BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1924, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

fJ! KCTI’KS TfLKURAMH.] A V ALLA UI.E FIND. THE HISTORY OF ROME. LONDON. Aug. 21. Dr .Mario |)i Martinfiise conlirmthe report from Naples that he lie come into po-sessioii of Livy's t-.im-plete history of Rome, of which, up t 1 the present, only lid links out of II: are extant, except in epitomized lorn:, lie states that when t! e ■ mirk is reads for access to scholars be will -ay when he found the ininortaiit portions vhi”! have h”eu mi-sing for fourteen loin dred years. A LAIIOFI!ITE'S DUPLICITY. LONDON. Aug. 21. /.I low a leading Labourite was financially einbarrns.-ed. deserted his wib ami child, pretended to eemmit suicide and then attempted to abscond with i married woman to Australia, was related during the bankruptcy exnminatioi of William .lakeman. an ex-Labour member of the Dudley ('oiiticil. .lakeiiiau admitted borrowing one thniisiud pounds which he 10-t in building houses. When eonvimed of his losses. I:e placed a" quantity of clothing nr. the river hank at Worcester and then booked passages to Australia lor himself and the. woman as mail and wife, lull was arrested on the eve o! tin stea tiler’s denart lire.

N.Z. EX 111 BIT'S I FMi TO TRADE LONDON. Aug. 21

It is e-tiuiated that one-third (| f tie ‘Wembley Exhibition's ten million visitors entered the N -w Zealand Pavilion nil average of fifty thousand daily. Thousands of oases of apldes. twenty three thousand s-unoles of honey, line twentv-live thousand packets ot butter haxe been sol '. reaching homes all over Britain. A grocer in a provincial tour told the New Zealand authorities, thin h” doubled Ins sales ot butter owing t the publicity at Wenihlev. There haw been numerous migration inquiries, including many middle class nrofes-ion-al-‘. desiring to change their oeiupnt intis, with capital ranging from twe hundred to several tlunt-ands. Many European inquiries for llax. pelts, inhibit '.-kins. il.l. n- rug- liiiilwrs. meat, butter and uidk product- wen received. WORLD FLIERS. HALIFAX. Aug. 21. The Ctiileil Slates tliers have reached Greenland according to advices received here. NEW YORK. Aug. 21 The Failed States world tliers and Lieut. Loeatelli .Italy) hopped oil' from Reykjavik, in Iceland, this morning, on the K2l mile journey to Frederieksdal, in Greenland. All the airplanes took off easily. A DEADLY WAR PLANE. LONDON, Aug. 21. Trials have suceosslully been carried out with the torpedo plane "eitliarno," reputed to be the deadliest lighting plane in the world. It carrio a pilot, two observers, a llioilsandpotttitl torpedo, and a large quantity of bombs. It has a speed ol one hundred and thirty miles an hour. It i* in tended tor coast defence. MATTEOTTTS FUNERAL. ROME. Aug. 21. The body 111 Matteolti was interred in the I'ratta I’olosim* cemetery. Socialist deputies struck a discordant note. After following the eullin te Eriit La. they refused to participate in the service, owing to the presence ol :t (JoV4*riinu*!ii ivpn’M’iitjitivt». JM’SSIAX TItKATY. LONDON. Aug. 22 The Conneil of the London Chamber of Commerce hits pa>-ed a resolution disapproving of the prniio-od Angloiiussinii Troat.v. / WINTER IN WESTERN EI'ROI’E. LONDON. Aug. 22. Snow fell at C hereboiirg and Havre. Frame. Heavy sea- prevail m Hie ehiinuel. It is cold in Britain.