MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 August 1924, Page 2

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

tCHIIIAMAN AM) N.Z. 0'31.E ASSOCIATION. THIRD INTKRNATInXAL. LONDON. August 2b. .Inn Larkin t\» ovatioited on hi.s return to Dublin from Moscow. He said that the Third International had appointed twenty-live men, including himself, to govern the World. A Soviet army was ready to march to the support of the Irish workers, lie said Russian ships, would shortly arrive in Dublin liarhott 1. llt USING RFFOUM. LONDON, August 20. Following the .settlement of the strike in the building trade, building has become unusually active. houses being built throughout the country. J resulting in a shortage of materials. Pricks are now actually being imported to Uritain from the Continent. In view of the long continued sliort...ge cf houses, the revival of speculative building is welcome.

CtII.OXIAI. CONTROL. PKRXK. Aug. 20. The elo'ing session of the in ter-Par-liamentary Congress agreed on the principle that the open door should lie extended to all colonies; that traflii: in arms and ammunition to the colonies should he controlled by the l.eaguo ol .Nations anti that the drug truflio should he controlled hv an iniernatimtal organisal ion. The Congress next year meets in Wa-him-ion 'on the ittvitalim •• President Coolidge. CF.RMA.X WOMAN MI RDKRFR IS RULIN'. Aug. 2d. Ftau Kruger, an extremely wealthy widow. Ic s I'i-on ci ifstod and charged with murdering iter tiuee husbands. "I'ti!- p-ilit- state {'ran Kruger has mtule a prat-liet- of marrying ohl, wealthy men. Three of these have diet I mysteriously. hot|ueathing her their whole fortunes. Her last husband was aged 7:1. lie was found with i is throat tut. When at rested Frau Kruger was negotiating with a matrimonial agency for lour husbands. I' NK.M 1 ’ 1.0 V1:1) INCH F. A STXG. I.OXDOX. August 2d. rncmnloynietit is steadily growing worse tinting tin- | ttst six weeks. Last we-l; the total of ttnem;-loved inci'cnset! by thirty ihou-and. It i.s now 1 12:i.!Mi'i.