MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1924, Page 2

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CM3LE ASSOCIATION. MKMHI.FY SHOML LONDON, August 24. The "Mail” says the production of the Kmpire Pageant lias cost nearly one hundred thousand [iountls. and though the attendance was a million, there has been a loss of at least sixty thousand | minds.. Rain kept thousands away about every night for six weeks, and entirely prevented seven performances. TOY TRADE. LONDON, August- 24. German toy makers, intending to w-e a share of the Dawes Joan to <:i|te ■ world maikets. have combined with a. view to the establishment of ten Males Bureaux in the chief cities of Jirit-tili and the Kmpire. The combine is seeking the co-operation of the toy makers in Austria and Czeeho-Slovakia, in the hope of thus preventing F.iiropean Joyß and leather goods becoming obtainable except- through the Bureaux.

LIK FLY SOVI FT FNYOY. LONDON. Aug. 2-5. Tlie “Morning Post's” Russian correspondent reveals that the Soviet- is planning to appoint as Russian Envoy to London M. Yoikolf. who. as President- of the Fkaterinhurg Soviet, in duly 1!) 1!). signed the death warrant ordering the deaths of the ex-Tsar ami the whole Imperial family, and witnessed the carrying out of the sentence. Th*' correspondent- [mints out that the Soviet tried to appoint M. Yoikoff as head of a trade delegation to Canada in 1022 hut the then Conservative British Government protested.

DROI'GHT IN Rl-SSr.V. LONDON, Aug. 24. Though the Soviet sources of information deny the existence of any famine. and claim that Russia can export iino million tons of grain, a Daily Telegraph representative who has just- s '“' returned from Rus-ia declares that there i- a grain shortage amounting to four million tons. He states that heat has destroyed the pastures, and that the cattle are dying in large numbers.

COMMERCIAL AVIATION. LONDON. August 24. The " Mail " calls attention to tho fact that to-day is the fifth anniversary of commerical flying from London to the Continent. It says that British machines have Down four million miles attaining ninety-one per cent reliability in summer and eight-eight per cent throughout the year including the winter logs. They have carried nearly oil,00(1 passengers, and only six have ~j been billed.

IVOISY’S RFTI'RN. PARIS, August 24. Scenes of wild enthusiasism marked the arrival of Aviator O’Oisy and his mechanic. Bozin. They only stayed a

few hours eii route to their homes in the country. They will receive a civic welcome in OeT’iher.

D'Oisy and Bozin again leave Franco on October 27511 1 til the head of a motor caterpillar expedition across YBo Libyan Desert to Tunis and Lake Chad and back. They are also planning later a long llight over Africa. TARIFF AGITATION. l.i IN DON. AogUT't 24. The I nionist Central Headquarters, as the result of overseas visitors’ advocacy of preference, has formed ail Fmpire Development lira noli to carry out preference propaganda. Hi M'OOL PRICKS. LONDON August 2-5. The “Daily Telegraph" wool expert-, discussing the efl'e: t of an Allied loan to Germany, points out that Germany at present, is in a better position to consume large quantities of wool than she was ten rears ago. ' MYSTFRIOI'S DISK ASF IN JAPAN. TO KID. Aug. 2.5. Mneh alarm was caused by the outbreak of a mysterious epidemic in the middle west districts when 2,-5l>!) eases, !)!):) resulting in deaths, were reported in - past fortnight. In some districts the pen en!:;g.' of deaths reached 70. The epidemic is apmirontlv a form ol sleeping sjrkncss. The victims, who are mostly elderly, fall into a doze from which it is impossible to awaken, finally living. The bacteriologists, so far. are unable to trace the source of the disease, Inti belie'-,■ it i- a form of spinal meningitis. Another the* ry i. that lhe disease is a form ol brain fever, which spread all over the world a quarter of a century The di-eu-e is closely eoluieeted with brain fever. lit the winter .season when colds ttnlold You'll always be welcomed by young and old. A greeting of gladness is always shiv, M here you bring Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. It- lluvor and fragrance past jovs recall. And it' cheering wrapper is known to ML L A thrill of contentment sincere and puie M', Iconics Woods' Peppermint ('tiro.