MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1924, Page 3

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

IUBTUALIAN AND N.Z. CAULK ABBOCIATION, PACIFIC CABLE Ol! WIRELESS. (Received this day at 11.20 n.m.) LONDON. July 20. The Pacific Cable Board considered the ex|>erts report on wireless in the Pacific and duplication of cables on the Fiji-Vancouver sections. It is understood that experiments have proved the Pacific is exceptionally favourable fur wireless. As a new form of cable i> at present in operation near the Azores, and another section is being constructed, the Board decided to give these a lull trial before deciding between duplication and wireless.

A FANTASTIC STORY. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received ibis day at 12.30 p.m.) LONDON. July 30. The “ Daily Mail ” slates the death of Mallory and Irvine was foretold by the AbbolL oi Rollgbllk belore the High Lama, lie i- credited with the possession ol second Mghl. He warned the porlers that a further assault on Mount Everest would be auemled by disaster, because though the spirit of the mouiP.niu had been mereiiu! up to that linie. it would wreak il> veiigeaiicc on future disturbers ol his eternal pence. It- is significant that after this warning the purlers were disinclined to make a long ascent, suggesting their morale was allceted.

A MILL COLLAPSES

[Reuters Telegrams. i

(Received this dav at 12.30 p.m.) DELHI. J til v 20

It is reported from Ahinedabad that apparently as a consequence ol rains, portions of a ginning mill collapsed, and twenty-six persons were sent to the hospital. It is lieilieved sixty are stiil beneath the debris. DOMIN' lON ('ONKER ENOF,. (Received this day at 12.30 p.m.) LONDON. July 20. fii tlie Commons. Mr 'llioiii.tr announced lie had convened a Dominions Conference to be held in October to explore the question of Dominions representation in ion t lection with the foreign policy and Imperial affairs.

TERRIBLE.SFFFF.RI.NO IN INDIA

(“Sydney Sun” Cables)

(Received this day at 11.2 b a.in.) DKDML July

Cholera lias broken out in the last flooded area in Southern India. ’the waters are still rising and heartrending reports are filtering in from isolated districts. The floods have cut oil the Bangalore light supply. Otlieials in Mysore State and British India an* taking active measures to succour the many thousands of homeless who are on the brink of starvation.

KM IMRE’S BONNIEST BABY. LONDON. July 2!)

Of Mxty thousand entries from the Empire tit the National Babv A\ eck competition. Mary Patricia Wilson, ag-'d two year- eight months, ol Melbourne. was adjudged the Empire s boniiiest- baity. K.MIMRE CO-OPERATION. (Received this day at 11.23 a.m.) LONDON. July 2!). The coiti'ereiiee of agricultural cooperation in the Empire at Wentbl.v passed ft resnlutinn. tut tlie motion ol Sir James Allen, advocating the facilitation on more direct methods ol bargaining between co-operative producer:and consumers, also agricultural cooperatives it) tin endeavour to establish inter-trade relations between the consumers and the wholesale soeietie-. Tito Canadian Chamber of Coinmere passed a resolution that the time had arrived to take vigorous steps to consolidate the trade interests ol the Em pi re for which a eoptcrcnoe ol all ,issoeiatiulis of lnuPiUacturei s in the Empire should he arranged.

QUESTION OF PRECEDENCE. (Heceivcd this day at 12.30 p.m.) LONDON. July 20. Air Thomas ammiimcl in the Commons that the lligli Commissioner of tlie Dominions and India would take precedence iurmcdiatcly after tin* Blitish and Dominion Cahinet Alinisters on ceremonial occasions, hut when no British or Dominion Cahinet Ministers were present the High Commissioners would take precedence immediately after that accorded to the Secretaries of State hv the table of precedence.