m imposing Strand site at the south-western corner of Wellington Street. It is suggested that the producers should provide it million of the capital, the profits to be divided on a lifty-lifly basis. One floor is to be reserved for buyers on a Club scheme. The proposal has, however. not yet reached eonciele form. NEW CZAR OF IH’SSJA. CROWNING NO BI.ITF. LONDON. Feb. 7. The Daily .Mail’s Riga eorresp.mdeut .says the reported crowning of Dm ml Duke Cyril at Paris is no bluff. He is now flooding Russia with ions of autiSemetie propaganda which i - falling on fertile ground. T lie new Czar promises tin' peasants that they can retain possession of their land. He is only insisting on the return of the laclories to their former owners. AIR BRIX’E IN TER KEY. CONSTANTINOPLE. Feb. 7. Mr Bruce, the Commonwealth Premier, has arrived. He visits the battlefields on Gallipoli in which Australians are interested. POINCARE GETS DICTATORIAL POWERS. PARTS. February 0. The Chamber of Deputies, by 2A2 to IT voted to grant the Government the desired power to legislate by decrees. Tl'e Radical Socialists did not vole. Imping the bourgeois parties would defeat- the Government. There "as tumult after the vote, the Premier leaving the Chamber, the session having to close.

A DIVORCE t AS I LONDON. February 7. “My ease i- a complete denial of the ."•bomiltahle cha rw-aid Alt's f.egge in reply to her husband .Major-General Icgge’s allegations that sin' bad misconducted herself wiili a (.T-ieiao serve ii 1 f.a.ndnli'. Mrs l.ogge coint-ndcd in evidence that General l.egge had placed I.audotf in a position of respousihility in tile household, and had ordered him In massage her leg. uliieh had been injured in an accident. bandeff, in his evidence, admitted that lie was frequently in the respondent's room when she was in bed, but lie denied any miseond-.n-l. The Judge, in summing up. said lie regretted that the respondent was not rep resell led by counsel, by whom bar ease would have been properly conducted Iter husband bad provided ample funds for her. Tbe jury must consider whether her conduct el tbe ease was due to her ignoraie-e of legal pro'-edure, or whether there might not have lieen a good deal of art in it. ! !■. petitioner obtained it divorce dei tee \V!iimi ilie verdict u"s announced, the tv: | oi.di-id -aid: "Your hardship has dim', it disgraceful partiality " LUXOR Tit.MBS I .ON DON. I el-run i y 7 The “Alii-ning Post'-. ..I'c.-bd - ' respondent at l.ttxor AD n vivid impression of tin- -au oph.ign.. itia'ii. of a goddess who ,-sands in the -orth-ca.si <"o’"uer n-gaidiitg all who dare approach v. itli a mal-.-vi lent jade green eye. She stands with arms and wings outstretched, clinging to the aU'.'eopba- j go. The face is seducin': cate, finely chiselled foal tire ■ arc tenon. ; isa of some of the ni" ! beaut’■el j Fry ft inn women of te-d'iy. H>*- d- : dt-sf, wears a beautiful perimnl of lur j quoi.se and ultramarine, with touches of | geld. The armlets and anklets repeat the same decorative scheme. A serpent "tithes upon her bead. Sister goddesses in similar attitudes at the other corners are differentiated only by the hear* ornaments. GAIKO, FeHuary 7. The lifting of the granite lid of the sarcophagus which is (irmly rocketed , in and eemenied. is causing Afr If. Gar- I Ur much trouble, especially as the lid is slightly eraeked across. Mr Carter i.s now in Cairo, purchasing fresh gear to carry out this fre.-li ticklish operation. INDIA’S DEMAND. DELHI, February 7. j Alt Indian Nationalist Baity lias been i formed in the Assembly, with a mem- I be rail ip of 72. and in the House of !-IA. , The Party intends to use its majority i to adopt a resolution to-morrow asking lor a round-table conference to draft a scheme of full responsible Government. Failing a Government, response, llic Patty intends to refuse .supplies mxt month on tbe occasion of the Bud-

get discussion. The Assembly adopted by < i to •”>. votes against the Government. An Opposition noii-elficia! resolution urging the imposition of a counterit iling duty on South African coal to the extent of the bounty allowed by lie Fuioii Government. Cbr diaries limes (a .Member ol the Chamber of Commerce) declared the existing conditions were favourable if the coal industry utilised them, there Was .11) need of special protection. RFSSO-ITAI.O TREATY. [ R EUTr.ns Tee non ams . ] (Received this day a! 8 a.m.' ROAI'E, February 8. The I talo-R U'siau Treaty definitely re-establishes political relations and the Italian Government is appointing an Ambassador to .Moscow, immediately. PRINCE OK WALES INHERED. [RKr TEU S T Et.KO !! AM S. ] (Received this day at 8 a.m.i LONDON, February 8. The Prince of Wales broke his collarbone, whilst exercising bis hunter. A RICH BRIDE. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) OTTAWA. Fob. 8. ,T. R. Booth, aged 07, Canada’s most i famous lumberman, has transierred a j million sterling as a dowry to Eds ! Booth, bis grand-daughter, who will be married next week to Prince Eric ot Denmark. EXECUTED P>Y LETHAL GAS. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) NF.AA' YORK, February 8. At Carson City. Nevada, Gee Jon, n Chinese, was convicted of slaying Aluy during a ■ tong war or faction 1 light and was executed by lethal gas ' in the local penitentiary. This is the • iirst time the method was employed in ; United States. The condemned man ■ was strapped in a hermetically sealed , dl and was dead thirty seconds after ’ the gas was turned on The execution v.is viewed through windows.