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Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1924, Page 3

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MAORI BA IL DISPLAY. LONDON. September 13

In (outlet linn with Carnival week at Wemhle.v. Australia and New Zealand staged picturesque representations oi overseas life. Now Zealand’s display included steaming geysers and a Maori Pah. a herein one hundred meiTwaml girls gave Maori songs and dames hell.re thousands of s] c ■tutors. SOVIET 111 SSI A. VISCOUNT GREY'S INDICTMENT. LONDON, Sept. Is. Viscount (flay, speaking at Edinburgh Liberal Club, discussed the Russian loan, lie said “The Soviet was brought into existence hv massacic. mill is maintained by espionage and executions. The present, Russian Government has destroyed the couiitM s productive capacity, and il they v.cic going to pledge British I'.’edit anti to support the existing state of things there prcscntlv there would he no British credit to pledge. The Russian Treitv L not a real thing, hut a mane believe. it has been claimed in Russia as being n I'oiVed capitulation by the British Government.

SMALLPOX IN BRITAIN. lONDON. Sept. IS. The Health .Ministry states that smalloox is still spreading hath in Enghind and Wales. It is now prevalent in !)l districts. The total number ol eases is 2709. as compared with IBUI during the corresponding period ol 1828. " . , It is most severe in Derhvstiue, where there are RlHtl cases. In Nottingham there are -101 eases. Generally it is not fatal.

KB FIT AND HEALTH. A NECESSITY NOT A I.ENTRY. LONDON. September 18. hi the ‘ Daily Telegraph." Dr. Ar--I,'ithnot Lane states that fruit eating is a ne'-ossity. not a luxury, ft is the only certain way of staying the rapid!v increasing plague id earner and innumerable other diseases, from which fruit eating natives are free.

A leading fruit impo: ter. commenting on the above says the tendency towards mere fruit eating is universal.

The banana is most popular. '1 he apple continues to hold its own. and if their Dominion friends only discard their antiquated menus of grading and packing, in order to send limit which will open up in good condition, there is no reason why a big apple trade should not he developed within the Eml'itc. At present New Zealand alone seems to have grasped the importance of .grading and packing te meet the requirements here, while somi of her neighbours appear incapable of appreciating the mest rudimc.nlaiy requirements.

FOOD TAXES REDUCED. BARIS. September ID. Cu-binet has decided to reduce the import duties on certain essential fcodstiilfs, inclining condensed milk, .sixty-six per cent, butter sixty, cheese, barley, rice and preserveil. vegetables, liiTy.

GEORGIAN REVOLT. Paris. Sept. is. The Georgian Legation at Baris practically eoiilirms the news that the revolt there against Soviet rule has laded. It states that the Bolsheviks, with armoured tanks and aeroplanes. y« t t to Georgia and regained control of the main railway line. One thousand insurgents have retired to tlm mountains, declaring their intention of continuing the struggle in the form of guerilla warfare. AFGHANISTAN TROFRI.E. DELHI. Sept. 18. Set; 're lighting has occurred al Kl’osl between the Amir's troops and re I. el tribesmen, resulting in ihe defeat of the latter. Thirteen hundred were killed. The lto.vali.--t leader. General Abdul Hamid, and a considerable number of his followers fell. A second engagement drove the rebels to the hilTs. A leading Afghan oliieial from Kabul, has arrived with an offer of generous terms l«t the insurrectionists on condition that lln-y lay down their arms, and submit.

CIVIL WAR IN PERSIA

DELHI, September I*. Civil war i> threatening in South Persia. A powerful Sheik has relused to pav taxes and has gathered a huge force to repel the Government’s troops sent to subdue him. The pipeline of the Anglo-IVrsiail Oil Company, which runs through the Sheik’s property, is endangered. ■HIE GUN-RUNNING NORDMARK. arms being DISCHARGED. (Received this day at, s a.m.) CAPETOWN. September If. The discharging of the German shin Nordmark (cabled on 17th.) has ;ommeneed. Thousands of rifles and cases of ammunition have been landed, being all of German inanufactu:e. The South Afrkan yui.hoat I’m tea is berthed astern of the Nordmark. watching the operations. It is "rumouivd the Nc.dmark was shadowed during her voyage to Durban.

POSITION IN MOROCCO. .Received this day at S a.m.) MADRID. September If). Ail official (omnmtiifiue reports the attempt to relieve the post at. Gnrgo.e was fiercely resisted by the enemy, The npe.atiou will lie continued to-day. A Spanish aeroplane was shot down and caught lire, the occupants, a captain and a sergt. being killed. Interviewed by ‘‘Le Journals Madrid correspondent a high military an-, thority strongly denied the reports of negotiators between Spain and Alidelliriin on the basis of the terms proposed by the Rilfs last year. He declared the army would not agree to the humiliating of a peace dependent on the evacuation of Tetiiau, w hich would amount t > a ihetrayal of iuternatiomil agreements an:l lead to a revolution in Spain. DORTMUND EVACUATED. BERLIN. September If). The “Frankfurter Zeitung” reportthe French troops evacuated part ol the Dortmund region and have begin to evacuate the Limburgauderlahn d:s trict, near Wiesbaden.

NEW FIND in EGYPT. CAIRO. Sept. IS. What Mr Firth, of the. Egyptian Antiquities Department describes as one of the most important arehaelogual discoveries during recent years, has been made adjacent to the famous Step Pyramid at Sakkara, near Cairo. It consists of two tombs and chapels cf the Third Dynasty, 'built in a style differing from Egyptian architecture in almost every respect. They are the earliest stone buildings known. "Work lies only been proceeding two months oil this site, which it is hoped will he completely cleared during the coming winter.