MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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IDSTUALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. MERITED INQUEST. LONDON. May 12. Counsel for the Crown told a remarkable story at an inquest in tho Bylloot poisoning ease, concerning tho relations between Mrs Jones and Vaquier. Slit-visited Biarritz on the 7t.li. and met accused who is tin hotel wireless operator, and later accompanied him to another hotel where they lived as man and wife. They afterwards stayed at Paris and London hotels under the same conditions. When a housemaid in the hotel Rus.-ell remonstrated. Mrs Jones asserted that she «iis Yaqiiicr’s wile. Vaquier arrived on Lilli. February at the Blue Anchor Hotel in Byfleet, afterwards accompanying Mrs Jones everywhere, the hotel staff commenting on their relationship. She refused to live with her husband. who is a heavy drinker, and who on tho mornings after bouts was in tlie habit of taking bronio salts. .V party was held in the hotel on the night of the 28th. March. Next morning Vaquier was seen to move a Imttle on tile shell, where -Jones kent- salts. Later Jones took salts and exclaimed: “My Gud, they’re hitter.” His wife examined the dregs and said the salts had been tampered with. While Jones was in his death agony. Vaquier on a pretext that it was lor the doctor, obtained possession of the salts buttle, which Mrs Jones found empty and recently washed out.

Vaquier asked “Is he ini'" and she cplicd. “No. dead, you did it.”

A week later she alleged that Vaquicr admitted. “I did it. Mails, lor vim.”

A cliemsit gave evidence that nuier on Ist. March bought rufi’nienl tryehiiine to kill four persons. The inquest was adjourned.

ISSEE PER ELY .DOMESTIC. TOKIO, May 10. The election is being fought mainly, if mu solely, on the question of whether the present privileged class .government enjoys the confidence of tho country, and whether the electorate endorses the illegal dissolution of the Diet. All are united in an effort to overthrew the .Ministry, an agreement to that end having been reached by the leaders of the three major groups, the Seyukai, the Kenseiku, and the Kakushin parties. The separate party programmes are such as are familiar in the West. They praelicall.v do not exist or if they do their difleronccs are negligibly slight. Ihe appeal to (lie electorate features the popular cry of universal suffrage, ('(institutional government, and Epper House reform. The issue is thus purely domestic. Relations with a foreign Power are not being taken into consideration. Ihe voting passed off quietly ill Tokio. hut reports from the provinces indicate excitement in many places, sometimes ending in bloodshed. The greatest interest centred at Mnrioka. where Tnkaliashi and President Sciyuka are facing the hottest struggle. .•lore than eight hundred canvassers were arrested for an alleged violation ol the election law. Counting will take

ihiee tn-innrrmv. SOVIET DELEGATION INCIDENT ZINOYI E F F’S IT EC I. AI! AT K> X. | "The Times” Skkvick.t (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.)

LONDON. May 11. The "Time.-" Riga correspondent stales the Soviet Government has developed the Berlin incident of searching by the German police of the Soviet trade delegation offices, info a question of the first iiilernntional magnitude. The newspaper " l/.vesfia " is devoting whole page- to what is termed ( .from o*. * •o; oloe i • iota t 0,0 ol Die sovereign rights of I lie Sotiei. SiiimU taneoii.lv. Ziimvicff. totally ignoring Germany's sovereign rights. telegraphically despatched tu the Central Committee of the German Coinmiinist parly, a rail to battle which the " Izvestia " prominently displays. Zinovielf declare': " Parliaineiiiary elections will settle nothing. Civil war alone will end the slruggln between capitalism and Communism. The time is near when we hum lead tho workmen for the last decisive combat. Hie impending French elections -how that C '<■iiiiii it ii isin in France i- al-o boeoming a foriiiidablo force.' The " I'/.vc-lia " editorially declares tluii Germany oitisi make amends lor her unspeakable and ; lianie less attitude towards the Soviet, and must guarantee never a ;aiii to net in a similar man-

TROOPS AND TOWNSPEOPLE CRASH. loti PERSONS KILLED. [“The Times” Skiivim.7 LONDON. May 11. Til,. Colonial Office reports that one hundred townspeople and six membois of the levy force were killed at Kiletik in Mesopotamia on the -iLli. of May as a result of a conflict hy a number of the levy force seizing arms and breaking loose despite tbe offiiers’ efi'oist. on learning that three .'-hop keepers bad assaulted three of their comrades during an altercation. Order has been restored. OLDEST WOMAN DIES. LONDON. May 11. Mrs Ijoek. the oldest unman in Enrol:,- died at Roscommon, aged 111.