MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1925, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

4UBTHALIAN AND N.Z. OAF'aB ASSOCIATION. TARZAN OF THE APES. A MISERABLE EXISTENCE. LONDON, Jan. 18. Tlio “Daily Chronicle,” says that the police dug a tunnel through a barricade of rubbish, which William MacKarlane had erected in a room occupied by him at Islington. There they found a man in a semi-conscious state, dying of starvation, and clad in a loin cloth. He resembled “Tarzan of the Apes.” The only clue to MacFarlane’s iriends is a letter, written years ago, by his soil who is now in New Zealand. This was found mixed up with the rubbish. MacFarlane paid 3s 6d weekly for rent. He spoilt his days in picking up rags, date stones, old iron, bottles and milk tins in the streets. There were seven tons of rubbish in his room. A et MacFarlane had £ll6 in t[ie Savings Bank, besides a number .of money orders, deeds of house property, and shares in a music hall. When asked about his relatives, MacFnrlano muttered: “I have none. They are all gone!’.’ ANOTHER MYSTERY. POLICE’S SUDDEN MOVE. LONDON, Jan. IS. An element of mystery surrounds the disappearance and the present whereabouts of the Honourable Gwyneth Morgan, aged 30. the daughter of Lord Tredegear. She vanished from the house of friends, near Wimbledon, London .during a thick fog on Dec. llto. She was clad only in pyjamas, and a dressing gowp. and was carrying The police have - instituted a <Epj| search. They dragged the ponds on Wimbledon Common. Then, suddenly, for reasons which have not boon divulged. they abandoned their investigations hut anxious inquiries continue to he made by the parents.

NAVAL SECRETS STOLEN. LONDON. January 18. Owing to a series of leakages concerning important naval sejeTcts, a series of midnight raids have been carlied out in Portsmouth Dockyard, rod at Gravesend. Five men and a woman "ere arrested. The authorities arc reticent. LONDON, January 18. The “Daily Mail” states: “The utmost importance is attached in London to the arrests resulting from weekend raids in Hnuwell. Stock well and. Wcolwich. Two of the accused, are stated to he civil servant attached to the Portsmouth Dockyard, and tft he members of the All Irish Republican Extremist- Party. They were arrested under tbe Official Secret Act.It is believed a plot was designed to create ill feeling in England against the Irish Free State, in pursuance of a Republican object of making friend Iv Anglo-Irish relations impossi'ib The Special Servile Branch of Sait bind Ynid. working ill conjunct ioi with high officials in the Home Office secured knowledge < 7 the plot throng' iutertopted letters,••which were oreim copied and forwarded to the address sets. The authorities are exercising special vigilance in the Dockyards. It

is alleged that the accused, who were (liistauty shadowed, ofiDijined information as to the movements of warships from Admiralty officials in Portsmouth and other dockyards, and also what tlu’y attempted to get in touch with couth km tin I employees in the dockyards in different parts of the country. * FRENCH RAILWAY TRAGEDY.’ PARIS, January IS. Derailed while crossing a river near Dijon the engine ami the first eoa fit of a passenger train were precipitated down an embankment. Five pet sous were killed. The father of a girl passenger, imagining his daughter among the killed. threw himself into the river, and was drowned. It was a I tor wards discovered that his daughter v.as safe. _— > TROTSKY AND LENINISM. MOSCOW, January 18. 'The semi-official plenary session of the Executive Committee and Central Control Party adopted a resolution that owing to M. Trotsky’s attitude towards Leninism, it was impossible that lie should retain control of the Army or a post on the Revolutionary Win- Council. The resolution warns M„ Tuctsky that unless lie submits to party discipline. he will be removed from the Political Bureau, and from the Executive Committee. The resolution followed the reading of a statement by M. Trotsky, 'who was unable to be present owing to liis \ illness. / CHURCH UNION. LONDON, January Kb At the invitation of the Dean of Canterbury, and with the ippio >ai of the Archbishop, the Reverend L D Jones, Chairman of the Congry.ational Union. preached in Cauti bury Cathedral on Sunday evening. Rev. Jones was prominent in discus: •is ' upon re-union at Lambeth Palace. POLICEMAN MURDERED. LONDON. Jan. 1S ; The mysterious murder of Albert Willitts, a vniimr policeman, while on the beat, in the centre of Wolverhampton, "" > i, exercising the authorities. Apparently Willitts detected a man peering into the window of a nursing home, and arrested him. Then it is surmised, someone crept up behind in the darkness. and fired three shots, the bullets piercing Willitt’s brain. The murder er escaped.