BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.] j DIED IN WOK K 1 IOI'SE. LONDON, Aug. 9. Robert Lung, agc-il 77. an -x-siiney cricketer died in the Knliehl Workhouse. Ilis wife is also an inmate-. IIIiITTSH WORLD FLIGHT. ANOTHER ATTEMPT ERG ED. 'Received this day at 8 a.in.) LONDON, Aug. 0. .Major lilakc- is appealing for C'JT.tinO for another Ifritish attempt at a world flight early in 1025. /ANN! FORCED TO LAND. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) DELHI, Aug. 8. /mini made a Inreed landing at the village of l-i-i. P.'S miles from Calcutta. N.Z. GOVERNOR-GENERAL. admiral de roiseck predicted LONDON. Aug. 8. The “Daily .Mail” says it is expected that Admiral De Kobeck "ill succeed laud Jelticoc as New Zealand Gover-nor-General in November. It is believed tbo appointment was made in response to New Zealand s wishes. Admiral De Robc-ck was to-day interviewed by -Mr L 11. Thomas ('Colonial Secretary).

YAOUi Ell’S REPRIEVE. LONDON. Aug. 7

The petition for Yaqiiicr s reprieve hears an.CIM) singatnres, including tim e of thirty Members of tlm House ol Commons.

Mr Sbortt (cx-llomc .Mini-tort «riling to the “Daily Express." stall's that the experience of Id- lour >cais of tile Home Secretaryship coin meed him that the lino I decision should not rest with one man. The final arbiter should be a Commission, consisting "I the Home Seeretarv, the Lord Cluel Justice, and the .lodges at the trial. H would be a matter for consideration whether tile death |K-nalty should he carried out unless the Comniis-ioii s decision was unanimous. COMMONS AD.IOKRNS. LONDON., Aug. S. Parliament lias adjourned until 30th September. CURES KOK SLEEPY SICKNESS. TORONTO, Aug. 8. In drug 200 Germany lias the key to East Africa, hut so' lias France in drug :!(>!>, which has been developed at the Pasteur Institute, declared 11. TT. Dale, head of Biochemistry and Pharmacology Research t ouueil, London. To scientists 1100 was equally efficacious as a cure for sleepy sickness which wreaks havoc in tropical countries. In the arsenical drug, tryparsamnlc. the Rock feller Institute revealed another means to make America habitable > or whites. Drug 205 had cured numerous cases of African sleeping sickness in man even when the di-ease was well advanced.