MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1925, Page 3

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[Australia it N.Z. Cable Association.J EX-NAVAL MAX’S ADVENTURE. TO SETTLE IN NEW ZEAI.AND. i (Received this day at 10.25 a.m.) I LONDON. Aug. 23. All ex-naval man, William I'nitt. I intends to sail from Plymouth on | 30th. September for New Zealand in i a nine ton yawl rigged boat, accom- ] puttied only by bis fifteen year dnugh- | ter Dora, who lie says, can handle the craft as well as lie can. The voyage will he made via Capetown, and is expected to take four months. His wife and soil are' going out by a mail , steamer, and the family will settle iu New Zealand. Unitt was retired from , the navy last year after 30 years’ scr- v vice. He was a member of the landing | party at the Dardanelles. t CHANaEL SWIMMING. 1 LONDON, Aug. 23. f <. Rough seas have held up Kreyberg’s t second attempt to swim tin* Channel. i AMMUNITION SHIPS ROM RED. MADRID, Aug. 23. Spanish aeroplanes bombed Abdel .Krim’s ammunition ships at Allniccmns and destroyed several. ( BOI.SHEVISTS RECALLED. ' LONDON. Aug. 23. 1 The Russian textile delegation visit- t j M g Manchester has been suddenly re- t called to Moscow without having plac- ( ed any contracts. DECEIVED AND ROBBED. PEKING, Aug. 23. A large crowd of strikers attacked the headquarters of the Shanghai Gen- t oral Labourers’ Association m the f Chinese city with sticks, knives and *. other weapons. Two members of the , Association are reported to have In'cn killed whilst numbers of both sides were wounded. The strikers complained that they had been deceived and I robbed. 1 INTERNATIONAb LABOUR CONGRESS. , PARIS, Aug. 23. One thousand delegates, representing thirty nations, are attending the second' post-war International LabourSocialist Congress at Marseilles. Ine principle subjects on the agenda paper . are the attitude of the International , towards the Colonial question, disarma- . rnent. and the League of Nations relation with the second and third I lie International’s Executive decided to transfer the Secretariat to Switzerland to), enable M. Adler (Austria) to continue the secretaryship. Mr Arthur Henderson, in the Presidential address, said the International spoke the mime of seven million organised workers. Propaganda of the affiliated parties must be conducted with regard to the possibility, and even the probability, that national leaders may be responsible ministers. Ihe Geneva Proctocol must remain the Raiding principle of international action. me •hole strength of the Labour movement, nationally and internationally organised, must he used to fight capitalism, whose grip had tightened since tho uni. poiJTlt'W. DELHI. Aug. 2’3. \ prominent Swarajist, Patel, been elected as Chairman of tho „AH India Assembly at Bombay. Considerable political importance and speculation s attached to the election, as it will bring Patel into close proximity ">th * Viceroy. Up to the present the Swarajists’ nominees have been dcleated in Bengal, Madras, Punjab and the ImtJd Provinces Legislatures, but they luive succeeded in Bombay and the