MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1924, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.]

MUSSOLINI’S ADMISSION. RO.AIE, Juno 21. The Senate President. Signor Titoni, expressed indignation at the murder of Alatteolti. and also repugnance at the motives of self interest surrounding tile crime. The Senate came to the decision that the full penalty .should fall on those responsible. Signor Alussoiiui reiterated liis extreme regret and horror at the crime. He declared that the Faseisti were among tlie first to condemn the crime. Justice, he declared, would lie meted out irrespective of persons. . The Government, added tlie Premier, would stand fast, but tin's did not mean that it might not he reconstructed in order to enable it tlie better to achieve national pacification. There was no question of his clinging to office, but lie would regard himself as one of the most cowardly of men if ho shirked hi* moral and political lesponsigilities at a. difficult moment. Ho refused to agree to a dissolution. lTe said Fascism had certainly received a blow, but it had already profited by it. and it would continue to profit therefrom in getting rid ol had element*. Fascism would refuse to how to any storm of reproach. The incidents at Bologna were indicative of a morn! and political tension which had reached its maximum, particularly ill North and Central Italy, where Fascism was not .strongly represented. Everything, lie said, must lie done to prevent tho situation from becoming auv worse. AUCKLAND HARBOUR LOAN. (Deceived this day at is a.m.) LONDON. June 21 Tho li'l has been opened of tlie Auckland Harbour Board's two blindled thousand live per cent debentures of hundred sterling al ninety-eight. The “l-inaocial Time*" recommends i: as a sound colonial investment. Tho “Financial News" ravs lho socuriiv is unimpeachable and the yield go si.' FIEIU'E .‘■'TODAI IN BELFAST. (Received this dav at S a.m.) LONDON, June 2r. A fierce and sudden sionn, resembling a tornado, swept Belfast, leaving a trail of wrecked houses. Many am injured. Every house ill .May Street was unroofed and the street was littered with dclnis. Hundreds of people were carried oil' their feel.

DICTATORS' POSITION SIIAKKN LONDON. June 21.

The “Daily Kxpress" Uarceloua correspondent says that public opinion is highly excited over the .Moroccan trouble. Th“ position of Dictator ol the Riverine has been shaken and ther • are rumours of General \\ eyler becoming Premier r ■ a section of the army is protesting strongly against the deei-ioii to evacuate the advanced posts in .Morocco. Colonel Frianco. emiiuiaiiiling tic Foreign l.ogiuu reiUses to I ace (lie positions and threatens to mari a on Meliiia nitli hi- troops. When (leiieral Saniciu was ordered to arrest Colonel Frianco nothing ten.- done. .Men it it Idle General Rerronguer is lining tried for the responsibility tor the d.deals of the ■'Spanish troops in Morocco in P.lgl. C harges against General Navarto were withdrawn.

The public is convinced that it the .Moroccan operati us continue the Spani-li Treasury will he exhausted. GOVKRN.MKNT'S SIXTH DKFKAT. (Received this day at Id a.lit.) LONDON, done 2.3. The novelty attaching to Government defeats in the Commons i.s somewhat wearing off. For the sixth time the Ministry receive! a set-hack when __ an amendment on the Traffic Rill was \ carried by 193 to IGS, the Conservatives and Liberals combining in a majority amendment pressed the Transport Alini.strv to adopt certain arrangements for submitting regulations to Parliament which the Minister objected would hamper hi- Department's work. This defeat is regarded as unimportant.