MISELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1924, Page 3

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS

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THE BUNGALOW MURDER. LONDON, July 1(5

There were unprecedented scenes at the commencement of .Mahon’s trial on the charge of murdering .Miss Kays at Crumbles. People Hocked to Lowes from all parts' of England. Great (|iieues assembled outside the Court in Liu* early morning for admission tickets. To secure these many offered .CIO.

Sir Curtis Dennett prosecuted and Mr Cassells, M.P., defended. The evidence was mainly a recapitulation of that in the Coroner’s Court. Mahon was calm and debonair, hut showed traces of a sleepless night. During the formal reading of letters |,y the Clerk of the Court he felL asleep, hut he followed the evidence closely.

JURYMAN PAINTS. LONDON. July 1(5.

At the Mahon trial, shortly alter the proceedings recommenced it juror fainted. After an adjournment tor an hour the juror again collapsed. uhereujMiu a new jury was empaiiitelled ami the trial commenced afresh.

GKI MIAN GOLD AND NOT I

RANK. [Reuters Tei.ko.iams.J (Received this day at ihlo a.m.) BERLIN, duly 10. The Government luts approved of the text of the Bill for establishing the new gold and note hank in accordance with thu Dawes report, incidentally providing lor the issue ol gold ten and twenty mark coins and silver coins of one, two, live, ten and fifty pfonnige. STACK AND DK VALERA RELEASED. (Received this day al 10.25 a.m.) LONDON. July 10. Re Valera and Austin {Stuck have been released.

NEW ZEALANDER HONORED. LONDON. July 1(5. The l/.'iigne of Empire .Education Conference delegates include Mr Kirn New Zealand, and a number of Australians. .Mr Trevelyan, Minister of Education, in presenting l to Sir Ernest Rutherford the Erstiikliu medal, said that Sir Ernest Rutherford was the greatest Living experimentalist. This honor gave the Mother Country particular .pleasure for it honoured otto of the Dominions.

ACTRESS DIES. ' LONDON. July 1(5. Obituary.—Winifred Emery. the actress. SrEVER’S FOURTH BANKRUPTCY. LONDON. July 10. Robert Siever attributed his fourth appearauco in the Bankruptcy Court to the action of the executors of his friend, C. W. Black, in obtaining judgment for loans amounting to £ILM.(H:O from which he asserted that Black, prior to his death, had released liabilities to the amount of Clt>!).000. 11 is assets are

Siever asserted that he in one year made fifty thousand and possibly one hundred thousand sterling on the turf. The newspaper “Winning Post.” before the wttr, produced ten thousand yearly, hut now it owed him eighteen thousand. ADV ER T IKING C<) N V ENT l() N LONDON, July 1(5. Mr Jones of Melbourne submitted a paper to the Advertising C (invention on Australia and New Zealand as markets for export trade, lie points out that Britain should learn from other nations the art of meeting the rei|Uirements of overseas buyers, notably for motor-ears in which the American type was better adapted to Australian and New Zealand conditions and he etn» phusised the wisdom of direct commercial representation and also gave useful hints how to gain the best results of advertising in the two Dominions. ,|.VP POLITICAL LEADER DEAD. TOKYO, July 10. Obituary-Viscount Kuroila. the political lender of the House of Peers. MeLAREN’K PLIGHT. TOKYO, July K 5. McLaren hits left Tnshimoyi for Pnrnmasho. THE CHINESE FLOOD. (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) PEKING. July I<s. Telegrams from Kalgan state that the whole city south of the river is severely damaged. Ihe loss ot tl ( - however, is not great. Foreigners are sale. The damage is estimated at a million dollars. CHINAMEN ON STRIKE. PEK.INP. July l*L Advices from Hong Kong state that all Chinese employed m houses am odices in Shan.cen walked nut as a protest am.inst the Shameeo Municipal regulations, which re.p.irc Ch.ncsc to have a permit to enter Slmtnoen.

EDUCATION CONFERENUU LONDON. July H>. \t tlie Education Conference it "as t-ited the London County Council " a •oilsidering a proposal that a mo vear’s interchange be cousicfi i • ..'or absence on full pay. thereby not iuterforving with the .'onlnmitv nl service for superannuation. Tin I". |u)s; ,t is being submitted to the Domin-

,O, ' S - BOV SCOUTS TAIN BON- July K>. [„ connection with the B-'pcrml Jamboree of hoy -scouts at AU'inhk in the first week m August, the Km_ '"ill receive all tire smuts Iron. D 0,,,,, - ions and Colonies at Buckingham I lace on July 20th. A great thanks„iving service for hoy scouts "dl held at Westminster Ahhov that evening-