MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1924, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[Recteiis Telegrams.]

RUHR EXILES TO RETURN. BERLIN, Juno 27

Following Al. Harriot's declaration in the Chamber in regard to the return of expelled Germans, permission has already been given to thirty thousand persons to return to the French occupied territory. Tho return of the majority of those expelled will he rendered possible shortly, and tho majority of those imprisoned in the Ruhr conflict will he set free.

LEGITIAIACY LAW. LONDON, June 28. The House of Commons, by 117 votes to 13 carried the third reading of tho Legitimacy Bill, mentioned in cables on ALarch 7. Three women Commoners, Lady Atholl, Lady Astor, and Aliss Pliillipson wanted to exclude from legitimacy, children whose parents, or one of them, arc married to someone else at the time of birth, but Alis's Susan Lnwranee opposed this, and such a restriction was rejected by 13*1 to Go. ■*•<*

BEER BANKRUPT. LONDON, June 27. I.'i d Loughborough has filed a pillion in bankruptcy. His liabilities set down at CIS, 120 sterling, while his assets are nil. Lord Loughborough gave ovideitCo that his bankruptcy was due to extravagance in 191'fi which lie was unable to justify. 11 is lather then paid his debts of i’ll,ollo, and in 1921 lie paid off a further £9OOO. His present income was Cl per day. liis wife possessed a separate income of £2OOO, and she kept up the household. JAPANESE EXCLUSION. TOKIO, June 27. It is stated that the Foreign Office of Japan has dropped the idea of appealing to the League of Nations on Hie question of the U.S.A. Exclusion Law. not because it has not a good case, but because the League apparently is impotent. The Japanese Premier states the Government’s hands are tied because of the American elections, which preclude the chance of any satisfactory representations to America.

OLYMPIC GAMES

PARIS, June 28

At the Olympic Games, the teams’ riHe shooting contest resulted in a win fur the Americans, who scored GiG points. Haiti was second with GIG points and France third with OIL Eighteen nations competed in the contest. HISTORICAL ARTICLES SOLD. (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, June 29. The Elag of Prince Charles I'd ward which was captured at tlic Rattle of Culioden in 1710 was sold at Sotliehys for C9t)t). The piece of blue silk ribbon worn by Charles l on the scaffold brought £l2O. Four of the Pretender’s glasses ranged from £290 to £l5O.

ROFMANI AN OIL FIELDS. DECREE TO CONFISCATE (Received this day at 9.25 a.lii.) LONDON, June 29. The "Daily Express” Paris correspondent says that the Roumanian Government intends to confiscate oil properties worth forty millions sterling in order to compel the foreign owners to yield sixty per cent of their holdings In Roumanian capitalists. Britain, Era nee and Anieica protested, hut AT. Bratcano is determined to force the decree through Parliament.