MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

[Reuters Telegrams.] RRINC’E OK WALKS. OTTAWA, September 2:5. The Uriiue of Wales has arrived in Canada, en route to his farm in Alberta. which he is expected to reach on 'I hursday. ID* has issued ,-t statement ex pressing pleasure at his American visit. NKW MAT I I.K PLANKS. .LONDON, Kelt. 22. Tho '‘Daily Clironh.de” iiviation correspondent gives details a remark aide new battle | lane, which should restore Britain's air pre.-tige. These planes an* intended lor the defence of I.'jndon and British lov.ns, aude are iii'itlelled on the Lues of the Rlamel and Naiiier Oloiieester 1 lanes. They have a speed of 19 1 miles an hour, with lighting equipment, and, liv means of a 500 horse potter Napier “Lioness” engines they <an reach an altitude of 20,000 feet in ten minutes, after re<citing a warning of a raid, as they rise almost vertically, instead of laborious climbing. Air .Mai shall .John Knlniund is organising t.his new aeroplane deleine of London. .Willionairk m \brikd. PARIS, September 25. In connection with the marriage of Zahnrofl, the millionaire, there is a mystery, lie was a bachelor, and he was unexpectedly married In the Duchess \ alia Franca, whose husband was it Spanish Grandee. The latter died iast November. The marriage was most secret. It was held in a private chapel at Chateau lialiiieour. Zaharoll' has the reputation of being the richest man in Kurope. WINSTON CHURCHILL. LONDON, September 25. •Mr Winston Churchill has oliicially been adopted as the prospective Conservative candidate for the Tipping Division of Kssex. MKI.GIAN NKOOTTATIONS. LONDON. September 25. The “ Times ” Brussels ( orrespon(lent says: ‘’Negotiations for a trade agreement between Belgium and Germany have virtually broken down. The Belgium delegates are unable to agree to Germany’s claim for the ap plication of the most-favoured-nation clause, without consulting their Covernmenl. The negotiations may he ro sinned at a later date.”

EGYPTIAN QUESTION. PARIS, September 25. Premier Zaghlul has proceeded to Loudon to negotiate with Mr Ramsay MacDonald regarding the outstanding Anglo-Kgyptiaii questions. RUSSIAN TRKATY. ATTITUDE 0U LIBKRALS. LONDON, Sentemher 25. Mr Asquith’s letter against the Russian Treaty has dashed the hopes held in Government circles that the Liberals were going tacitly to support the existing agreement,B.a .Molist.sy the existing text of the Anglo-Russian Treaty, while seeking to amend its uuacecplable provisions. The Liberals hope 1 ltaL the Government will revise or elaborate its plan (or a Russian settlement, before llu* issue has reached a tTuieial stage in llu* House ol Commons. It is suggested tlistt tie* Government resume the Anglo-Soviet negotiation’; as a solution of the impasse. farm kh;k disastkil LONDON. September 22. Later details ate pit.dished on flit fatal lite in a burn on a Dun ioiialtl farm, in l.anark-dii.o, in w hi h live Aomen and four men (potato gatherers! lost their lives, owing to smoke pieventing their finding the ladder,vay exit. The details reveal the heroism of John Greenaii. an ex-Navy man. who slept nearest the ladderway. (.iveiiao. could have estaje l easily, hut ■ limiting: “The Wom. nl” lie went to their aid. He dragged out one girl, named (Alee, to safety.

A leseuc jarty were driven hack by the Haines und smoke, (treenail, oowever, insisted on going hack tlnoiigh the llames, ami he was found dead near the. live women victims, including two of the girl Cree’.i sisters.

ESCAPE FROM RESCUE llt IMF.. J.ONDON, September 22. Relic Agar. Muriel Urown and Phyllis Shaw, girl inmates of a I’esi lie flomc at Leeds, carried cut a (lining imip. They hound and gagged tl. • matron, hand and font. They also locked two other inmates in a bedroom. and gagged a dog with a dishcloth. I hey next cut the telephone wires to prevent an alarm, and escaped in a taxicab, taking with them small sums of money. Of the tin be, only the girl Agar has beer, rr-arrested.

WKMJH.KY EXHIBITION. LONDON, Sept. 23The “Daily Express” says that the Cabinet have decided that so lar as thev are eoneenied. MVml.ley Exhibition will end this year. I his attitude will only he modified if a considerable change of opinion is disclosed on the purt of the Dominions' Oovernmeiits. a',,,1 leading exhibitors, and if new liaiincial assurances, now absent, arc fort licoining.

N FAY CABLE SYSTEM. LONDON. Sept. 2.1. Professor Wagner, President of tin Rcrlin Telegraphic Technical Institute claims to have discovered a method foi trails-oceanic cabling at a tlioi.sam lett -rs per minute. Tbe present maxi mum is two hundred. Tt is intended t( emstruet cables between Germany am United States under the M ngucr sys telii.