MISELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1924, Page 2

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS

ACSTIULIAN AND N.Z- CABLE ASSOCIATION. ALDERSHOT REVIEW. KIND'S HORSE RESTIVE. LONDON. June I<l. At the close of tile Royal Review at Aldershot the King intended riding a horse behind the Queen's carriage. The demonstrative cheering of the crowds caused the horse to become restive and after two attempts the King remarked that the luir.-e cannot face it. He turned the animal’s head to tlic open plain and returned to Aldershot by a quieter route. The review comprised twenty thousand troops, all arms, and Kill field guns. ALBANIAN PREMIER Til It EATEN El). ROME. June Tt. Vriono, the ex-l’rime Minister of Alhattiti. was attacked by students on Ins arrival at Bari. The police frustrated tt threat to lynch him. hut his assailants managed to thrash hint with sticks. Vrioiii declares the insurgents have surrounded Tirana which t- in a hopeless position. CREEK POLITICS. LONDON. June 10 The "Daily Express” Athen’s correspondent states that Dcneral CnndyIts, the War .Minister, has resigned. The Cabinet accuses iln* Premier of harbouring sinister Communist proposals. The Foreign and Rinanco .Ministers have also resigned and it is considered the -Ministry is likely to fall owina: to lhe dissensions of the Left Wing K.e-nihlicaiis. INDIANS KILLED IN RIOT. DELHI, June 10 Rioting ;tt Calcutta, resulting iti the deaths of three Sikhs and serious injuries to seven others ineluding a subinspector of police, occurred as the outcome of rumours that Sikh workmen who were excavating nt King Deorge's dock. Kiddernore, were kidnapping .Mtihoinmedan children for human sacrifice. This is the culmination of rumours that had been current for some days and which previously led to the death of six workmen.

VALRARLE RACEHORSES LET LOOSE. LONDON. June •<>

An extraordinary outrage is reported from Yasoy’s training stables at Doncaster. The stable doors were deliberately opened at midnight and fourteen valuable racehorses were driven out. The horses stampeded throughout the night ami four were seriouslv injured.

A DOCTORS’ CARELESSNESS. PARIS. June 10. The Court has ordered a hospital surgeon to pay ten thousand francs damages to a patient who had to undergo a second operation owing to a piece of gutter, being left in the incision during the lit-l operation. SOVIET EXPRESS WRECKED. lONDO.n. .lime It:. The "Daily Telegraph's" Riga correspond nit states the express between .Moscow and Riga, carrying prominent Soviet ollicials. was wrecked by bombs thrown . y .anti-Soviet conspirators as a reprisal for the wave of terrorism inaugurated by the Russian Oovernmeni against its political opponents. A .-mail army ol Red troops were rushed to the pi,ate uml have thrown up barbed wire defence- around tin* whole districls while searching for lilt* bombs.

I’AIII*:NTS POISONKI). LONDON, dune 1(1 The "Daily Kxpress” says:—William Laurie King, aged 22, was arrested at Kdinbiirgh in connection with the death of his mother, who is the wile ol a prominent chartered accountiint and vicv tno<.ierntor ** t" tho Hij^n ( oiistahles ol Kdinhurgh, one of the ino-t ancient bodies in Scotland. -Mr and .Mrs King, alter attending tl;e theatre on May 2<Tth. had slipper. They becalm* violently ill. Mr King recovered. but Mrs King died in ng oi ’ during tlu* night.

A Li HUMAN V FUSION. LONDON, dune 11. The "Daily Telegraph's" political observer say-: "The Itrili'h (ioveriimcnt is now in posse—ioii of a lull explanation Irma the Wilhelnistrnsso regarding the position as io (lerniaiiy ami Russia. The Cernmii (ioveriimcnt is fully alive to the advantages of trade with Russia. Imt it affirms that tin* 801-hevik propaganda is increasing. Ii declares that it holds proof that every motV of the (iermaii Communists, including active rebellion. Ini- been undertaken on direct ord *r- from Moscow. The Herman in-

lormation i- that tla* internal situation in Ru-sia I- hecoiiiing worst*. 'l'he extremists are sweepung all the moderates out of mllueiiro and office, lively (ierutaii firm which has stayed l*>ng enough in the Russian business ha- been ruined by a system ol extortion. bribery and corrupt ion which denies tin* safety of personal proprny.''

I.OCCST PLACI H. CAPI-TOWN, dune If) A loeiisi invasion limit tla* Kalahari district I- assuming alarming dimension-. Some swarms are tweniy--1 iv.■ square miles in i-xteat. Motor trollies are being soul to Kalahari with supplies of poison. COST OF LI VINO. LONDON. June 11. Tlu* statistics presented liv the Board of Trade show that the cost of living during April and May was 2s Id and 2s ies|i,-< lively below tin* basic wage.