MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1924, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

(“Sydney Sun” Cables)

EGYPTIAN TEXTILE STRIKE SETTLED".*’’

CAIRO, Feb. .. After lasting three months the strike of the textile factory workers at Filature has been settled. The men repudiated the agreement, and a thousand declined to quit, the works, declaring to run them on Soviet lines. The operatives at the Egleton cotton seed factory acted in the same way. The trouble is causing uneasiness -is Nationalist intriguers are suspected. However, when the Filature employees heard that troops were being sent they quitted the works and ilie owners declared a lookout

ALBANIAN PREMIER SHOT AT. LONDON, I'eh. 21. . The Albanian Legation announces that Ahmed Zoogu, the Prime Minify ter, when entering the Assembly at Tirana, a. youth shot at him twice, missing both times. 'I he assailant was arrested, and the sitting of the Assembly continued.

QUEEN ALEXANDRA’S HEALTH (“Sydney Sun” Cables). LONDON, Feb. 24. The state of Queen Alexandra’s health is causing anxiety. 'THE EXHIBITION DIAMOND MINE. LONDON, Fell. 24. Eighty tons of earth from the Kimberley mines containing an unknown number of diamonds for tlie model diamond mine at the Wembley Exhibition arrived at Southampton the day before the dock strike. Fearing possible theft, it was left aboard, the an- _ thorities secretly removing it to tho strongroom in the exhibition grounds. NIAGARA AT SUVA. SUVA, Feb. 24. The Niagara arrived at 2.30 and sailed at noon for Auckland. OLYMPIC GAMES. PARIS, Fob. 25. Energetic action is being taken to grapple with the problem of accommodating the thousands of competitors, and others, at the Olympic Games. The French Government has opened special offices at 19, Boulevard Haassniann, where a register of houses Is kept, and rents will he controlled to prevent, profiteering. Olympic village colonies and an Olympic camp at Tutcnil are also being constructed.

BULGARIAN REVOLUTION REPORT DENIED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, February 25. The Bulgarian Legation denies the report of the revolution in Bulgaria. LIFE-SAVING. LONDON, February 24. The National Lifeboat Institution, which has saved, in all sixty thousand lives, is celebrating its centenary, at which it hopes to raise half a million this year to enable super-motorboats to replace the present hand and .sail boats, greatly adding to its efficiency and usefulness. Many centenary church services are being arranged for March 2nd., also a service for all denominations at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. which ten thousand people s will attend. There will be a banquet ■it which the Prince of Wales presides. A pageant on the Thames of lifeboats'^

represent ing foreign states affiliated to the British Institution. LIMITATION QUESTION. LONDON February 25. ! !>e Mottling Post’s” Rome correspondent says:—l lie League of Nations Conference will probably separate wiiliout doing anything, as all the delegates from the minor states object to their states being limited in naval armaments to the warships they actually had in their possession in November of 1921. Denmark, Holland and Norway claim that such a tonnage i.s insufficient for defence' of their own coasts. Spain claims that she is a great Mediterranean power and that it i.s inconsistent with her dignity to be placed on the same level as the South ‘American Republics. Russia would only bo willing to agree if the Baltic and Black seas were closed to all foreign battleships except the riparian states, which would involve the scrapping of the Dardanelles Agreement reached at Lausanne. Brazil and Chile claim the same tonnage as the Argentine, which is eighty-one thousand tons.

FRENCH FINANCE. Received this day at 8.30 a.in.) LONDON, Fob. 25. The “Morning Post” Paris correspondent pints out the new Finance Bill provides that tax payers paying prior to the expiry of the prescribed period shall receive a discount, while those paying after the period will lie charged an additional ten per cent. OLD AGE PENSIONS. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). Deceived this day at 8.00 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 25. Mr Walsh, speaking at Burnley, in support of Henderson, referred to the suggestion that old age pensions be fifteen shillings payable at sixty five years. He said if Labour were given a real chance, those figures would not lie far off. This country was wealthy enoqgh to afford it and could do it.

A FIRE TRAGEDY. (Received this dav at 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 25. With both hands and one leg tied, a man was seen hanging from a window ledge on the third floor of a building in .Liverpool, while the flames were pouring out of every window. Spectators cheered and shouted to the man to “Hang on. the firemen are coming.” “But. I cannot stick it any longer,” he exclaimed as he released his hold and crashed to the pavement. He was removed to the hospital where he died. Firemen were unable to enter the house which was like a furnace, until it was gutted, then they found the incinerated hoily of a woman. A XGLTCAX ORDINATIONS. Deceived this dav at 9.25 a.m.) February 25. The “New Croc-kford” draws attention to tlic- declining numbers of Anglican ordinations and says that the average for the Inst six years was 287 compared with the Ministry’s average annual loss of seven hundred by deaths aid retirements. It i.s estimated that the mnnlier of clergy under thirty-five throughout the country does not exceed >** a thousand and unless oruSnators are much increased it will soon he impossible to carry on the present parochial system.