MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1924, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

/“Sydney Sun” Cables). PRIME MINISTER’S HANDICAP. LONDON, September It!. .Maintaining that the Prime .Ministership is n i place for a poor man, and pointing out that .Mr Ramsay .MacDonald, owing to his position, is fat worse iff materially ilian any of the other Secretaries of State. Sir Robert Donald (ehairman of the Empire Press Pni.m). in a letter lo the •'Times.’’ expresses the 111 • i ll iis ll that this Stale nl tilings might not to he allowed lo continue. There will he otlu-r Prime Ministers wlio-e means also will l.e imeqiiul to i !:e financial burdens of the

Tin* Prime Ministers of Continental cell'll l ies have iiHieially-niaintaiiied residences. large ell t erta i iiitieiit allowanees ami even i.lliiiallv endowed leot-

Sir Rol.ert thinks it timvorlliy cl great country to allow its highest ofi; eers in he placed in an uildiguilie position by their being liaiidieapped i the eliieieid discharge of their diltic hv tiiiiieessarv financial anxiety.

STONED TO DEATH. LONDON. September 1:5. A crowd at Galway stoned .Matthew foniiolly. a iormer Free State n/iic;.r till he fell unconscious, when an oh woman killed him by smashing hihead with a big stone.

STRANGE RI GAMY CAST

LONDON. September 11. * Amatory ju-iilsil '* was Imw Sii Ernest Wild, tile l.ofidi.n " R.*eorder." desiril.c.l the aetion. of Mi" .Mount, a handsome nurse, one ol llu- parties in a l.igalny ease. Pv dim of tears, the uimotiiu einciit that she had lost her job and persona! publication ol the banns, she induced Lewis Friend, whose wile had heen unfaithful, to marry her. Friend, who was charged with bignuiv received a nominal sentence taidaiiio'.iiit to his discharge.