MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[“The Times” Service.] A I SIR ALI A N KAN'S CRITICISED. (Rever ed this day at 1D.21 a.m.) LONDON. August 17. Parkin, in an article in the Dispatch" wus: “Perhaps the me.xt difli--I'iilt problem of English cricketers in Australia is the < mails. They are a rough and ready loi. su] erlicially considered like Yorkshire fans who persistently annoy other Counties bytrying to heat, them with their months: htit in reality the Australian crowds ale as sporting as any cricketers might dream about. Though Sydney and Melbourne crowds will show a, fioir*' and fight p.irti-ansliip over the mutches against England, they have a true love of the game for the game’s sake. If our players are not unduly perturbed h.v the outward show of antagonism. tiie.v will even come to feel that- Australian spectators know cricket better than we do in England.”

ARMOURED TRAIN'S. NEW YORK. August 17. 11l an ell'oi-t to prevent railway mail Department has let a font raft for the building of’ three thousand specially designed ears, armoured and heavily , (•quipped with protective devices in a smli way as to defeat the attacks hy armed desperadoes. HOUSE OK RF.I’S RAIDED. (Received this day at 11.21 a.m.) Manila. August 17. One hundred women relatives ot lepers detained at Culioii colony, invaded a sitting of the Ihuise ol Representatives ami compelled the suspension ol the session until the Speaker promised his good olliees in obtaining legislation dealing "itb leper-. NO TRAC E OK .MISSIONARY. .MANILA, August 17. The sailing boat Dauntless, from Honolulu, picked up on the Alilidai Coast no trace of Ira Sparks, an American religious enthusiast who le.ently continued hi- voyage single handed from here to Singapore, cn route fot Palestine. He is believed to have been drowned. NATURALISATION OK ENEMY SUBJECTS. I (Received this day at 9.21 a.m.) CAPETOWN. August 17. In introducing a Bill in Die Assembly providing for the naturalisation ot subjects of late enemy powers in the South West Protectorate on the same lines as those proposed by the late Cover,mieut. the Premier said that bef,ne giving territory representation in the Union Parliament, they must have some form of self-government which, however, must have the full consent ot the people. After cons,tit mg the people he hoped, next session, to introduce a Bill providing for self-gov-I eminent. HINDU-MOSI.F.M DISTURBANCE. DELHI. August 17. Disturbances between Hindus and Moslems occurred at Culbargn, "here the Hindus attacked Mahommedan f mosques. Rioting and shooting b'l- - loved in which the superintendent ot police wa- killed and a number <>t casualties eau-e.l among the rioters. Large military reinforcements were sent and dispersed the crowd, lmt tlie position i> sorioiis. A TURKISH FANATICISM. CONSTANTINOPLE. Aug. 17. i. Superstitious Turks and Creeks firIn" at tlie moon during the eelipsi hilled several People. I MEXICAN HORRORS. MEXICO CITY. Aug. 17. Hundreds of bandits placed obstrue 'g I tions on the track of the Vera Cru C- train near San Salvador. Twenty-fiv c- passengers were killed by ritle fils am rr their bodies rnblied. The train " ;l r- completely looted and partially burnt