MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 June 1924, Page 1

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[by TELKGBAI'It —I'EU IT,ESS ASSOCIATION. AMERICANS AND WEMBLEY. LONDON, April -0. A dinner of tho Thirty Cluo of f.on(lol!. U'liic-li is District 11 of tin; Assnmated Advertising Clubs of the World, unoci' whose auspices the international Advertising Convention is to be liehi tit \\ I*lll liley in July, was hold at the J'rocath.wo Kesia uraut. Sliaf ts.bury-avenue, W., last night, air .John (J. .Jones, vice-president ol tiie Aleaialer Hamilton Institute of New VoiT;. referring u> the Wembley ExlnI iumu as a panorama of tin; British Kmpire. said:— It is a matter of womlerment that ton have not pioelaimeil to the I'nited •Mates that you liave uithin a leu miles ol your best hotel.-, an education In gengrnp!:y, m iur.torv. in travel, ami in peoples. It seems to niu it would be a go.at invest nienl if your people sneiil •.A: r. 101.. about i'bi;,o;:ib to tell Anieriran citizens what you have got over here. T iiousantls of citizens of tiie United •States did not It tin tv that six days from Ae.v 'i ork they could .see the best part ol t!ie world ny buying a steamship titliet. anil enjoying the hospitality oi i.omlo!l.

FUTFItK OF FIJI. LONDON. June If. Sir 11. Med-trom. the Fiji Legislator, lecturing cm Fiji’s present development and future possibilities, at the Colonial Institute, emphasised that sugar, copra and hummus were the present forms or p.rndmtiun, while dairying. cot Lou grim ing ami pineapples would lie the til Uses of future development. He stated that a trial shipment of Fijian creamery butter to London had been favourably reported upon. The lecturer claimed that Fiji had always acted .upon the principles recently formulated in the Colonial Oliiee's Kenya White Paper, namely, that tln- interest of the natives was paramount. .Mr Rodwell, of Fiji, in presiding, paid a tribute to Sir 11. Hedstrom as a member of the biggest mercantile linns in the Paeilie. SHIPPING DISASTFR. COPF.NIIAGKN. June IS. The colli.don between the two mail steamers was aeenmpauied by heartrending scenes. liotli steamers were* full of passengers, who were* mostly asleep. The Harold's passengers rushed on deck. They quietened when they found the .ship’s haws were only dented. The Man knit was doomed. The tiist hunt lowered capsized, throwing the passengers into the water. Others jumped overboard, hut most of the passengers were lowered successfully. The c aptain leapt from the bridge, and was saved just before the steamer sank. All happened in a matter of live.* minute's.

1. 101 ITN ING cAI XT I.ATO R A FRENCH TEST. LONDON. .7min 18. Tlio “.Morning Rost's” Paris curies|ion<lcnt says: There was a remarkalilc contest lietwccn Diamli, tlic wellknown lightning calculator, and a dozen of tlie most modern calculating' machines, held in the presence of a large audience of experts. In the firs I test, consisting of simple multiplication. ,-md division, and the squarin'; and cubing of four figures. fnaudi w:is appreciably tihead of the twelve machines. I>ut the typists using the machines were a few seconds ahead when tlietest was one for extractin'; the square, cuke, and other roots. The test included such problems as the determination of three consecutive numbers, whereof the total of the square amoiinito to I .0.11 ,803 This was heyond the steel calculators, hut the grey matter of Inaudi's hrain produced the answer in twenty seconds, uainclt, 7l?S>. id!), and 731.” Equally .speedy was rnaudi’s reply to «’ nro'dem as to what day in the week was the 7th. of April. !SB-_*, Inaudi replying Friday. MECCA VI LG I; IAI AC E. LONDON. June IS. The “Daily Telegraph's” Cairo eorre.s'uoiilcnt set's that a dispute hetw'een the Egyptian and lledjaz Govoriiomnts regarding the .Mecca pilgrimage has been settled. Kiiti; Hussein has given assurances cnocerning the treatment of military and medical escorts, which caused differences last year. Therefore it has been decided to despatch the Holy Carpet to Mecca next week. THE CORDON DENNETT RACE. LONDON. June 18 The fourteen balloons competing in the Cordon Dennett race have landed. The Frenchman, l.aporte. was trapped in an air vacuum above the Chateau Theirry and remained suspended at a height of lime thousand feet for eight hours, lie jettisoned everything moveable in an effort to reach the upper air current. Finally he let out the gas and descended live thousand feet when the balloon drifted across the channel and lauded at Khoreham. L.aporte is at present leading in the race, having covered two Tiumli-ed miles.