MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1924, Page 1

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. GABLE ASSOCIATION,

AIRCRAFT LIMIT.

LONDON, Juno 28

Thy latest development in continental aircraft traffic is an intimation by Germany that slto will not allow tho entrance of machines larger than the limits imposed on German aircraft. Britain is seriously considering the matter..

FRENCH CHARITY. PARIS, June 21

Baroness Deslandos recited part of a poem in a lion's cage at a Xeuilly fair, for the benefit of charity. When tile lions became restive, the tamer urged her to cut the recitation short. The baroness hastily backed out. Madame Eliremova sang while lying on a divan in a tiger’s cage, and darned in the cage before a fashionable audience.

CRISTS TN GREECE. LONDON. June 28

A message from Athens states that a British fleet, under Admiral Sir Osmond Do Beauvoir Brocit, on arriving there for tho purpose of signifying a resumption by Britain of normal relations, found there is a. crisis in the Greek Army and Navy. The officers of both services have been demonstrating against the Minister of Marine oil the grounds of favouritism in appointments. Many have been sent to prison. Consequently the reception of the British Elect lacked expected felicitations.

A Government crisis is developing, and the military dictatorship is threatened. EVEREST TRAGEDY. DELHI, June 27. The last despatch from Colonel Norton. leader of Tito Everest expedition, .states il.til two desperate endeavours were made to reach the summit, dining which a world altitude record was made, culminating in tjic 'tragedy. The first attempt was made by Norton and Somerville from a camp at a height of twenty-three thousand feet. This party, without oxygen, reached within six hundred feet of the summit. Somerville almost collapsed and Norton was able to go a few feet further. When they returned to camp they found iliat Mallory and Irvine wore determined to make an attempt with oxygen. They were last seen, going strong six hundred feet below the summit.

HOUSE OF LORDS VOTE. LONDON, June 27,

Tn the Bouse of Lords, Lord Long moved tv resolution regretting the Government's preference decision, as being one calculated to prejudice tho unity of the Empire.

Lord Arnold, in replying, said iliat Imperial tariff preference was, in effect. a protection accorded to subjects of the Empire outsido the United Kingdom at the expense of tho taxpayers of Britain. The Dominions ami the colonics, ho pointed out. already had great financial advantages, owing to their connection with the Mother Country. The opponents of preference rejoiced in Midi benefits. They were prepared to do great tilings to help them, but it would not be by way of tariff preference. 'I he motion was carried, as the Government members pressed rhe opposition to go to a division on tL* o'!*«■ tien.

ANTHItAX (.H'KSTIOX. CKXF.VA, .June 27. Tin' Anthrax Committee, by h mil - joi'ity ill 12, :nlopti*<l :i resolution that tin' ('onunit too ini' not prepared to recommend tin* Conference to take action, ami. fili'tlior, it docs not consider there is any prospect nl an international agreement. The committee expresses the hope that the present regulations operating in industrial connlries v. ill he examined, and, it necessary, modified in order that the greatest possihle protection shall he afforded to the transport of industrial workers. (Inly four delegates supported the liritish resolution ndvocat mg the eoinjmlsory disinfection of wool.

I.Alinn; AND Al'inc.vx CABINKT. ( A PKTOWN. .7tine. 20. While l.ahoiir is still sharply divided nil the ipieslion of entering the C'ahinet judging h.v the resolutions passed at various branches opinion seems to lie steering in favour ot inclnsioii. Significance is attached to the decision ot the I tenner Inalieli, in Mr Civssu ell's eonsl i lueiicy. ill support ot the aeceptanee seats. Ceiieral lleltzog is evidenllv meet ins' wit h considerable diflieultv in the allotment of seats, partly owing to the position of Ceiieral Kemp, ail ex-rebel leader. A seetioii of the Nationalists opposed his inclusion in tcabinet a-, likely to olfend the Bri-ti-h population. Others strongly press liis claims owing 1„ |,is influential position in Western I raiisvaal.