MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1924, Page 1

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

iUBTRALIAN AND N.Z. O.’.BLE ASSOCIATION. AN EVICTION RESISTED. PARIS, August 22. Exciting scenes were witnessed in the fashionable l’lace do la Madelaine, when the police sought to evict Isaac Zaho, a naturalised Austrian, from a sumptuous Hat for non-payment of rent. Zaho at first confronted the bailiff and his men with a revolver, causing their precipitate (light. After that, the police applied asphyxiating gas through the keyhole. Zaho. however, opened the windows, causing the gas to blowhack on to the beseigers, several of whom were affected thereby. Eventually a locksmith forced in the door, and Zaho was overthrown. arrested, and charged with violence. BUILDING LOCK-OUT. LONDON, August 22. The sloppage of the building trade operations, which lias lasted since the beginning of July, was settled this afternoon, when the men aeccopted the employers' terms, the set!lenient providing for a halfpenny per hour advance in the wages of all the craftsmen and labourers. The advance is to be stabilised uniil February, 192(5. The summer working hours, beginning in 1925, are to be ■1(1-5 weekly. The question of lost time is to he referred to a joint committee.

DENMARK'S NAVAL LEAD. COPENHAGEN, August 22.

Plans .submitted. I.y the Minister uf Defemo for the abolition of the Danish Navy have been approved hv the Government, and a hill for that purpose will be presented to Parliament. It is propsetl to convert eight small vessels into a police guard and fishing inspect inn ships. Twelve hydro-planes will lie retained for civil duties.

The whole naval personnel will he disbanded, except TIT men required to man the converted vessels. I'Ue Danish Ministry is .Socialistic, occupying a minority position in Parliament (similar to the .MacDonald Alinistrv in Britain).

GREEK FLEET LAID l'P. ATHENS, August 2:5. Owing to the officers’ political agitations and threatened mutiny, the Cad inet have ordered the laying up of the Greek Fleet. The crews have been paid oil' and given extended leave. SOVIET SECRET SERVICE. LONDON, August 22. Despite the conclusion of the treaty with Russia, the British Government has found it necessary to protest to the Soviet against (he indignities suffered h.v Mr Hodgson, the British (barge d’Alfaires in .Moscow. His office is daily watched by spies and seei'cl service men, who intercept visitors, especially Russians mid try to ascertain the reasons for the visits, and the nature of the conversation. M. Kahovsky lias promised to investigate. A CHAMPION WALKER. LONDON, August 21. In a six days contest of ten hours daily at Crystal Palace, C. \V. Hart, the ex-champion walker, aged (!0 years covered .'IKi miles ESI) yards, heating a horse ridden by Arthur Nightingale ex-cross country jockey and tliric> winner c| the Grand National, by seven miles IIIA2 yards. The horse was withdrawn two hours hehire th e finish, leaving the man the winner.

PRINCE OF WALES. BOLTS TO AMERICA. 'Received this day at, S a.m.) LONDON. August 21. The Prince of Wales unexpectedly hoarded the B-erengaria dining the early hours of Saturday ii'.criiing, after spending a part of the night at the residence of Lord Moinithalton at Nullwell. near Pytlc. ■ • It’s alright, I am going to Anicriea with you," said the Prince climbing the rope ladder Irom a motor launch. The crowds at Southhampton Were disappointed. The ••Sunday Express" correspondent, writing from the Berengaria at sea on Satuiday night, says the Prince walked the deck looking nervous and unhappy, hut when he saw that the other passengers did not observe him, he recovered his composure and danced ill the evening. HABITUAL CRIMINALS. LONDON. Aug.. 22. Convicts have petitioned against sentences. as a consequence of the decision of thirteen Judges (cabled May 2tih.). who. by a majority, allowed an appeal and quashed the conviction of Charles Leslie Norman, who was. sentenced to five years’ penal servitude for burglary and tittering ji faKe document. to he followed bv live years’ preventive detention as an habitual criminal.

Tin* .lulls'*''' disagreed mi 11::• *|tiexIjtm ol wbel.'.ier nil linliituul criiiiin:il must, always afterwards bo regarded ns one in In"'. Kir tv-six oenvicts, ill eniiseipicneo petitioned against the sentence pas-uni mi tlhuii as linliitual < riminals. Tin- I lonic Secretary Ims rolcasoil seven ol' tilt'll!. 'ml rejected the claims oi the others. The news ol' the judgment spread through the prisons throughout tin* country in a most remarkahle way. INCH MASK. OK CIMME. NEW YOU K, A n't. ‘-’-J. The A mi*ricjtn Institute el Airoutsuits, imu posed of the foremost experts in the profession, have issued a report entitled ‘‘Clime leiidency in hnsincss." The report estimates the total annual loss from financial crimes at three thousand million dollars, ol which embezzlement ami forgeries oonmri-c two thousand millions; credit frauds four hundred millions: and -.tneh frauds cue thousand million-'. The re; on notes there is an increase in lui'iiiess crime, citing the fuiyinents hv insurance companies as the result of lidelilv 10-sos. Such fidelity premiums in 10’JI tootled lO.OOS.Ot)-.) dollars. neon which the los-es amounted to 2.455.0P0 dollars or 2*> per cent.: whereas IiIJM shows the premiums wire •_>!).D7l dollars, with hisses of P. 573.P,:)i> dollars or 34 per rent. The report asserts that tlie number of fl’ei|ii.'s used annually in the l nited Stat.-s exceed' six thousand million'. and estimates that ho per cent, ol the nation 1 ' business is transacted by means of negotiable paper. thus givir.ir priH-tienlly unlimited opportunity for fortrery. An alii ‘d ( rimes report suggests a variety of office and 1 .jok-keeping expedients to prevent crime. It recommends a miniit? sub-division of clerical work, in eider to minimise the opportunities for collusion. CHESS. UNDOS’. Aim. *J3. 11. E. Atkins, of Huddersfield, won the British chess championship at Southport for the eighth time. Yates was second, and Sir George Thomas third. Bubenstein of Poland, won the Alajor Open Championship, being undefeated in 11 games. ' .