MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 March 1924, Page 3

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[llY TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] THE ARMAGH WRECK. LONDON, Feb'. 23. Tho Salvage Association reports that The cargo salved from the Armagh is worth in actual value about £">0,000. The salvage will proceed until the vessel breaks in half when the wreck will be blown up. A WIRELESS TRJr.MI’H. LONDON, Keb. 28. Successful experiments of automatically transmitting wireless messages from sea to London were carried out while the Olympic teas eii route from Southampton to New York, the messages being actually printed tit the General Post Office without human aid. Tho messages were received at ninety words per minute by devices in tho .station when the Olmypie was seven hundred miles distant. FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. LONDON. Feb. 28. The -Ministry of Agriculture has notified a fresh out break of foot and mouth disease. There are eighteen cases at Durham, Norfolk ami .Bradford. .MRS GOSLING’S MERGER. LONDON, Fob. 28. The police officially announce regarding the murder of Mrs Gosling, that her real name is Mrs t!<-anev. They suspect a secret lover whom she met in duly, 192 L through a matrimonial advt. The detectives are seeking a

man about fifty years of age, who posed its a stock-broker called (foodsoit. hut his visits were so furtive that it is difficult to establish his identity. I lie woman’s first husband, Reaney, deserted her twenty-five years ago. lie

died in Australia and left his widow a moderate legacy and believing he died earlier she became bigamously married 1,0 Gosling. Until husbands died in 1920.

JUJSSO-JAP SQUABBLE. TOKIO. Feb. 28. .Semi-official .Foreign Office advices confirm the despatch from \ ladivostock, reporting the arrest of Captain Matsu, a member of the General Staff. The Russian ant lion ties are reported to have searched 11 and arrested without, explanation .Matsu and two interpreters. QUESTION 'OF PRECEDENCE. LONDON, Feb. 29 In presiding tit the Canada Club’s dinner, Sir llumar Greenwood said tho Dominions’* one grievance was that their High Commissioner had no precedence in lhe Motherland’s State 1 unctions. Mr Thomas replying, said the Government was dealing witli the matter, which, like many grievances centuries old, was being removed in six weeks by Labour. GERMANY AND LEAGUE. HEREIN, February 28. In view of Mr .MacDonald’s recent statement it is noteworthy that the Goiniau Foreign -Minister in a speech in the Reichstag, declared the Government did not reject, in principle, the idea of entering the League ol Nations, but it had not received any Invitation from a responsible i|iiaiTor. He further stressed the necessity that a. guarantee of lull, unconditional mctiibc'ship of the League should he extended to Germany, including membership of the League Council.

IMPERIAL WRIELESS. LONDON, Feb. 23. ft iunderstood tliat a eonsidernblo section of the Cabinet did not approve of tile Governmental operation of overseas wireless, preferring private on torprise, but the Cabinet was overborne by the fear of a departure from the Labour Party’s general policy of nationalisation, and decided on nationalism. The Government is consulting India and the Dominions in reference to the Wireless Committee's report. It may possibly be influenced if tbc overseas Governments strongly oppose a complete Post Office system, or recommend joint control, like the Australian plan. BROADCASTING. .'Received this day at SI.O a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 29 The latest broadcasting feat is a concert in New York being relayed from London and board distinctly in Calcutta for 40 minutes.

VITRIOL THROWERS. fßecoived this dnv at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON. Feb. 29. Davina Drown, a mill girl, at Dundee, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for throwing vitriol on Thomas Crombie, married, whose sight was destroyed. Accused pleaded revenge. alleging tliat Crombie posed as a single man and refused to make provision for her infant. The Judge declared the crime out of all proportion to the wrong she bad suffered. Edith Bassett was sentenced to three years for throwing vitriol over Thompson, a London omnibus inspector, who lost the sight of an eye. GIRL FOUND DEAD. (Received this dav at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, Eel). 29. After leaving the music teacher s house at Cliiccliester Alley on .Monday evening Vera Hoad, aged 12, mysteriously disappeared and was discovered dead under a hedge at West Sussex Mental Hospital, half a. mile from her home. There were no signs of a struggle, but there are strangulation marks on the throat. (Received this "dav at 11.45 a.m A LONDON. Feb. 29. It is stated that the girl Hoad was seen on Monday evening in the company of two soldiers.