MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1924, Page 1

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

iCSTRt MAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AIRMEN AHIt 1 YE. PEKING, June Hi Two American airmen have arrived at Tourane. Smith- was forced to descend. owing to engine trouble. EVEREST EXPEDITION. DELHI. June J 1 It is reported that the Everest orpedition is returning to Darjeeling. The extent of their success is n-.t known. POLICEMAN TIED TO HAILS. HIT ESCAPES DEATH. PAIMS. Jtme HI. A Mayence message slates that Police Inspector Miinchy. when walking on the railway near Dortmund, was attacked and overpowered by live men. lie was then tied to the track. The assaulters declared that they wished to finish hint for his activity against the Wcstfaleiireubund Nationalist organisation. They placed the victim’s watch near his head and hrilitally lold him that lie could check the time of the arrival of the train which would crush hi ill.

.Miinchy, bv a tremendous struggle, managed to drag himself into the middle of the line so the. express passed over him .without injuring him. German workmen at daybreak found him unconscious, AMERICAN'S TIRADE AGAINST OXFORD. LONDON. June HI. At a iccciii. meeting ot the Rhodes Scholars Trustees, .Mr Rudyard Kipling delivered a speeh dealing with the aims of the founders for drawing men from diHorent countries into touch with cat'll other. A considerable discussion has now arisen over tlm speech delivered at Oxlord by a gi'eeil American Rhodes scholar. To reply in Mr Kipling in which he disclosed that American scholars are not responsible to the Rhodes ideals, the 'American scholar declared: Oxford lias not been an Elysian. It has only brought death to our dreams of romance ami .hopes. ||S grey unbeautiful buildings are merely old fashioned and olleii prisons to Ibe soul and body. If Rhodes, ill founding i lie scholarships, meant us lo become apostles of a creed for which All Kipling has laboured so long, we must deny bis hope'. Oxford, England and Europe only make American Rhodes scholars love America more and more daily. \Ve are sick of the handshaking across the seas. A\ e will go home without regret and eagerly to the mil ion we know and understand, Imping tlm home oi us will amount to something if Oxford’s life and idleness lias not impaired our energies.’’

ITALIAN TRAGEDY. HOME. June 10. The body of .t Socialist Deputy. Signor Alatolli. who has been missing for several day., and w ho, was believed to have been kidnapped by Easeisti. has been found in a wood with his skull fractured. R I -SSI A AND ROFAIANIA. LONDON, June II Air 11. <L Orcenwcll, the special correspondent for the '’Daily Express’’ en the Russo-Roumanian frontier, -ays "Russia is waging silent war against Ruiimaiiia, by midnight marches of troops, and other forms ot pressure, and by intimidatory prnpagam la." The correspondent expresses the opinion that ibis may continue indefinitely, or may suddenly set the Halkaiis allame. “Rouiiiuiiin’s view,’’ lie says, **is that Russia is Mulling, and is not rendv for an offensive this year."

IH'SSIAX SKXTEXCKS. I.OXDON, dune I I 'I he "Daily HxperssV’ Moscow correspondent states: “Five lligh Court ollicials at Leningrad, who were convicted of bribery, and were .sentenced to death, have been executed. The All l!.|s-ia Central Executive has reprieved twelve others similarly condemned, and has reduced their sentences in ton year»' imprisonment. BY FI. KMT MFB DF.lt. tiif. .k bvs vkiidict. I.OXDOX, dune Id. Summing up at the liylleel murder inquest, the coroner commented on the sordid conditions at the Blue Anchor Hotel at the time of the tragedy. Yaqtiicr. the accused, seemed passionately and lustfully fond of Mrs .Jones. There was no ground for the suggestion that Julies committed suicide. The jury, sifter a retirement of one hundred and thirty minutes, returned a verdict that Jones died from strychnine poisoning, administered by some person or persons with intent to cause death.

Answering the Coroner, the foreman said:—"We cannot arrive at anything more definite than that. We are of the opinion that the murder was committed by someone living in the hotel at that time.” EGG KXI’OBTS. LOXDOX, June 10. Air .1. 15. Merrett. the New Zealand Kgg Producers' representative is a passenger by the forint hie. lie says lie is satisfied that F.ngland niters a big market for Xew Zealand eggs. AYF. 11X11 IvR JEWELS. LQXDOX. June It. A reward of £5001) has l«con offered in connection with the AYeniher jewel roldiery (cabled yesterday - ). The jewouery (worth £t?o0.000 at least) .vas insured against fire, hut not against burglary. Detectives have found many finger prints BOY KAIICBAXTS. LONDON, June 13. General Bussell, farewelling twentyfive public, schoolboys, on board the Liner Corinihic. at Southampton, who intend settling in Now Zealand, said: "AA'e are, looking to you to carry on the work of farming and of Empire. Do not repeat in the drawing room what you hear on the farm ! Do not gossip. Keep your mouths shut, and your eyes open. Esc your brains ns well as your muscles.” LONDON, .Tune 13. The liners Corinthie and Suffolk have 770 migrants for New Zealand aboard, including oightv-nine farm workers, eiglitv-four domestics, and COS Olliers. AT'STHTAN SETCTDES. VIENNA, June 15. A record number of 315 suicides and attempted suicides are reported in Vienna for Slay and sixty-one so far

LONDON RAILWAY STRIKE. LONDON, June 13 While il)f unofficial strike of railway shopmen has collapsed, the strike i' not yet ended so far as concerns the shopmen of four draft unions, namely the Electrical Trades Union, Vehicle Rudders’ Union, the Blacksmiths LTniuii, and the Amalgamated Engineers Union, who will decide to-night whether they will resume work or continue mi strike. -Meantime the underground service is officially stated to he fifty per cent normal, and it is expected to be one hundred per cent by to-morrow. A I*OLIKE RAID. [R ECTKHS Telegrams.] (Received this day at 11.25 a.i11.) LONDON. June 15 At Glasgow, the police suspecting a hall at the east end of the city was frequented by alleged sympathisers of Irish Republican ideas, carried out a raid during the early hours ol the morning whilst a dance was progressing. and found a quantity ot ammunition, and explosives. They arrested live men. who were subsequently charged willt being in possession Hinn-of. They were remanded. NEW RADIO EXPERIMENT. BUENOS AYRES, June 14 (Received this day at f.-io a.m.) The nans-radio international officials announce that radio beam ray communieation between I’aldhu Station, Cornwall England, and Hm-nos Ayres was radiotelcgrapliie, not telephonic as reported from London. The message was received alter a successful test winch William Marconi conducted for two days with the local station on a a wave length of iiinely-folli* metres. Officials assert the success over such" it long distance, means that- high power stations are no longer necessary for radio (•oinniiiiiicatioii. They expect soon that all stations of Iho four big allied international companies will Lo equipped with radio roileciors, essential to the beam lay system so that each may communicate with any of the others directly and exclusively. The receiving apparatus here" is of special construction, having three lamps and a small cylindrical antenna. The distance from l’oldhu io Buenos Ayres is (1333 miles.

THE X.S.W. LOAN. SYDNEY. June 10. The State Treasurer, Mr Cocks, attributes tile fact that eighty live per cent, of tlie New South Wales loan was left with the under-writers was duo to ilie political changes in Europe. Ho says it does not carry the slightest reflection mi the stability of the State, lie also slates that by comparison with the recent Queensland loan. New Smith Wales is paying between sixty and seventy thousand per annum less in interest.