MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1925, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

At'STU.M.IAN ANO N.Z. CADI.K AfSOOI A'l'll.N A MAD PRINCE. EEI.DLADE. May (h Prince (ieni-'e of Eerhiii who has been ['laced under special medical guardianship, laid Die fix’d idea that he was in danger, and feared specially nltcmpts to poison him. His behaviour became immU'erable. He look every occasion to insult the King mid litem Ix-rs of the C'ahinet. A Royal Counsel will short ly decide Die Prince’s permiuiettl residence. NEW' ZEALAND LOAN. LONDON. May. <i. ArrangeineutK are being made lor a New Zealand loan of seven millions nt four and a-lmll per cent. PRINCESS ROYAL. (Received this day at 10.-5 a.m., LONDON, -May 0. A bulletin states the Princess Royal's condition occasioned rather me anxiety during the latter part oi yesterday, hut after a transfusion of blood, there hail been a definite improvement. CHASING THIEVES. (Received this day at 11. k> “ l - m -) I |ON DON, May 0. A motor car with live occupants was observed by the police at Stroud, travelling iti the direction of Pauswick at midnight. 'The men answered the description of a g“"K "anted m connection with recent huiglai its m

Gloucester. The police secured a mrs tor ear and pursued and met the gang returning from Pauswick wlicic a g,uace had been broken into- The gangs ear swerved to avoid a collision “ml overturned. Three escaped, hut two other** were pinned under the ■wreckage. dead. A quanLity of stolen goods to foui.Ti in the ear. The police arc scouring the wooded Cotswold lulls, in a search for the others.

CHANCELLOR OF OXFORD. [Kectehs Teeeoiiams. J LONDON', May 0. A mooting of members of the Convocation last, evening unanimously adopted Lord Milner as a candidate for the Chancellorship of Oxlord l niver- , sitv. It was stated Lord Millner s ' 1 11 1 toss » few days ago appeared likely to prevent his candidature, hut the outlook of his health since was most optimistic. SEIZURE OF NARCOTICS. (Received this day at U--d a.m.l HAGUE, May 0. A great seizure of narcotics was made at Rotterdam. The police were informd from Antwrp that a "otoreious smuggler of narcotics had consigned to Rotterdam two cases enclosed in safes, prolmhly containing narcotics. The police seized the safes m a warehouse, each weighing seventeen hundred kilogrammes. They tound the boxes filled with raw opium, packed between the outer and intiei sidi. . The police also seized, in another warehouse, ten cases alleged!.' retaining dye-stuffs which were found to contain boxes of raw opium, also mi ported in safes. Altogethei about a thousand kilos of opium were seized. One alleged smuggler a Russian lning in Antwerp, has been arrested. rank selling rate. LONDON. May 0. The Associated hanks have reduced the selling rate on Australia to 10s per cent, premium drafts and 15s cable transfers. COMEDIAN’S DEATH. MADRID, May G. Ohitiuary—The eomedHaln. Alfred Lester, from pneumonia, while on a health tour.