MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1924, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.] CHINESE THOROUGHLY AWED PEKING. June 23. In connection with tho death ol the American, Air Hawley, :it Waushieti. the Guild authorities promise to redouble their colitis to prevent the molestation of foreigners. Air Hawley lived for lit teen years in China representing a British firm engaged in river transport, ol wood and oil by >toil,liters. Tbe junkmen, however. resented the intrusion of machinery into the leisurely life of the river and heat Hawley to death on the beach.

The commander of the warship •Cockshafter trained her guns on the city and compelled the military authorities to walk humbly in Mr Hawley’s funeral cortege, alter which the populace wdt nesseil the -hooting ol the jiinkmcii.

The Fluted States Consul declares the inhabitants and military authorities at Waushicn appear thoroughly awed by the example of summary Western Justice. SHARKS. LONDON. June 23. Wailii fills (id to fils 3d. F.XCIi'ANGKS. Rrussels. 921. Paris. 8002. Stuck’iolm. 2030. Chri'thinia. 3213. Copenhagen. 2o(!3. Rerlin. IOJ billions. Rome, IDOL Calcutta. 17. Yokohama, 22J. I long Kong, 2S;d. Montreal. J3O.L New York. -13.3. SAVAGE MFRDKRS. f PARIS, June 23. ' Frauch'dli, aged .*(), an Italian resident of Paris, iinding his young wife had left him for a youth!ill admirer named Pierre, sought the latter at an hotel, .-hot him. and mutilated his Imrly with a knife. The terrified wife barricaded her.-elf ill a neighbouring room. Franclietti. however, smashed in tb" door, and shot her. and slashed her throat, despite t'i" presence of their hoy, aged 2) years. The police round him trying to clean bloodstains from his soil’s face and hair.

AMI’NDSKN\X TROFI)I.KS. ROME. June 23. Owing to a balance of L'l I.ODO outstendiiig in connect ion w ith the aeroplanes specially built for Amundson's A. Polar flight, not having been handed to llie Italian <ioveniment. the latter ha- intimated that if the money is not paid in a foi l night. the Government would lake over the machine-, hut would conduct the flight, and would invite Amumben to accompany it, as sectiiid in command.

SWIMMING. PARIS. June 21. The New Zealand -wiimner. Miss Sliand. did a hundred metre exhibition swim in do second-. (i‘i OF CRKW SAFF. DELHI. -I iino 23. The Clan Line agents at Calcutta port the Clan MacMillan was wreckea at Preuari- Island. Sixty of the crew out of (i t lal of seventy-seven were picked up hv the Riinna Oil Company’s tanker Mnihln. south of the mouth ol the Irrawaddy River, and are proceeding to Rangoon. ALL HANDS RKPORTKI) SAFE. DKLHI. June 23. It is now reported that tlu* entire crew of the Clan McMillan have been picked up. AIRMEN SAVED. LONDON. June 24. A wireless telephone message to an aeroplane in midair saved the lives of three members of the Air Force who wtc unaware that their landing carriage was -winging loose under the fusL lage. An officer at Weymouth Aerodrome noticed the defect while the machine was passing overhead, and wirelessed an order to come down in. the sea promptly. lie arranged with naval motor Innas to clear an area on the crowded waterfront and safely picked ii]) the airmen and salvaged the aeroplane, which turned n somersault whetj it touched D'o ivntw.