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Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1925, Page 3

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A -SOVIET’ WIN. (Itoecived this day at 11.‘23 a.m.) LONDON, -May 11. Jl- -lustiee Atkin ban ordered Omni, cabled on January 2S)th. to hand over the archives to the Soviet, holding that Britain's recognition of the Soviet entitled the hitter to possession of thu documents. PH INC It OF WALES. CAPETOWN, May li. The Prince of Wales has arrived at Hurt Elizabeth. He addressed the lirst large gathering el' native,s. eliielly n. Zulus, whom he cn-utioind against mistrust of those ill authority. ACCIDENT TO ZA.N.XT. (deceived this day at 1 I .‘23 a.m.) TOKIO. May 11. When leaving the water til, Ortika. two limits <d' Zauni's plane broke and it overturned. Zanui and his companions were not injured. The plane was lowed ashore. A corin' decision. NKiW YORK, May 11. The Jury in the New -Jersey Court rendered a verdict for JO,PHI dollars in favour of John Elilni lbnlv of Cornua N.S.W., in an action against l.neb with rabbit skins for the season against letters of credit. Loch I'-iled to accept shipment of the third anil fourth lots which were then sent by Dalgetv and Cey., Daily’s agents, to New York and Dmidnn respectively, where they were sold at a sacrifice. The verdict represents the loss entailed, with interest to date. Tim Court dismissed lambs' defence that the skins were not of good quality hohling t'eil the same were good seasonable merchandise. THE HIKES DISI-0 DC ED. •Uoceived this duv ut K.ul> a.m.) LONDON, May 11.

Reiitcr's Rabat corrcsnondeut reports that at, (lawn yesterday Kromli columns, under (lenorals Coloinlmt and Freydoiiherg, supported hy many aeroplanes and artillery, dislodged _ the pill's alter stnliliorn resistance irmn their fortified positions on the Unban ranee. Retreating northwards they were plastered hy French aviators, the Kid's’ losses hoi UK severe. TlJe withdrawal was general hy noon. Iho French relieved several posts hv using tin* hayonet. STC DENTS’ UNDESIRABLE BEHAVIOUR. (Received tliis day at 5.,10 a.Til.) LO.NDD.N, .May 11. A stir has heen caused in l niversity circles at Camhridge hy the proposal t„ prohibit students using motor vehicles. Several members of the Senate have memorialised the Senate Conned ureiim the prompt application ol the lain, decently a Proctorial Committee reported on the same subject and recommended that the undergraduates not lie allowed to use ears before midday or later than S.dO in the evening 1 during the winter and ten ill the summer, giving, among other reasons, that a few undergraduates use thenears and cycles in driving undesirable young women into the country. Only !i few behaved hadlv, while others hoha veil foolishly. Other reports call attention to the number of accidents in which students

figured. TOBACCO PRICES CO UP. - PARIS, .May 11. As the. result of the Caillaux budget the price of the cheapest tobacco has been increased forty per cent while other brands of pipe tobacco and mg' nrettes have gone up twenty-live per cent. Cigar prices are unchanged. Immediately there was a rush of smokers to secure supplies as the high prices come into force on Sntuiday, hut the storekeepers retaliated by declaring that their stocks were cleared

SIR RIDER HAWARD DEAD. ■LONDON*. .May 11. Obituary—Sir 11. Rider Haggard the novelist.

[Sir 11. Rider Haggard is about OS years of age, bis homo being Ditebingham House, Norfolk. He spent his early life as a Government official in South Africa; leapt into fame with “King Solomon’s Mines (188 G), and since then lias produced about thirty romantic novels, the last being “Finished.” He is an authority on all rural subjects. He was knighted in

lf)| o “When the World Shook” was published in 101!). and “The Ancient Allan” in 1020.|

EX PFHIM EXT A D DKFF SIIIPM EXT. LONDON. May 11. The first cargo ol Australian chilled meat. constituting 71 quarters of beef, was placed at Smithliehl and received i on~i'h raid.- attention. The Hade i-, impressed by the condition, which is excellent. not wit b'tandiug its sixty-live days' passage. I In- only criticism is the dullness of crops which is considered due to the length of the vovage. The colisigntneiil. although ex fieri i neti Ia I. sold readtli. at prices ahoul equal to South Urban chilled. MISTER GH-1.10A.X. LONDON. Mat 11. The “Daily Mail” slate- that Gilligan was the guest of the Sussex ( Ink and emphatically described the eighlPall over as the rnllenest thing ever invented. The entire team was opposed thereto. If the Australians wanted it they should have it. hut he did not see why an English team should be compelled to submit to the strain. SOVIET PAPER'S OBSCENE ARTICLE.

{Deceived this: day at 11. -3 a.m.) LONDON. May 11. The Dost master-Geueral has decided Ito prevent the Soviet newspaper “Dravada” from circulation in Brittain. lie ordered the s-izure of copies containing blasphemous and obscene articles on the Birth ol Chri-t. SOVIET'S AIMS. I! IG A . M-iy 11. M. Stalin, addressing the Communists, declared the Soviet aimed at the penetration of Trade Guinns in < apitalisi countries until l.hov were suHieiently impregnated by Communism to carry out a revolution. WHEAT BRICES M ANI DELATION WASHINGTON, May LI. Mr Jardine. Secretary ol Agriculture. has announced that there has been wrongful maiiuipuhit ion ol the wheat market, hut ilefini silence upon which to base convictions lias not so far been uncovered. An invest ignition would clearly show that (he w ide ’ fillet net ions wen- due pi imarilv to heavy trading, limited In a , lumber of professional speculators. Likewise, their operations were laeilitu ied by large public participation after the material advances occurred in January. Mr Jardine de-ired to develop a method whereby a rep-el i i ion ol erratic price changes would he obviated.