MISELLNEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1924, Page 2

MISELLNEOUS ITEMS.

[Recters The ec rams.] A YOUTH’S CUT AIKS. LONDON, Alareli 13 The “Daily Express’s” Liege correspondent .says that Emile Deport, aged 18. confessed at Moils to tivo murders, lie said he never went without a revolver. He was delighted in shooting passers-by for sport. He recently found an axe with which he battered a minor to death, simply to try his strength. He did not know the man hut he found sixpence in llis pocket. Deprot is suspected of a mysterious crime in the I*orest ol Soignes where the body oi a young French woman was found with, two Indicts in her head.

PLANT DISEASES. LONDON, March Id. Alt- 1 Icphront, a Scottish fanner, says the Daily Express, as a result of many years’ experiments, carried out in E.nsox at llt'itdtield Hill, with the help of a number ol scientists, claims that- lie has discovered the root cause of the chief diseases in plants. He says he has found the cause ot smut in wheat and of the chief diseases in vegi-l aides. The scvrel, lie stales, lies in flic 1.-n-l n! the rising sap, which is nature's elixir, being the sovereign remedy of all. Enngus and insect pest, attain the tippcilutnd only when tin- >ap llow is cheeked. Mr Hepburn has worked out a scheme of shallow sowing anil subsoil cultivation, by -.pecial implements, ensuring a steady llow of sajt ;tt the most critical dates, which dates have been established by expert inquiry. He claims that his method increases the yield by Irani 20 to 1(1(1 per cent. ) LONDON, Ala reh 12 The --Daily Express’s” Agricultural Editor investigated .Mr Hepburn's claims, cabled yesterday, and vouches , lor the amazing difference in wheat ! grow tits under the old and now metliI ods. I LUXOR SQUABBLE. CAIRO, March 13. Negotiations have failed to settle 1 the dispute over the tomb oi Tutank- ■ liaioeii. It is understood the Egyptian Government; olh-reil Lady CarnaViitt i tn-w concession. hut has now v- it inlt aw i. it. 1.1: AGI ’ E d|-' NATIONS. GENE PA. .March PL Tin- League of Nations Council has opened ns sessions. Lord Parmoor (Brilaini said Britain’s puli-y would alw.-tvs he in support of the League. The Council adopted Signor Salamlra’s 1.-, otiintendat ion-. regarding the policing of the Saar region in Germany, adding a proviso that financial <ondilions did tint allow the gendarmerie to he further developed. Lord Parmoor said tit - gendarmerie should he developed to allow o! a withdrawal if on ■ Saar of the Freiteh occupation .MEAT PROFITEERS. LONDON, Match PI. 'Ua- annual meeting of the National Meat Trades Association passed a resolution protesting againet the allegation ot profiteering, and inviting ail independent inquiry. Mr Edwards, the mover, said that there wits a general fall in meal prices alter the war. New Zealanders and Australians pooled their production of mutton, with their Got o ament’s sanciionfi and thus spread their moat world-wide, in order to keen tip the prices, with the result

that Colonial mutton was now one hundred per cent above pre-war rates. The Colonies were now pooling their wool, hence the high price of clothing. DEFENCE. ACT. DANNEYFRKM, March 11. - Ivor Ueniig Rrymor Watkins, a tor-rip-rial who had failed to tender the personal service required of him. was Jirted five pounds and deprived of civil tights for five years, the ease being a vety bad one, according to the defence authorities.