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Hokitika Guardian, 13 March 1925, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION A remarkable case. LONDON, March 11. The Baptist Missionary Society reveals a remarkable ease of a wouldbe missioner who was rejected for service in the Congo in Africa, owing to ill health. Me decided to go into business, and to devote all the profits to the Society. This was a decade ago. Me has already given £25,000. Me was 25 when the doctor refused to pass him. and he said : “1 have seventy-five pounds in loose money at the present moment. I will give it. As I cannot work myself, the money shall work for me.” Though lie began business without any capital, the next year he gave L|s(); the third year £IOOO, and the sixth year £3OOO, and the tenth year (MOOS. In the year of his marriage his subscription was 03003. The man then wrote saving that probably his subsequent gifts would not he so large. As a fact his next donation, was increased. In order to live, the man pays himself a salary. Mis hooks are audited, and the Society benefits to the last penny of his profits.

BRITISH HIBLK ASSOCIATION LONDON. March 11

The Prime of Wales, in a speech at a dinner given to the National Rifle Association at Mansion Mouse, in connection with an appeal lor financial support, referred to the value to the Empire of competitions for the King’s Shield and the Imperial Challenge Shield. He emphasised the achievement of the Association in fostering overseas intercourse, and paid a tribute to its work in encouraging marksmanship, remarking that the standard of rapid fire in the Expeditionary I'orce was so high that the Germans were convinced it could only have been caused by machine guns. MURDER OK SIRDAR. CAIRO, March 11. Mahml Rashid, who was arrested some time ago in connection with the assassination of the Sirdar, has confessed to participation in the outrage. ARMY FIGURES. [Reuters Telegrams.] (Received this day at 11.25 a.in.) LONDON, March 12. The army estimates for 1t)25-2li are £11.50!'.RBI) compared with £15,000.000 for 1021-25. The establishment of the regular army is 100.000 as compared with 101,000 last year, including -1.000 Indian troops employed l>v the An Ministry in Iraq. The reduction is due to administrative economies. I lime* will he no reduction in the lighting units. There is a shortage of 23,000 in the strength of the British army excluding British troops i" India which approximately are up to the establishment. Recruiting during the first 12 months has been disappointing. Only thirty thousand recruits were obtained out of thirty-four thousand required. The jinny reserve is ninety-four thousand and territorial army 110.000.

LONDON, March 12

Mitchell Thompson. speaking at Croydon, declared notwithstanding contrary assertions, he was at present consulting the Dominions in regard to the establishment of an Imperial Advisory committee to assist the Rost Office in connection with the practice working of Imperial wireless, as recommended by last years '( abiin.i Committee. In the event of iavouiiible replies being received, a committee will he established under the chairmanship of the Assistant BostmasterGcneral. the wool trade. a PANIC PREDICTED. WOOL FROM PAPER. (“Sydney Sun” Cables). (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, March 12. The ‘•Graphic” prophesies an. earl) panic in the wool trade owing to the success of experiments for making synthetic wool from waste paper. THE ORIENT’S HIDDEN FORCES. CURSE THAT CAME TRUE.

(Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) PARIS. Maach 12.

The editor of the. Saigon newspaper reveals that : “A fakir at a forbidden temple in Imlo-Uhiiia solemnly cursed four visitors, these being Lord Northel ill'o, -Maurice bong. Governor of IndoOliiiia, Tudesqu, a. journalist and myself, whom lie said would die within five years if we entered. We did not beed bis warning and brushed the L'kiwir aside. Three are dead and it is ~iv turn next. European science m powerless against the Orient’s hidden forces.

MOSCOW CASKET FOR SEN. PEKING, Alarch 12.

Dr Sun Yat Sen died peacefully and was conscious till the last. He mlormetl his wife that he wished to he embalmed and placed in a casket similar to his friend Lenin. . . Dr Sun Yat Sen conversed with Ins friends an hour before bis death. The bodv will remain in state for two or three weeks until a casket arrives from Moscow.

betting profits ca.nxo'i in TAXED. Received this day at 9 9", a.ir. ) LONDON, A larch lb

Justice a. T. Rowlatt delivered ail important judgment upholding the appeal of Alexander Graham against the Income Tax Commissioner's decision that he was assessable for income de,ived from betting. Justice llowlatt -said that Graham did not go to the raics but he betted with -aid shrewdness on a large scale from h,s own home that substantiaMy .1 was bis o d> means of livelihood. K he accepted the Commissioner ;> steady betting constituted » vocation they would have to face the tact that hettin"' losses must lm permitted as offset against income from ether callings, thus opening tl.e door to punters' claims for income tax veductmns i„ respect to betting Esses. Ho he 1 that Graham's operations were m,t guui-sed like the bookmakers ami tin could net be classed as a- vocation, sc he allowed the appeal with costs.

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rRKUTF.ES Tki.f.ohav* I -Received this day at 8.00 a.m ) CAIRO- Alarch Id. Mr Alan Rowe, an Australian wlm j went to Egvpt sorpe years ago in connection with research pE STtfiSSßi ». A"«"qoft shaft thus reflecting the . n .»•> «■"- jrfiSStfSWiSSt ed,