MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1925, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

LATEST CABLE NEWS

AUSTII.VJ.IAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION PRINCE OF AYALES. CAPKTOAYX, June 12. The Prince of Wales’s tour of Natal will he concluded at Vrybeid to-riiglu This morning he visited Newcastle, the great coal and iron centre «f Natal. PATRIOTIC EXHIBITION AUTHORITIES? fßeceived this day at 9 a.m.) LONDON. June 14. The certificates of honour issued to the exhibitors at Wembley for the 1924 Exhibition "ere printed ion foreign paper so the printer asked the authorities to withdraw the certificates and offered to reprint them on British paper at his own expense. GOOD.GROUND FOR BOLSHEVISM. (Received this day at 9.2 d i.m.j LONDON, June 14. The “Daily .Mail” discloses the secret document wherein Zinovieff declares that Bolshevism can only he kept aim by revolutionary activities abroad, in view of the setbacks in many lands. He is of the opinion that Britain is the most promising field for intrigue and advises his followers to concentrate on Britain. ITALY DEMANDS INDEMNITY. ROAIK, June 11. Italy is demanding an indemnity ot seven thousand sterling; also an apology from Afghanistan in emmectioi with the execution at Kabul of tin Italian, l’iperno, for the alleged kil ling of an Afghan soldier.

SCRAP AA'ITH POLICE. (Received tms dav at- 9.2 d a.m ' NEW YORK, June 11. A battle between the police and a gang of desperadoes in Chicago resulted in the fatal shooting of two, a police sergeant and John Gentian, one of the attackers. The trouble arose in connection with the recent assassination of Gennas’ brother. COMMUNIST .ITNANCE. ■LONDON. Ju'pe 11. S; caking at Chatwortli, the- .Home Secretary (Sir AY. Joynson-llieks) expressed his definite conviction that the Moscow Government was financing Hie British Communist movement. He appealed to Trade Cnionists to resist this hideous grub which was eating into tho heart of oak.

air disasters. PARIS. June 14

\u army aeroplane caught- fire in mid-air at Ist res and the pilot was incinerated. Another bomber met with ti similar mishap at .Bourges but landed safely. Five occupants were terribly burnt.

PRINCE OF AYALES. CAPETOWN. June 11. The Prince of AYales motoring from Dundee, visited scenes ol the earlier battles in the South African war. He was given an enthusiastic reception at. various townships. BULGARIAN TRIALS. SOFIA. 'June 14. A court martial ordered the public execution of Lieut. Colonel Aliltenoif and three other anarchists, ineludiii women found guilty of participating in a secret organisation furnishing arms to conspirators. A captain, who was similarly sentenced, committed suicide on tho point.ol arrest. These .condemned were ordered to pay conjointl) twelve millions leva damages. I lieMinister for AYar informed the Chamber that over three thousand were in prisons awaiting court maitial. A SUICIDE. PARIS. June 11. Mary Crompton, thirty-six, an American who suffered from neurasthenia, last week ordered her own coffin. East night after driving in a taxicab lor several hours, she ordered the driver to go to the Bois Be Boulogne. The chauffeur there heard shots am found the woman dead. She had shot herself ill the breast several times. A letter in her pocket asked her relatives in Chicago to pay for the funeral, giving the undertaker’s address. THE POLICE POWERLESS. (Received this day at 9 a.m.) OTTAAVA. June 11.

Thirteen thousand striking miners of the British Empire Steel Corporation are in complete control throughout the colliery districts at Cape Breton. 'I lie strike’ was declared six weeks ago and it, increased daily in bitterness until on Thursday, in order to prevent themselves being overpowered, the police fired on a mob, killing one and wounding several miners. Since then the poHre have been powerless and the looting and incendiarism have continued. A strong military lone is being concentrated in the disturbed area. EMPIRE POLICY. CONSERVATIVES AND LABOUR AGREE.

LONDON, June It. The “ Observer,” editorially, commends the Colonial Office changes and the votes of the Labour members lor preference, as indicating the awakening of a new spirit of Empire. It suggests, if the unionists and the rising Torres of Labour are in agreement that Imperial policy is a national question, WO my hope to overtake the arrears of the organisation and development which stand between Britain and economic recovery. MR GARVIN’S POINT. LONDON. June lb Mi- Garvin, in a lengthy article on the proposed Pm-t says that nothing on earth would induce British democracy to mobilise unless the previous consultation bad been adequate and the action of France understood and approved by the decisive weight <d British public opinion. Me hope our friends across the Channel will never forger, this condition. NEGRO BREAKS RECORD. NEM’ YORK. June 13.

De Hart Hubbard, of the University of Michigan. and a negro athlete, smashed ihe world’s record tor the urnning broad jump by four and eleven sixteenths at the National Collegiate Championship meeting, be jumping _-3 feet 105 inches