MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1925, Page 1

MISELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[Australia A X.Z. Cable Association.j CONDON, Aug. L”). It is olfii hilly stated that the Oovernment have decided i;i resilllle full official diplomatic relations with Mexico. the outstanding dilferem es having heeii sa i isfaetori ly settled. The present Comul-t o-nera i. Mr Nornian King. V. ill lie Charge d' Affairs, pending tiic ap.iiutmeiit of a minister. The .lapauese Nisimura has rd.anilrmi'd liis attempt to swim the Knglish channel from Dover after two hours. The city of Crewe is inviting the Mayor.- of British cities to raise £.lo.lllltt to buy the Spaldinger lustitute. Sir .lanes Allen ha- been ileputed in enlist the sympathy of Iho Lord Mayor of London. The Fitzrov .Memoirs state that the late Mr Massey was a type not altogether common among Colonial statesmen. the possession of frankness and dignify of address setting off bis ipiiet ’competent manner. Three air force officers were killed and one was injured hv a collision of two aeroplanes near Cambridge. Flying Ollie r liiiilin and 'Pilot officer- do Holieek and Peck were killed while engaged in lighting manoeuvres. They were living aT a thousand feel altitude' when they collided, and lell headlong. One machine was ascending steeplv. and struck the second beneath the wing, and immediately it nose dived. The fee mil plane upper rhd io recover, and it planed towards the earth, hut suddenlv il crumpled up. Ceorge Eliot, the former internatimial Association footballei, of M iddloshorough who was the driver of a car causing a fatalitv. has h"on atrested on a charge of man-lughter. TTe was admitted to hail. WATTS AAY .August ‘JO. A mixed Pole-Soviet Commission hareached an agreement for the ment. of the frontier troubles. This includes the exchanging of arrested soldiers and police, the payment of compensation and damages, and a mutual undertaking, to eo-operaTo m the prevention of I lift her conflicts. PARIS. August JO. Tie • ,! ice were busy this evening in frustrating Communist efforts, to form prore-shins in various pan- »i the (■•apilal. as n detnonslral cm agam-t the pc |i-h execution "f Communists. There were one hundred and forty persons arrested, twelve of whom were detained in custody. BADTTDAO. August JO. Twenty-three shops and J 1 houses were destroyed hy a fire. Another big lire in Basrah on Thursday' night did damage estimated at fifty thousand sterling. F.rRXOS AIRES. Angn.-t JO. London reporis to the effort .that the Prince ot Wale- has requested the King’s permission for a week s v-u tc. New Yolk have been plibli-ned liore to-day. They are given an oflieial denial liv the Prince and his suite'. The Prince devoted to-day to the Bn-ti-h community and its institutions being accorded a tremendous reception everywhere. •He visited a mwi school erected hy the Scottish community. and saw a memorial tablet of Aberdeen granite bearing the names of 547 Scots, of whom 122 were killed in she war. Last night the Prince was tendered a reception by the American colony.