BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION VATICAN AND ITAI.V. LONDON, .March Id. The “Daily Telegraph's"’ Rome correspondent states: “The \ oilcan and the Italian Government circles deny the alleged settlement of the Roman question. NEW SCOTS’ CHURCH. COMMISSIONER. LONDON, Alarch 1 l. The Daily JJerald says difficulties in connection with the appointment ol Air James Brown, the Labour ALP . as Lord High Commissioner of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, are arising from the fact that hipredecessors in the office have been !»'crs. A Daily Express ropn-i'iifutive lias

been calling at Mr Brown's whitewashed cottage m a mining village, lie savs he saw a- its background Mis Brown, with a duster iu her band. She si ,id : “It u ill be a dillioill! iob. but it won't make any dill'cretu-e e> Jimmie

or me! we will i'm com'' back when the whole tiling’s over In the house where. Jimmie, the family, -"ml some ol the grandchildren, have been reared.

ELECTION DATE NOT FIXED. BERLIN, -March 13 It, was owing to tlie Opposition insistence oil altering the Government s emergency decrees that President Ebert dissolved the Reichstag. The date of the elections has not been fixed yet. THE PASSION PLAY. PARIS, Alarch 13. Anton Lang, the famous Oberammergatt Passion Player, has decided never t„ play the part of Christ again in the Passion Play. lie says that angels appeared to him in a vision, and rebuked him for the impersonation of Our Lord before heretics and pharisees. I.aug is returning to Oheraniniergati to expiate bis fault in a German Convent. ST. JOHN’S DAY. 'Received this dav at 9.45 a.in.) LONDON. Manli 14. The King, as head of the Order of N't. Joint ol Jerusalem, is holding «i special invest it nI e for Dominion members st. Joint's Day. the 24th. of June.