MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 December 1924, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.] COMMONWEALTH LOAN. fJUeoived this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. Dec. I. ,Subscriptions In the Commonwealth loan total L'10,075,000 PENA T.TI F.S REMITTED. LONDON. Dereniher I. It is understood the Home Office has remitted the penalties on Firmin in connection with the gun running case. He will lie released.

MU.SSOLINPS MKSSAGE. ROM H, Dceemher I

.Mussolini, in a. message to the local Fascist .Executives, declared a revision of the party’s moral, mental and political position is necessary. 'I hough he deprecates attaching excessive importance to the changes of public opinion, .Mussolini says the impression resulting from the recent incidents must he educed. The people supported Faseism thinking it would re-establish order. This eonlideiiee must not la* abused. Discreditable elements, whatever their past services, must la* eliminated, as also personal C|iiarrels.

A DIAMOND RUSH

(Received this day at, 11.25 a.m.) CAPETOWN. Dec. I.

Mud, interest Inis been aroused l>v the discovery of apparently rich (listinoi'.dlVrcHis deposits in tin* v;ill(*v (>i ]\ro(ii river, near I’ottchef.stroom, Transvaal. ITnndreds of prospectors are at work. One farm, which was only jiroelaimoil a fortnight ago is now a township with a thousand inhabitants. Farm homesteads and cattle kraals are hemmed in by claims, on which digging is feverishly proceeding. Cafes. f'arnocs, shops and stores have ahead.v sprung u|i and a rush is setting in.

DUK EOF YOltK. LONDON’. Do.*. 1. The Duke and Duchess of A oik have departed for Fast Alriea.

SMYRNA EIRE. IMPORTANT CLAIMS. (Deceived this day at 11.2 d a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 1. An important, test case arising out ol the invent lire at S.vmrna in September 1022. and involving a vast sum of immev”has begun in the Commercial Court. London. The plaintiffs are the American Tobacco Cov.. who claimed to recover insurance on the property destroyed l>v lire from the (Juardian Assurance Company. The liability of a number of insurance companies to pay insurances on other destroyed property will depend on the judgment in his ease. Plaintiff’s counsel said the issue was ■whether the lire was accidental or came within the exceptions of (ire policies whereon the action was brought. Ills ease was that the lire was accidental. The hearing was adjourned. RUSSIAN RFVOLT. RHYAL, Dee. 1.

Pods occupied the railway station and attempted to seize the telegraph and telenhonc ollices. The Minister of Communications was shot while on the wav to the station Government troops recaptured the station and restored order after scattered fights in which hand grenades and machine guns wore used. There were a number of casualties including members of the police force.