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Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1925, Page 3

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[ "Ti*° Tiuks” Skkvsck.] DIAMOND S( I 1.1.5. LONDON, duly 2. Noleiu, the Australian, heat the Oxfordian Kent easily in the sixth heat of the diamond sculls. SIR .[OILS SALMON IPS ENGLISH ESTATE. LONDON, duly 2. The English estate of Sir .John Salinoinl, the New Zealander, has been sworn at 22,122. NIGHT BAKING. LONDON, duly 2. In the Commons Sir \Y. Joynson llicks said the Government would not ratify the League’s ('(invention to abolish night, baking. SHORT SKIRTS AND SILK STOCKINGS. LONDON, dune Id .Mr T. 0. Bcirne. a warehouseman from Brisbane, says that America’s trade is booming compared to that ol England, which is losing prestige as the centre of women’s fashions. Nottingham and .Manchester, when shorts skirts became f’a-hionable. were still producing cotton hosiery. The Americans foresaw that short skirts meant silk stockings, and prepared to satisfy the demand. Now they control the world hosiery market. They export to Franco more stockings than France makes. The Americans siill look to Bond Street for the smartest men’s wear.

Mr Bcirne considers that the gold standard by which Australia will lose, will handicap Britain's exports and help her imports. GEISHA Gllll. DIES. .MARRIED MAN’S MAD ACT. TDK 10. dune 1-1. Tokio iely is shocked at the attempted sf.Tcido at Lake Chuzenji on Sunday of the son of Baron Kitazuto. .Japan’s famous bacteriologist. The son, who is married travelled to Chuzenji with a Geisha girl. The pair tied themselves together and leaped into the lake, the Geisha girl drowning. The struggle released the man. who swam ashore and then cut his throat .The wound was not fatal. He held a high position in the Mitsui Bank, and he and his family are most prominent in Tokio social life. DR. MANXIX. LONDON', duly 2. The Cork Harbour Board have decided to present Archbishop Maimix with an address of welcome, which i. was intended by the Board to give him in B)21). had he visited Ireland then. LONDON, duly 2. The Irish •Truth.’’ a nationalist weekly paper, edited by Captain Henry Harrison, who was the late (diaries Stewart Parnell's private secretary, comments on Archbishop Mannix's visit to Ireland in a novel and satirical way. It reproduces a lull page photograph over the following caption: “Special picture of Dm Reverend Dr Alstnnix, President of Maynooth College, accomanied by two prominent members of the Catholic Hierarchy, hospitably showing Queen Alary over Maynooth College on the occasion of the last visit of the British Sovereign consort to Ireland.”

AUSTRIAN ALPINE DISASTER. VIENNA, Julv 2,

Seventeen climbers, belonging to different touring parties, lost their lives in a blizzard in the Upper Austrian Alps on Sunday. Some were frozen to death., while others lost the path, fell and were killed. AD V Eli VISI N( I S EXS AT lON. PARIS, July 2. A record-breaking luminous advertising sign has been arranged in the Eiffel Tower by using two hundred thousand electric lamps. The tower appears a gigantic torch. It darkens suddenly, and then comets start at various points, forming a motor ear advertisement a thousand lecL in size. The advertiser is paying a rent of 3.50,Olll) francs per year, plus a municipal lax of three hundred thousand francs.

VA I.FA BI,E STATUARY FUND. ROME. July -2. Seven Terracotta statuettes which M.ichael Angelo produced as models for life-size statues of the Prophets ami which were intended to decorate the dome of St. Peters in Rome, have been discovered in a lumber room at the Vatican. SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY. LONDON, July 3. Sir George Hunter. speaking at Wallseml on the successful trial trip of the steamer l’ort Hobart, (lescrilted the position of the shipbuilding industry at present as dreadful.

FRENCH BUDGET. PARIS, July :i. The Chamber adopted the Budget fixing the expenditure for 1112.1 at 33.103 million francs and revenue at 33,175 million francs. Mr Caillstux suffered two minor reverses in the course of the debate, firstly by the Chamber rejecting the tax on the turnover of foodstuffs and on the other, retailers recommending substitution ol the tax on sugar cocoa, coffee, tea. rice, end and meat ; secondly by the Chamber fixing the cost of foreigners’ identity tickets at two hundred francs, compared with fourteen at present. Ihe degate lasted all night and was sometimes heated, notably during a discussion oil the Cabinet proposal that Government should share the gross icceipts of certain financial corporations which was adopted.

LLOYD GEORGE ON BALDWIN, LONDON. July 3

Mr Lloyd George at a dinner tendered him hv the Eighty and the PJ2II Clubs, jointly, said Mr Baldwin’s cure for increasing peril was talk and tuxes. If the crisis were prolonged, the Government would be driven to seek relief from pledges and protection, and protection would collie like their night. The Liberals must be prepared for every emergency. BRITISH MINERS RAY. LONDON. July 2. The “Daily Telegraph’s" Labour correspondent says: “The Miners’ Federation is considering the proposals of the Mining Owners’ Association for a new wage agreement. They are framed on the basis of an income-sharing plan, but without wages being the first charge on income. Instead of on profits, wages will depend on the profits remaining after the payment of working costs, the colliery workmen taking 37 per cent., and the owners thirteen per cent., as the men object to an eight hours’ day. the coal owners are not raising the hours’ ques-

tion.” , , T - . It is understood the Miners Executive is not prepared to discuss the disappearance of the minimum wage. 1 LONDON. July 3. It- is stated on reliable authority that the coal owners’ proposals proridp for A reversion to tl'e eiglit-hpiirs*

I day, but if tlie miners will not agree, | they will extend the seven-hour day. The owners propose to sweep away ■ sw .y-k-ti tv,, "oneral minimum wage-, j .thirty-throe and ono-fhiMC jo.-E V-. ! on the randan! wages j The Minors' Lxc-mive have considI .-rod : lie propos.'d- and n gar i : Uom as j drastic and revolutionary in character. | Strong opposition is expressed to the I owners’ proposal lor each district to have its own minimum rates. TENDER BRICES. CAPETOWN. .July 3. An order for waterworks pipes for Capetown Municipality of nearly half a million Ims gone to linns in Germany and Czeeho-Slovakia. there being a saving of nearly forty thousand on the lowest British tender. A BURGLAR’S SCHOOL. PARTS, duly :s. Aioitssef, who a few years ago. was regarded as one of the cleverest burglars in Europe, found, when liberated, after serving a long term that, he was too old for the game, so he established a school for burglars in Paris, and underworld parents willingly paid large sums to have their children taught the tricks of the trade. Mnusset imparted a most systematic training. His own home was burgled every week by pupils practising. The police suspecting the school hurst in and found .Mousse! teaching a class bv diagrams on a blackguard. Everything looked’ innocent and the police were on the point of departing when, one removed the teacher’s spectacles and recognised M ousset. The authorities ordered the school to be closed. TROUBLE THREATENED. LONDON', duly The miners have decided to re-id the coal owners proposals.