BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1924, Page 4

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

[Reutf.hs Telegrams.] NEW TREATMENT 01' WOOL. cheaper cloth. Received this day at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, March 11. H Bliss, Director of wool research speaking at Bradford, disclosed the discovery by which wool was stretched while wet without breaking, thus increasing its length by twenty to 40 pot cent. Though the yarn is not .so good as the liner yarns, it produces fight-weight cloths at a prices which people can afford. CUP FINAL. LONDON, March *l4. At the Liverpool Waterloo Cup final Oshcy Job beat beat White chapped. NEW NAVAL SECRETARY. (Received this day at 9.0 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, March 14. Curtis D. Wilbur, Chief Justice of the Californian Supreme Court, has accepted the office of Secretary of the Navy. free state army officer EXECUTED. (Received this day at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, March 11. Lieut Gaffney of the Free State Army has been hanged at Mountjoy prison for murdering Sergeant Brosr nam at Scartaglin. Brosnam was murdered two days after the shooting of the policeman (cabled on 4th December). Gaffney took Brosnam from the bouse and shot him in revenge. A volunteer named keen has been reprieved. Gaflncy confessed that ho killed Brosnam after Leon had wounded him. Leon was firing under a threat Llmt he would be killed it ho did not. A great crowd of women knelt outside the prison, at the time ol the execution reciting the Rosary. THE OAUDKT .MYSTERY. (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, March 14 The “Morning Post’s” Paris correspondent says that it is understood that the examining Magistrate is convinced that Daudet committed suicide and the murder charge laid by the deceased's father must be abandoned. 11YSTER1 ous disappearance. (Received this day at 9.45 a.m.) PARIS, March 14 The police are mystified by the disappearance of Yin ceil to Huidobro, a Chilian Embassy Attache, who was called from his home by a telephone message. 11 is wife aiterwards was notified that lie had been kidnapped. Huidobro recently published a book entitled “Finished Britannia.” His friends state he has since received threatening letters. ATHENS. March 14. As a result of the outrage at the Embassy Cabinet lias dismissed the Director of Police for incompetence, and lias created a Ministry of Public Safety to maintain order. Cabinet lias also offered a reward of fifty thousand drachmas for the discovery of the culprit.

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VIENNA, March H. .Suspecting that illicit frontier smuggling of crowns was the chief cause of the rapid depreciation of the currency the authorities kept a watch and as a result 28 detectives and a number of merchants were arrested. HOUSING TN BRITAIN. (Received this dav al 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, March 14. In the House of Commons Mr Tl’ardy Jones, who is in charge of the Rent Restriction Bill before the Standing Committee said that between two and three million of the 9,250,090 houses in Britain were dilapidated and unlit for habitation. For sanitary reasons at least a million bouses were a serious menace to health. The local authorities dare not exercise the powers they possessed to deal with these, because the tenants had nowhere else to go. Britain needed one hundred thousand more houses annually for the next ten