MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1924, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. PRINCE OF WALES IN PARIS. PARIS, April 15. The Prince of Wales has arrived from Biarritz and remains in. Paris for two or three days. ARCHBISHOP CIEPLAK GETS . HIS FREEDOM. WARSAW, April 14. Archbishop Cieplak has arrived from Riga. His emaciated features testified to tho privations of imprisonment. He was greeted by a number of ecclesiastical dignitaries, including Monsignor Laiiri, tor; Papal Nuncio and representatives of. many Polish societies. The huge crowds caused the traffic to be held up. Enthusiasts unharnessed the horses and dragged the Archbishop’s carriage!, to tho Cardinal’s palace. • Archbishop Cieplak states that on route from Russia ho was kept for ten (lays in the Cheka headquarters, where he was photographed a dozen times for an unknown purpose. Then he was taken to Seiwerz cm the Latvian frontier and told to leave Russia immediately. He was penniless and had to borrow from a Latvian railwayman the money to take him to Riga.

MAURETANIA'S 54 HOUR JOURNEY. LONDON, April 14 The Mauretania arrived at Cherbourg after a 54 hours’ journey. CLAIM AND COUNTER CLAIM. LONDON, April 14, Before the Admiralty Court, the owners of the Matatua claimed damages from the. American Merchant, while the latter counter claimed in respect to the collision. ENGINE ARRIVING. LONDON, April 14. A message groin Corfu states a new engine for the British world lliglit airboat is arriving to-morrow. The airboat is lying cm the beach between the lake and sea. An attempt to tow it to Corfu by Greek and British destroyers was unsuccessful owing to tho strong surf. A British destroyer will to-day make a last attempt to tow and simultaneously a party of sailors will bo sent overland with the gear to fit iij) the engine on the spot if the towing is unsuccessful. OBITUARY. PARIS. April If. Obituary.-—Roland Bonaparte. GOVER XOR-GENEItAL’S TRAIN COLLIDES WITH TROLLEY. CAPETOWN, April 14 The Covernoi-General’s train, collided with a ganger’s trolley near Gennistuii. There was no harm to the Royal Party. The trolley was rounding a bend and all on it sprang clear except the Dutch ganger who l-.ave.ly endeavoured to topple the 11 < 11 r ,cin the line. The impact when the engine struck it Hung the man and trolley from Hie line The ganger died in the hospital.

CAPETOWN, April 14 His Excellency and Princess Alice had an enthusiastic and brilliant official welcome at Pretoria. NAVAL LAUNCHES TO PATROL KONG MOON. PEKING, April 14. It is arranged that armed naval launches shall escort steamers on the Kongmoon. The British river gunboats Cicala and Tarantula have been assigned this duty. MAJORITY FAVOUR REPUBLIC'. ATHENS, Apri 14. Semi official returns of*The plebiscite show that up to the present there is a seventy-five percent majority in favour of the Republic. A BTG BANKRUPTCY. SUVA, April 14. A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by Pillay Bros. Many thousands of pounds Tire involved, including Indians’ cash deposits. .TAPS RESENT EXCLUSION. TOTCTO, April 14. Baron Sakatani, ex-Minister of Finance, and leader of public opinion, in an interview, said the U.S.A. House of Representatives adoption of the Japanese Exclusion Bill, involved for Japan, a matter of honour and prestige. Viscount Shibusawa an equally prominent man, said: ‘AYo still trust the fairness of American public opinion wiii solve the problem.” Both expressed deep rogret at the passage of the Bi’l Viscount Shibusawa said that the Uni ted States question involved a handful of Japanese immigrants, hut to .Japan it would he more Serious.” We wonder why Americans are so fiimly heat on injuring the teelings of the Japanese, who have done nothing t:> wound American susceptibilities. We fail to understand why the anti-Japanese agitation wins support in the House o' Representatives when Japan has done her honest host to prove herself faithful to the “gentlemen’s agreement.”