MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1925, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[Reuters Telegrams.]

REMARKABLE LEGAL CASE

LONDON, March 14

There were surprising revelations when Lord Ashmore gave judgment at Edinburgh for tile Bank of England in the action (cabled March ,13th), in which, tlie relatives ol' a man named Wilson made a large .sum, arising ont of alleged forgeries by his agent and secretary, named Anderson. Lord Ashmore held that there had been no forgery by Anderson, who had Wilson’s authority to sign transfers. The case revealed that Wilson had systematically made false income tax returns for years. He returned his income at Co,ooo instead of C20,0()f).

Anderson’s expensive mode of living and his heavy hotting, purchases of motor cars, supported the trustees suspicions that he was misappropriating Wilson’s money, and it was not proved that Anderson accounted for the hoods and stocks which he realised for Wilson, hut this was not the issue in the present case.

Lord Ashmore’s decision proves that Anderson was not guilty ol 'forging and titering, for which he is now undergoing a sentence ol seven years penal servitude.

SINGAPORE BASE VOTE. LONDON, March 1.3

The Navy Estimates reveal that C“'),(!(HI has been spent to date on the Singapore base and that- L 230,000 is being voted this year lor it, tearing Cl), ID!), 0110 required to complete the work. I-Vr an oil fuel store there the expenditure has up to the present been 1572.000 and a further sum of C 1 -f,4-13 is being voted lor it this year, leaving C‘ISS.7OO required to complete the installation. CABINET CHANCES. CAIRO, March 13 There has been a re-slmll'ling of portfolios, which has resulted in a much stronger Cabinet, in which it is noteworthy that /invar Pasha remains Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. Sulky, is Minister of the Interior. An ex-l’remier, Kohia Ibrahim. is Minister of Einanee, while Doctor Alymoher is Minister of Education, and two ex-Zaghulists, Ismail Sirvv and Moussa Ettad are Ministers of Public Works and War respectively. MONKEYS AND 01. AND Th’EATM ENT. DELHI, March 15. A regular trade in monkeys lor the European market has sprung up in India allegedly for thyroid gland purposes. This has apparently alarmed some quarters and the Home Minister asked the Imperial Assembly at Delhi i! Government would lake steps to stop the export, with a view to preventing the extinction of Dm bugo monkey population, also il Government would lake a census of monkeys, flit’ Minister admitted the recent export of four thousand monkeys to Europe but did not know if they were for gland purposes. Amid laugher, he declined the proposal to take a census of monkeys, ond also refused to interfere with their export.