MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1924, Page 2

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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[ R kctkks Teeeghams.] F.DI'CA'ITUN ESTIMATES?. March 5. The Board of Education points -out. -*• tin,, though the new estimates are practically tlie same a.s last year, the Board i- likely to have half to three-quarters of a million for MrC. Trevelyan’s (Min-i-tei of Education) re for ms. This is largely oiling to lower children in the • efi ment,-try schools due to the falling hil th rate. LABOFR TO FIGHT CHURCHILL. LONDON, March The We-i mincer Labour Party have decided to i'll it a candidate in opposition to Mr Churchill. The choice will be made to-day. Probably it will be Mr Fenner Brockway, the Secretary-' ol Hie Independent. Labour Party. AI ELI.I LA'S FAi.r. REPORTED. LONDON. March <i. A censorship has been imposed on the Spanish newspapers. preventing the publication of news; but it is reported that .Mellila is in flames. There was rioting Malaga following a meeting. That troops have been ordered to Morocco is also reported. GERMAN GOLD BANK. PARIS, -March 0. The Allied Experts have arranged a Board for the new German Gold Bank, which will consist of seven German and seven Allied neutral directors. BIG DEAL IN DYES. PARIS. March 5. The French Senate has adopted a Bill approving of an agreement with the Rutfiselie Aimliiie company, Whereby France hopes to obtain one hundred "*B. thousand tons of dyestuffs annually. The comuaiiy "ill give France all the re, uired assistance in the preparation of dyestuffs which will be carried out in Toulouse. AIRMEN'S TRAGEDY. [Rkutkhs Tfxegbams.] Received ibis day at 9.15 a.in.) LONDON, March li. At the inquest on the Hying officers Smith and Sergeant Lister, the victims of the Rriggiu Hill disaster evidence nas given that the (light was being made fer Air Ministry fthus--i-n"--tended to illustrate a machine being shot down on fire at a height ol 3.500 feet. At a prearranged signal Smith ignited a flare and commenced “stalling’’ at a speed of a hundred miles an hour at a height of six hundred feet, lie nosed dived and the machine side slipped anil dashed into the trees. The hollies were incinerated. A verdict of death from misadvanture was returned.

TWOPENCE PER ACRE. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). jsrf® Re.eiven this day at- 9.15 a.m.i LONDON, March (>. Pin t of Lord Level'llulme’s estates in tii,- Island of Lewis have been sold for twopence per acre. SCIENCE AND RELIGION. SIR (FIVER LODGE’S VIEW. .'“Sydney Sun’’ Cables). tßeceived this day at 10.10 n.m.) LONDON. March 0. Sir Oliver Lodge, speaking at the Free Church Congress on Ihe rel.-UJou-■sliip ol science to religion, deplored the tendency among religious to regard scientific discoveries as bos: tile to their faith, lie asserted: “The aim of science is Irulh. We live among miracles, on rather, the, 'development of a formative principle which religion calls Hie spirit of God. A conflict occurs between science and religion regarding man’s origin. Genesis described man's innocent state as being followed by a fall, whereas .science claimed there has been a rise, ll must bo admitled the average man has not yet progressed far. He has not fashioned his fife into much dignity and beauty. His ancestors were cave dwellers, with Trails round trees. Man to-day is slum (livelier. The majority of mankind are living under depressing conditions and il is little wonder that they spend hears in the public houses. The wonder of il is that they are so good. Humanity is again tending towards a massacre. Man’s destiny cau be a mutual extermination if lie so wills it.”