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Hokitika Guardian, 30 March 1925, Page 3

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LADY COWAN’S ORDEAL. LONDON, March 27

A fervent plea for her late husband’s good name was made by Lady Cowans (widow of General Sir J. Cowans, wbo.se relations with the plaintifF figured prominently in the Dennistoun case) in the course of an interview with the “Evening Standard”. She said:—“l owe it to Sir John to say that ho was the soul of kindness. I always had everything that my heart could desire. Now Ids name has been sacrificed, and torn to pieces. To read the case day by day was for mo as though I was being suffocated. Yet I could not put out a hand. Apart from the burning injustice of a- dead man’s reputation being at the mercy of a public scandal l would like to ask how it is possible that these things can he blazoned abroad without those most intimate!) concerned being given notice. Until I saw the reports in the newspapers ) had no idea that such things could ever happen. I immediately rushed from the country to London. I consulted solicitors, hut on every hand, I was told “No one can hold a brie.’ for the dead.” Can anything he imagined that is more unfair and more agonising to those whom such a man leaves behind than that, being dead, he is not allowed the right accorded to an ordinary criminal. All my husband's .sins were the sins of kindness and generosity, but they were never against the interests of bis rouiiLiy. Another of tbe effects of this case makes me uKterly miserable. It 'is the people who are saving that the revelations represent English society. It is not true. They are no more an indication of the lives of the aristocracy (for they are not of it) than is the individual from the mass of the people who makes a charge re] resentativc of the general population.” GOLD ISSUE. CAPETOWN, March 28 After an absence of ten years, sovereigns reappeared at Johannesburg today. Four hundred thousand of them were distributed to the miners as their weekly wages. PEACEFUL REVOLUTION. LONDON, March 28. Sir Patrick Hastings, Labour M.P., speaking at Oxtord. said that there was no need tor a revolution in England. II the people only voted as they should, then there would he the biggest revolution that the country had over known, and no one need use any ha vonets.

AN IMPORTANT CASK. (Received this dav at 9.25 1.m.) LONDON, March 30

All important test suit opens on Monday, questioning the validity of the detention of prisoners sentenced in Ulster and now in British prisons. Ihe case affects fifty prisoners. If they are held to he illegally detained the Home Secretary becomes liable lor heavy dam-

CAPTURED BY COMMUNISTS. (Received this day at. 9.J0 a.m.)

C'APETOWN, March 30. At a conference of trade union delegates at (Johannesburg for the purpose of forming a United Association of Employees on the principle of the one big union, the Minister for Labour attended and expressed his approval of the movement.

The meetings were held behind closed doors, hut it is now announced the conference was practically a .fiasco owing In the fact that it was captured by the Communists. Two Communist leaders, Andrews and Glass, were elected secretary and treasurer. It is expected that few, if any, trade unions will affiliate with tbe mnlercncc A FIRST-CLASS BURIAL. ROME. March 3(1. “The Protocol has had a first-class burial, let’s forget it,” declared Sig T nor Mussolini in a speech in the Italian Parliament. Mussolini recalled the previous definition of the Protocol that it was an admirable machine specially devised to create new wars on the pretext ol averting them. KURDISH REVOLT. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 20. Turkish troops have begun a general offensive against the Kurds with llicohject of encircling them and compelling them to surrender. ARMY REDUCTIONS. (Received this da’-' at.9.Jo a.in.) LONDON, March 29. It should lie understood regarding the War Office reduction announcement that the total reduction is practically four army divisions, the purpose of this reduction being to effect an improvement, inter alia, in the weapons of the air force. GENERAL RAWLIXSOX’S DEATH DEPLORED. DELHI, March 29. General Rawlinson’s death is deplored throughout India. His body will he held in state until a memorial service on the 31st- when it will he conveyed to Bombay for transport and interment in England, JAP SUFFRAGE BILL. TOTvIO, March 29. A Suffrage Bill in an amended form will bo submitted to both Houses. It excludes from the franchise heads of Peers families as well as those who. owing to their poverty, are dependent on public or private assistance for their means of livelihood. The clause on which most ol the dispute centred deprives the Peers o! their rights in the lower House, also extends the residential qualifications from six months to twelve months, while ’the electorate under the original text was estimated at fourteen millions was a.-xeßied, although the amendments are believed to reduce this by two or three millions.

JOKE ON UNIVERSITY authorities.

(Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) CAPETOWN, -March 29‘.

The whole’country is laughing at a joke perpetrated on the literary authorities of the Band University ir a magazine lempotitiou. "Shelley’i lyric, like tho ghost of a dear friend dead was submitted under a nom do plume.. Professor Bident was awarded third prize, the Judges stating the writer showed promise and deserved encouragement, hut diction was anything hut clear.

PRINCE RECEIVES LORD JKLLICOi'.. LONDON', March 29. Before departing for South Africa the Prince of Wales received Lord Jellicoe. FRENCH MINE DISASTER. PARIS, March 28. The cage which crashed to the bottom of the shaft at the Remans Pit had been in use for only two months. It was built in two storeys, and was making its first trip with human freight. Previously it had been used for carrying coal.

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