MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1924, Page 1

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

lUBTKALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION HIGHEST BANK RATE. I’AIUS, September 12. The hank rate has been raised io seven per cent, the hiphe.st since 1873. MR THOMAS SAILS. CAPKTOWX, September 12. Air Thomas arrived from the north this afternoon anil .sailed for Copland. Interviewed, lie said lie considered South Africa a pood country for settlers with money, 'where there was no hope for merely unemployed. He intended to visit the others Dominions, hut declined to say which lie would next visit. He expected to speak on the British question on the same day as he at rived in would meet him at Madeira and put him an fait with the most rerent developments. A LA BO I'll -MOVE. LON'DON. September 12. The General Council of the Trade Filina ('impress Executive Committee nnd La hour I’arty are jointly eircularisinp affiliated labour party organisations in repaid to the Auplo-Russian Treaty, calling u ‘'every active spirit in our ranks to let the man in the street, and woman in the home, know the true facts of the case, and so pul power and moral force behind the 'Labour Government to sernri' all ovorwhelminp vote, when I’a rliamcnt was called on to ratify its Russian policy.” CHINA AND RUSSIA. I’EKT.X. September 12. The Russian I.epation was handed over to Karakhan, the Soviet Envoy, to-ilay. .1A PANE'S E LAUNCH TRAGEDY. TDK ID. September 12. The collision occurred between two launches, accordinp to the Navv Department, at tile enlramc of .Yokosuka barb while more than one hundred men were heinp transferred to tlie* Mapship Nngnto. from shore leave. Heavy rain was falling. and the llagship's launch collided with a torpedo I'oat’s launch, and sank immediately. There are no details at present, but it is believed Unit twenty men ate drowned. SI I FKI’SKIN SAFES. LONDON. September 12. At the sheepskin sales, .WOO bales were oH'cred. There was an mtive demand. ehielly on home account, with a fair demand from America and the Continent. Merinos and line crossbreds advanced A to 71 per cent compared with duly prices: medium low crossbreds 7t to 10 per cent.

INDIAN BOR.HER TROCBI.E. DEI-II I. September 12. 1 atereoiiiiiiuoal riots in Koliat result

ed in the military occupation of the city and evacuation of the entire Hindu population. under c.siort. Neigliboiirin;; tribes have observed the appeal of the British official in charge of the district to remain quiet. Imt local rill!',ails m". lire to, anil looted the bazaar. A 1 aide prevailed daring the evacuation. Hindus wildly brine revolver-.. They actually wounded three ol I heir own esi'.nt. one fatally. Every ollii'ial assistance was alforded the lieac.'less Hindus during their return to this ri ■ 1 1 • ol tlie frontier. So far a l Ml 1,0. I x llin.ln. hale tilled. ZAGIILOI'I.'S NEC! I'ITATIONS. CAIRO, September 12. It appears that Xaglihml eommunii aled !" the Egyptian Cabinet the correspond.on e bet ween Mr Alurl humid and himself and invited the views of the Cabinet which umioimon.sly agreed with the altitude of Xaghhml. who subsequently cabled that he had decided to On to l.nudnn II 23rd. Sept. It is emphasised that ZajJilul is not L"iinv to I. onion to negotiate. Imt to IS'lDoVe obstacles, and if Sill', es-fill 111' will enter into neoot in 1 ions.

lIISTOIiY OK lIO.MK. I.ONHOX, September 12. The Kellie , errespendeiit et Ihe "Deilv Chronic!, 1 " sets that Hr Ma rline Kus.e Ceiled te answer the Cevernlllelll s 11 11 111 le 11 s te apl.ear and ptedllfe the 107 lest volumes ~| I.ivy's history el Heine, which lie claims te have found. Hi-- friends say that the ,loi ter is in liidim:. working secretly on a translation. hut will appear m morrow. 1',,1ie,, searched Dr Kuscu’s house, leu Ceiind no trace et the volumes. I’ll KM I KIDS IT lit 11 ASK K.\ I’l .A IN I'll). I.ONHOX, Senteinlier 12. Ml- MacDonald, iplestiened et l.essiemeiiLit cell, el nine the purchase el M'Yitie end Price’s shares, said: "I he capital is net mine and I only technically own the shares. 'ldle matter has nothin.;; te lie with politics. "Sir Alexander (Irani received a baronetev ter putilie services, including a gilt te the Xatieliel Library of Scotland." The "M,inline Post" points out that the shares ere on public record et I'.dinburgh. no attempt at concealment 1 it*ilie nieili*.

SC MX K AT KVKTIOX. I.ONHOX. Sehteinliei 12. Clvdeheuk rent strike, which loupes on the tenants demand Cor pre-war rents end a rel'n-al to pay arrears, led t; , itinp si cue this morninp. Tlie

arrival of the sherilfs oilicers. escorted l,y police, to eject a willow and ta.nidy in St. (Iranville Street war, heralded hy tlie linpinp of hamlhells and blowing of whistles, a pre-arranged signal del an iup an eviction was oceurliup. A , rowd ef live hundred , elleete,i. '1 he o!li> els tarried out some of the furniture Imt sympathisers swarmed in and ham] i-red them, eompellinp the otli, ers le ilesist. The widow meanwhile. had a seizure, and a doctor was summoned. The e:ow,l was hecominp threatening. when the oflicers drove ell in a meter ear. an 1 v.ero ] cited with clods ef crass, and stoes. ’I he crowd afterwanls carried lack the inrnituro. Snhse‘|U.ent!v several labour town councillors addressed the crowd. A local cninniiltv* was le.nted t.i erpani.se a campaign ef re-i-lan, e. In the event of lioti-e factors declining to join in a rent trihunal. a general rent strik,"* all ever the district may ho declared. not top t ii Aitonr). I.ONHOX. See: cm her DA. Dr lhulwen, an iinti-vaeeinationist who was prominent dttrinp the smallpox epidemic last year was eoniniited fur trial at the Assizes at Gloucester. on a i lmrpe ef manslaughter, followin': on an imptest on a child. Nellie Durnham, whom the jury found had died of diphtheria and pneumonia. Hr If ad wen stated he treated the child for a cold. There was no clinical svmptoms of diphtheria. He did net take the swab from its throat. He considered the whole modern germ tlieorv to be bosh.

INDIAN RIOTS. DELHI, September 13. As the outcome of 1 lindu-Mohnmme-dan riotiti" at Koliat, the place has largely been reduced to ashes. Takin" advantage of tlie position, neiehhourino tribesmen, attracted by the prospect of loot, entered an ilset lire to the town. Troops assisting the civil authorities repeatedly fired upon the rioters and the incendiaries. The rapid spread of the flames negatived all efforts to ehoolc tlie coniln^ration.