MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1925, Page 3

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAUL* ASSOCIATION. cokku. rs estate:. LONDON, April 2!L .Justice Eve has decided that \ yver is entitled to ten thousand under Corelli’s will, ami also to royalties under Corelli’s copyrights. STEEL MOUSES. LONDON, Anril 2G. Tin* Court of Inquiry into steel houses (cabled on March loth) reported that the fear that the adoption of such a scheme would unduly compete with the recognised building industry, was groundless, since the enormous need for houses cannot he made up in manv years, whatever scheme is adopted. The report generally -vconcludes that a scheme for steel houses marks a a serious attempt, conceived along scientific lines to organise productive power to meet an urgent need.

GERMAN MONARCHY. LONDON, April 2G. The restoration of the Monarchy in Germany is only a question of time, writes General Ahirgan in an article in the. “Weekly Despatch”. Morgan was a member oi' the Allied Mission of military control in Germany from 1919 to 15)23. He says everything that has happened in Germany in the past fno years points in this directions. The

change of public tcMiiper in Germany jkr resfocting tho .Monarchy is astonishing. When I lir.st went to Germany in 1019 the Monarchy seemed nunc lor ever, none were so poor as to do it reverf’iue. Within twenty-four hours twenty-two thrones and sceptics tiimhl'ed in the dust. Never was the •Rcpuhlieiui movement more complete, never was dynastic capitulation more abject. Kings, Grand Dukes, Dukes, and serene highnesses hoi ted for cover like ralihits. They stole down the hack stairs of palaces at night and vanished across the frontier. No voice was raised in favour of these vanishing pomps, once so dear to the German, no hand was lifted to prop the fallen thrones. - How has the prestige of Hoheiiwillorens Sheen revived. The answer is tradition, ' n i,b;l hy the Nationalist parties cunning policy. The Hohcnzollorcus tradition is far stronger than any individual member of the dynasty. Germans forget the ex-Kaiser's disastrous record hut they remember Frederick the Great, Soon after the Kaiser's debacle the 'Nationalists used every propagandist method, films, plays, posters and brochures to quicken dormant memories of the King, who had made Prussia. The groat cult of Frederick grew i,p. The Nationalists most effective electioneering poster was a portrait of asking: “What has become of my Prussia." If Bimlenhurg is electod the restoration of the monarchy will certainly follow. If defeated which is probable the nationalists will V have nailed their colors to the mast. The defeat of Republicans in this momentous election will mean irretrievable defeat; to the Monarchists it will be only a cheek.

t FOOTBALL OFFS IDF DON DON April 26. Tlie Council of the Football Association decided to recommend to the an■w mini meetings that Die offside law he amended so that there need he only two plavors, including the goalkeeper > i„ front of a player receiving the ball.