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Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1925, Page 3

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AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CAULS ASSOCIATION. CI.YDERANIC EVICTIONS RESt’MF.I) LONDON, May 11. Alter a respite lor three months evictions on ( lydebnnk were resumed this morning, the sheriff's ofheer- carrying out iour evictions expedition-ly. without demonstration. A large loree cl police had nothing to do. In view of the increases in rent by the factors com erned having been adjudged legal the factors declare the evict ions truce has not been broken.

( o:\I.MC.NIYT I’ROEERTY DESTROY FI). LONDON. May If. I Ik- premises of the Glasgow Communist party were raided and much damaged by a parly who besmeared documents and publication.-, with red ink. they also destroyed a huge Communist banner In soaking it in black ink. CHINESE TOK 10 EMRASSY. PEKIN. .May If. Official.-. Cabinet to-day decided to I rai-r the Legation at Tokio to an Embassy. ■M IXERF’ WAGE R KDFCTIOX. LONDON, May 11. While the owners and miners were conferring in connection with the means ol reviving the coal industry wherein unemployment is increasing weekly, there is a growing disposition among the men tii bargain separately and one thousand miners at I’egswood Colliery, Northumberland, have now accepted a 111 l per cent wages reduction, which will permit the colliery to reopen on Monday. F • .A. FLEET VISIT. LONDON. Mar 1.1

Tin- "Daily Telegraph” commenting on l lie welcome av ailing the American I'lent in Australia and New Zealand so vs; "Rritain Inis been eompi lied o Ilinii.iis-naokißill/. inthcETA polled Lo limit the representation of her Navy in the Eaeilie to a proporI *i'i amounting, momentarily, almost to evaeualion, hut war between the OTeui Powers eoiu-erned in the Eaeilie is virtually a physical impossibility. -1 inau-o’-war Inis not \'et been designed which can steam the enormous distances separating; the Pacific nations, and then lie in a condition to light. A continuance of this state of affairs is assured !>y the clauses ol the Washingten Treaty regulating jlm establishment of new bases. Even if physical harriers did noL exist, however, what, purpose would war between any Eaeilie state achieve:- There is no greater folly than to -0, -a!, of an inevitable war ill the Eaeilie.

ITALIAN SENSATION. ROME. May lA. A man named Nivgco. a neasnnt liv;ng apart from his wife, met her on a. country mad. near Gallipoli, in rom.pany wit ii three men, who accompanied her to protect her from bandits. Nuz/.o was seized with fury, and he slug his wife (had. The throe men tried to seize him. hut Nuzzo shot each of them in turn. Then he escaped, lie is being pursued. ROME. May Id. A man named Nu>v:n shot himself when carahinicrs surrounded him.. Nuzzo had carried off his wife with violence fri lit her father's home. The marriage was imbapuv, owing to his violent ehnnu ter. lie recently made his wife promise to kill her father. In order to avoid this (run", the wife left home v ith her children, .nul lock refuge with her own family. EKIMA DONNAS S'.M’A Eli LE. VIENNA, May Id. .Madam Olspewska. the priimi donna, was dismissed from, the Slate Opera Mouse as the result of the following inr blent : Muring a pcrl'onnanee of "Valkyrie.” when, after complaining from the stage of noise of the talking in the wings, she spat at .Madam .leritza, but actually hit another singer. Roth .Madam Olszewska and .Madam .Jeritza are due to appear in ('event Garden, Louden, at an early date. RIG SI 11 ERF I I.DI NG CONTRACT. LONDON. May Id. As the result of prolonged negotiations. a iwo million sterling contract for eight 1-,(it'll to I f.tlt)') tc n siiips for the Rlue Star Line will he kept in Rritain, the shipowners giving a substantial preference over foreign tenders. The 111 ilixh shipbuilders will, however, undertake the work at a considerable loss, in older to prevent extension of unemployment.

A STATEE AILTILATED. PARIS. Alay lA. The famous sculptor Rodin’s half-toil statue, representing a man of the earliest ages, was found mutilated in the gardens .surrounding the Rodin museum. The feet and left arm were sawn oil' during the night. LI! IT IS 11 El LAI INIU'STRY. .Rar.fived this day at ILIA a.in.} LONDON, Alay IA.

11l the linos, s of Lords, Lord Burnham suggested that public attention throughout the Empire should lie drawn to the scandal of the exclusion of British films from a majority ol cinemas ol the Empire. Lord Reel, replying, said that twen-ty-live per cent ol the films exhibited in Britain in IDLI were British, whereas in lII2A only ten per cent were British. they had dwindled to three per cent in IP2A. About twenty firms were engaged in the film industry in Britain in 1112:1, hut this was reduced to live at the present. The producers had to meet tremendous cniepeUtiou from the Cnited States, and it was difficult to see how anything short ol prohibition of Amerincn films could give an opportunity to the British film industry, hut he felt the public was not inclined at present to support stiong action against American compel ii ie i.