MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1924, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[uv TI'XHiHAPH —l'lill PHUSS ASSOCIATION.J CANADIAN HON US SCHEME. I LONDON, March 2. Described ns Die first bonus liner Hi,' Mont rose left for Canada with four j hundred settlors under tho new scheme which entitles omni-ants to a honus of three pounds paid hy the Canadian I Covci-nnicnt at the port ol dehaiCation. ' NEW DEEM.INC RECORD 1 HOME, March lb ' A new duelling endurance record has '• been established hy two Raima swords--1 man, who for 210 minutes tried unsuccessfully to Kill each other. Only through exhaustion and loss ol hlood ' were they finally separated ami they • refused to Ire reconciled. deah'iwy ' ov«i cl hide v.-a> the caw: of the duel. administrator dies. [Rotters Tki.kcrams.] CAPETOWN, March 2 i Obituary.—Sir Cornelius AVessels, administrator of the Orange Tree State. THE PRYSTQUF. OF HRTTISII CURLS. LONDON. 31.ir,!! 2. Sir James Canlilo, at Xorihampinn. .said British l>ahies were the finest specimens of humanity horn into tin l world, this being due to the magnificent strain of their mothers and grandmothers. The pliysupio ol Bri;nost girls at. the present day were most gierls at the present day were

tailor than their mothers. SCOTCHMEN AND WELSHMEN. LONDON. March Mr Ramsay .MacDonald at the A elsh National Isan<|iiet in London, raid ■ Welshmen and Scotchmen were like Joseph in Egypt, who heal come dmvn from his own lands in Canaan for the good of tlie foreign people, at the .same time being a conservai ire ul conservatives. He regretted that Hie smaller distinctions winch used to no so pminiuoilt in Wales and Scotland were fast disappearing. ‘•There is one tiling.” Mr MacDonald said, ‘‘we ought never forget. It is that variety of individuality alone can save the world.’’ IRISH CARDINAL'S STRICT!'RESt LONDON. Match . Cardinal Login? (Primate of Ireland) I ir. an outspoken Denton pastniaL roj garding the insufficiency oi women s [dress, says : “Ireland is justly proud of Ihe reserve and the scrupulous | modesty of her women, hut: whether from the loss of Hu’l tenderness of conscience or from n .slavish devotion ;o fashion, no can pride ourselves on this no longer! Ihe dress, or rather tlie want of dress, ot women at the present day, is a crying scandal. There seems to !«» rivalry a.s to how - little ti.v\ can wear without incurring universal reprohr.tioii. Communion should he ret used to women who present themselves in uuhecoining dresses. Dancing should never he continued until the small hours.” Cardinal Login* added that In* knownothing of the imported dances. Imt says: “Their names were bizarre, and .some id! iik* that they me objectionable on the score oi morality. DTXMI'DE’S end. PARIS. March 2. Some fishermen at Seiaeca. in Sicily have discovered at the mouth of the river Belico. a large number of objects indicating the French airship Dixrnudc rank nearby Sciacea. Ihe objects include two wireless appliances, parachutes, a leather helmet, a French flag and visiting cards with the name oi Pk c-ho.