MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION V MOSCOW MANIFESTO. .LONDON' Feh |:t. The Moscow Internationale has issued a manifesto “to the workers of | the world," in which it asks the proletariat not. to rely on Die present British Socialist ('mv.-rnment, which, it says, promises nothing good for the workers. It says: “Results will be possible only when the capitalists are deprived of their property by revolution." Tile manifesto urge- the widest propaganda in favour . i lie' independence of India. Ireland and K.tl.\ | it. “(,)('(> MAIMS" F11..M. ROME. Feh. Id. The Magistrates enquiring into the “Quo Vadis" lion tragedy have seized the section of the film containing the reproduction ot the t rugeih. The Operator who was filming the .-eeue realised the enmiiiereiai possibilities of a lion mangling nul people, and he continued to take tie pictures. The “Coi'rcu'e d’ltalia" demands the tlt'st ruction of the film, it's owners say:—"The law can prevent our reproducing the episode in Italy, but we can reproduce it abroad.” KI.F KI.I'X KI.AX SPLIT. NEW YORK. Feh. IT

An Atlantia i Georgia) message says that an interesting development in connect ton with the Kin Klux Klan is disclosed in a contract mil bargain whereby Colonel William Simmons, tound-'r nl' the Klan. in consideration ot 1F>, (If I!) dollars cash, ha- rc-igned the olliee ot emperor, and lias disposed ol all his interest in the organisation. therebv assuring the devolution of the so-eaihd ompemrship upon Dr Hiram Evans, against, whose faction Simmons promises Lo dismiss all pending litigation. .Meanwhile the Klan officials claim that they are reliably informed that Simmons. despite his promised retirement, has in Florida placed himself at the head of a new organisation called the Knights of Die Flaming Kworl. It is expected that the Knights and the Klan may later dispute the supremacy of the leadership ni the American Fascisms.

FALL IX STKRLIXG. XKW YORK, February IT Yesterday the L' sterling dropped nearly A cents In pi!)-,', due to .apprehensions respecting the docker-' strike in Kngland. RH K.\.VAX’S HELICOPTER. LONDON. Feb. IT The “Daily Chronicle" states Mr Louis Brennan, the inventor, i- waiting for line weather to carry out the first open air tests of his helicopter, with which he does not. wisli In lake undue risks. The helicopter has already risen inside a shed to a height of -JOl't. carrying a pilot end a load, of 10(10 pounds, and it hovered for a quarter of an hour over a given spot. Mr Brennan says the machine is unutlorly unlike the ordinary aeroplane, and will Ik* an eye-opener lo the world. N./. (Til I. L HI) MEAT EX I’FR fMKNT LONDON". February IT Re] lying in the llou-c of ('omniori to a question regarding the exportation j of beef from Australia chilled instead ! of frog.cn. Mr Wheatley said that arrangements laid been made IMr an experimental shipment of chilled heel’ tl'i tiled by a special pi l i na l ivc pmci ss from New /.calami to IP dam for examination by a departmental commit liv v. Inch tin, coic i.!.m in" i lie usp o| preservative' in food. NAIIAC BIfOSBIIATE VOTE. [Rei'tkks Tta.Kiiit.tMs.J yße.cueJ this day at 10 u.m. l LONDON, Feb. IT ill*. estimate.-, use!’.vis BlUfi.iOT, this bvmg the Fnited Kingdom’s share of the IT lit 1 1< • r Jb'JTj.l •(>() eitpilal rei|uired for the .Varan Island phosphate undertaking. Tins sum will he paid to the [fnited Kingdom representative on the British Phosphate Commission, who will pay into the Fnited Kingdom exchequer an equivalent sum, representing the Covernment’s share ul the surplus profits u! the undertaking tor the period, to the both, of June. IbLT Interest will not he payable on further capital provided.

TO BK 01’KX'FD NFXT WJXTKI!

(Received this dav at 10 a.m.l CAIRO. Feh. 13

I,uxor messages state that the sarcophagus will nut be fully opened until next winter.' Twenty people witnessed the opening yesterday, but no journalist was included. I iio company found the proceeding so enthralling that mill' one came up lor a breath oi I'resli air during the hour and n-'|unr-ter. though the heat, in the tomb was overpowering, There will be a press interview Oidav, and then the photographic records of the collin will he completed and the lid of the sarcophagus lowered until next season. AIOtTt.XIXH ST A.MIS 1'°!!, I.KMXr.oxnox. r-'b. 3. Russia lias issued mourning -tamps bearing beiiio's photograph, and o compelling their use for n-