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Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1925, Page 2

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GREEK CHURCH QUESTION. LONDON, February 11. To the House of Lords, replying to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who raised the question of the Turkish expulsion of the Oecumenical Patriarch Lord Curzon said that the Government was of the opinion that this matter was emphatically one which the parties concerned ought to settle themselves. The Government, who were in absolute accord with various Allies in connection with this subject, would exert their influence towards securing a peaceful settlement. AXG LO-SCOTTISH CHURCH UNION LONDON, February 10. The C hurch of Scotland Bill introduced previously by a. Conservative was reintroduced in the House of Commons by Sir John Gilmore, who, in moving the second reading, said the Bill aimed at increasing the control of the Church over its properties and endowments, lie believed the measuie would open the way at an early date to the union desired between the Established Church and the United Tree Church, holding out the prospect of an infinitely better Christian service to the- Scottish people. The second reading was carried. NEWSPAPER AND COURT REPORT LONDON, February 11. The Court of the King’s Bench discharged the rule granted on February (i, calling upon the Editor and the publishers of the “ Evening News” to show cause why they should not lx; committed for contempt of court for the paper’s report of the Court’s comments to the Grand Jury on the Hobbs

The Lord Chief Justice said that it was too late in the day to argue that a newspaper was not entitled to report charges to grand juries. It was a serious misfortune that such a charge should he delivered. It wits long, indeed. since a Judge had prematurely v expressed the opinion that the ultimate verdict of the petty jury would he of a particular kind. The newspaper should not be punished for being the publishing agency of a report which on the whole, was fair and accurate. The Court made no order as to costs.

COMMUNISTS AND FA SCI STL PARIS, February 10. Violent lighting occurred in Marseilles when Communists tried to break up a meeting addressed by General Do Castclnau, one < f the French leader# of Fas' ism. Sixty persons were injured. One was shot dead. PARIS, February 11. Two were killed r..nd a hundred injured in the Communist demonstration at Marseilles against members of the Catholic League, who were holding a conference. 11 ET.TCOT TER contest. LONDON, February 10. Out of sixteen entries in the Air Ministry Heliccopter Competition for a prize of fifty thousand pounds, the only one undertaking the tests at Tarnborough in April is an American designer. Mr Berliner. Mr bonis Brennan’s helicopter has not vet left the sheds at Farnborough

ST. PAUL’S COLLECTION. LONDON, February 10. “The Times” Fund ill aid of PnnJ'js Onthech-ol i«iv lampunts -to £■232.102. A BIGAMIST’S CONFESSION. LONDON, February 10. 1 Arthur Wicks was committed for trial on his own concfssion, for bigamy. Wicks told the police that be first married in South Africa, in 1880. Later lie discovered that bis wife’s first busla ml. was still alive. When lie hoard that the latter really was dead lie remarried his’wife. Later, he went to \ow Zealand,- hut never heard from his wife Ire in 1007 to 14)18. Wicks served with the New Zealanders in France. During the war, when believing his wife dead, lie married Phyllis Dobson. |.-ator on he learned that Ida first wife was still alive.

CROYDON AIR. SMASH. LONDON, February 11. The report of the Air Ministry investigation into the Croydon Aeroplane disaster on December 2-1 says that no Air Ministry or Imperial Airways official was in any way negligent, amt u i blame is attributable, to the pilot. The dive earthward was due to a loss of control, combined with a. stall while the pilot was trying to make a. forced lauding. Some defects developed, but then 1 ill's nothing to rhuw whether they were in the engine or in its installation. This was not the primary cause of the accident, hut they may have been contributory causes. [.NCRE\SE IN NAVAL ESTIMATES. LONDON, Eel). 11. The Daily Express lobbyist says: As a result of Mr Churchill's eflort, the Army Estimates have been reduced hv half a million and the Air Force Estimates hv three millions, hut the Admiratlv’s Estimates still show ail enormous increase. POPE TO TOUR WORLD. LONDON. Feb. 11. The following appears prominently in the “Morning Post”:—“lt is understood in Roman Catholic circles in England that there is a considerable likelihood of a Concordat being shortly reached between the Pope and Signor Mussolini (Premier of Italy) in which case His Holiness proposes to make a tour of the world.” This is the most precise .statement so far made on a subject whereon there ‘have been many previous reports (as recorded in cables ini March 11th. and 1-1 tli. 1921.

LUNACY INQUIRY. PARKER’S BEY EL ATI 0X S. LONDON, February 10. The Chairman of the Lunacy Commission objected to the one-sided language of the Society for Lunacy Reform’s memorandum. which declared that “ It would take a Dante to describe the distressing horror—striking qualities of the gloomy odour—laden asylum wards.” The Chairman said that, while it must be admitted that most deplorable incidents have occurred in certain institutions, it should not go forth to the public that the intolerable conditions are general in their asylums. Mr Parker, continuing his evidence, insisted that much truth underlay Ue Society's memorandum. He had seen men coming out of the trenches and from asylums. There was hut little difference between them. Jt was a terrible thing to mix a drastic purgative like croton oil with the patients’ food. The knowledge that their food was drugged had a serious effect on the patients. Even when their food was not drugged, tho patients often were under the impression that it was, and they would not touch any food for days, until forced by hunger to do so, though in some eases patioots were forcibly fed hv a tube immediately thev refused to eat.