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Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1925, Page 2

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lU3TKALIAN AND N.Z. CABLB ASSOCIATION. SOMK DISCLOSrUKS. ! XI) \A X VKKKOVSmP. LONDON, •Imic I. Some disclosures nnd poignant passagos arc contained in Lord Cur/.on's “British (Jovoniincnt in India. " jus! published by Cassells. 1 Lord Cur/.on in discussing Lord Kitchener's supreme uifibit ion t r» becomo Viceroy, says:-—Lord Morlev refused on the grounds of politital e\p-dieucy to him t lie because he was a soldier. Klsewbore it is mentioned that Lord Roscborry wiNhod Lord Cromer to he viceroy, hut tlu* latter declined live years exile in this connection. Lord Curzon refers to the sacrifices , Viceroys make. Many lost their wives as the result of the dimate, jroiuo on to say: Over tin* A ieoHejral throne lianas not only a canopy of broidered gold, but a mist of human tears.*’ wherein there is peihaps reference to Lord Curzon's loss of his own wile. Another pnsxngos snys : "1 think the lmijoriiy of those- who sulfeivd. thought tlte price worth while. hut let m\ eountrymeii realise that they paid it and rememhe-r that the inundation stones of the Kmpire- which they vaunt so loudly have not merely been laid in pride and glory, hut have been cemented with the hearts blood ol stricken men and women. Kqually. would I say to the Ministry who sit tn state in Downing Street, oliieiuls who rule and over rule from White Hall, and legislators ai Westminister who • m - most ready with criticism and most glib with ivn-ure. that they mi-dit derive profitable lessons D’o-.n hi-Torv and learn that the Cov.-rn-meiit of India is not a pastime, hut ;iu ordeal, and as often a- pain.” PHI NIT. OF WALKS. CAI’KTOWN. June 2. T',„. Prince of Wales spent a busy day at Ladysmith. He examined 1h? sc-ige positions and battle-fields where Boer and Brifon fought twenty-five

years ago. The Prime also visited the Sptonkop battlefield.

\ BOV MI'HDFHFH. LONDON". June 3

Tin- Jury returned a verdict that Jolferv willfully murdered the girl An-

nelt. I (leorgo .lelfrey. a hoy, was elfarged at Hu- Juvenile Court i.n May 12th with N the murder of a girl. Joint Annett. The .--*s evidence sltow'ei I that the girl’s skull had been fractured, there being fourteen wounds cm the head and neck., which were .supposed to have been caused by a pen-knife. Tlte boy admitted the crime.]

NANSEN’S FL'IOHT. BKHFTX, -Tune 3

Walti r Bruns, who is organising Nansen’- expedition to the North Pole announces tin t a huge Zeppelin is be-

ing built at S-huttolag. In order to avoid the summer fogs the airship will leave a base at Murmansk in April or May. Hying over Franz Josef Land to the Dole and afterwards over an ■>* unexplored tqtnt known as “White Spot.” The Zeppelin w ill have a speed of 120 kilometres ter hour and will carrv engine fuel for a hundred hours Might.

TWO KN-MINISTEBS SHOT. •SOFIA. June 2. Wancff and ilorell, ex-members of Sianihoulisky's Cabinet, were shot dead while attempting to escape from prison where they line! been 'cmlined for the l:>t two years. Ml! BALDWIN’S APPEAL. I ON DON .Juno 1. An audieiiee ot .‘i(t.()”0 listened to a speech h\ All- Ihildin. in a victory i-allv at Welheek Aiihe.v in which lie aiinouneed his iiiteitticin to appoint a permanent Food Council to carry out the reeontniemlal ion of the I'nod Prices ('ommission. The Prime Minister appealed for an all-round increase of ltl per eent in industrial effeioney. lie expressed incliH'ereneo towards Conservative critics who complained that he had insutlieienlly denottnet-d liis opponents, and deelared that lie had no intention to waste lime- denouncing a movement like .-socialism, lusti-ad. lie was going to attack the evils which produced them. Air Baldwin pointed out that his appeals for an industrial trace had resulted in m?ti on both sides sitting d,own together and facing realities as they never had done heiore. He concluded by inviting employers to scrap old met hods, and seek to covet a more intimate relationship with the workers; to seek new brains and new ideas, wherever they existed, and to take their employees more into consultation regarding routine manage inenl.

OBSERVATION OF GIBES. LONDON, dime -L Speaking at the Education Conleron,v Miss llaigli. Headmistress of the 1 lighgate Girls School, said she asked a- class which problems were exercising their minds. The answers were: Firstly: Is there an end of space. Secondly: People spend thior live) trying to he good, but they do not s.a'iii to he very happy. 'I here doenut seem to he much fun in it. Thirdly: Why. with so much unemloymont. do people lament the fall in the birth rate. IT id PINO ELECTION'S. INDEPENDENCE FAVOURED. MANILLA, .Tune L Practically complete returns lor tha genera 1 election show that the fonsoliduo or Immediate Independence Bart*, retains control of the House, and tho Senate bv a , onsiderable majority. The voting was carried out peacefully.