MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 October 1925, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

fAustralia A N.Z. Cable Association.] SLY'-G HOGGING CHARGE. MA.STKRTON. Oct. 23. At tbe Magistrate’s Court to-day, Alexander Gay, boardingbou.se proprietor, was lined twenty-five pounds tor keeping liquor "or sale in a noli ease area. Arthur Games, a lodger ■a the bouse v.as lined a similar amount of a ( barge of selling. The evidence for the prosecution was that the puli'e, after thoroughly searching Gay's house, discovered that the two decorative mouldings under a mantelshelf in the bedroom were loose, and by the insertion of a hatpin in a -.mall hole a spring was released and the moulding sprung up, disclosing a large cavity. In one of these was secreted six bottles of whisky.

THE .FLOUR. C.VSK. WELLINGTON', Get. 23. I lie line of £3OO imposed upon Distributor.- Ltd. was reduced to £.30 in i In- ease of each of the constituent companies, by Justice Sim to-day, upon the application of .Mr SkcrreU. K.G., and Mr Myers, K.C.

PRISONERS SKXTEX( ED. WELLINGTON. October 23. At tin' Supreme Court this morning, the billowing prisoners were sentenced: Alexander Carter, guilty of carnal knowledge, two years’ probation and the cost of the prosecution to he paid wit bin nine montlis. I'rank Blackball!. gttiltv of breaking, entering and theft, six months’ Imprisonment. Joseph Charles Robertson, 7 charges of breaking, entering and theft, rogue and vagabond, having possession of a set of skeleton keys, two years’ hard labour, and ordered to he declared an habitual criminal. Jack Washington Suim-v, arson, was ordered nine months’ reformative detention. CORN SACK CASE. SYDNEY. October Si.

Justice James has been appointed by the (lovernmeiit Royal ('ominissioiier to inquire into the corn sacks ease, a i red 1:1 ilic Assemble as cabled toA I'STRALI AN MINERS. SYDNEY. Get. 21. Ilic Coal Miners’ Federal Council Conference decided in favour of linking tip with tin' Intermit iolial Minors’ Organisation of which Mr Frank I lodges, the Erifish Commoner. is president, with a view In seeming interna I iona I action should circumstances require it. HEED RE THE CAYE MAN. SAN FRANCISCO. Get. 22. Roy Chapman Andrews, the American Naturalist, now leading bis third expedition in the Gobi Desert. Mongolia. reports new discoveries of prehistoric animal life, indicating the existence of a coloured civilisation before the time of the cave man in Europe, lie also found forty petrified Dinosaur eggs which he estimates are probably ten millions years old.

THE EXAMPLE OK BRITAIN. vTsecoivod this day at 8.30 a.m.i LONDON. October 23. Viscount Grey, in a speech at Swansea. relcrriiig to the Locarno Conference, emphasii-'.ed the interest, that was manifested owing to Germany entering the comity ol Europe on equal terms. In a lew years Germany must play at least as important a part in European a (fairs as before the war. Viscount Grey declared lhal if war arose it would not lie on the question of frontiers, or nationality, lull on the great principle of arbitration for a peaceful set l.lemeut. If Britain followed tile Amcrnnii example til startling abide, from European affairs, it alone would sttlfiee to wreck the peace ol Europe. The only prospects for Eos-iaii credit re-led on Russian inoperating in a policy of peace. \ iscoimi Grey emphatically declar'd the new I real ies won Id prepa re i lie way lor a reiliicl ion ol armaments hv producing (I Sense of -1 I -111 1 1 y . •M It BALDWIN'S VIEWS, (Received this day at S.oQ a.in.) LONDON, October 23. Mr Bali I win speaking at the oyster least in < niche- ter said the will to peace had sprung up for the first time in Europe since the war. At the Lo eel'll" ('oitlereia e solid foumla I ion-: were hill'll up which, would hear any superstructure, lie believed the peace bin'll tip in Western Europe was an essential prelude to ultimate peace throughout Europe. The entry of Germany into the League of Nations "oiilil enormously enhance an.!, strengthen its power. BRITISH TAXATION. LONDON, October 23. Mr Win-lon Churchill foreshadowed the restoration of portion of the taxati':n taken oil in the budget if the ('om.mil lee. mv-ided over by Mr Baldwin did riot reap the Imped for harvest. NATIONALISTS AND PACT. (Received this day at 9.30 a.in.) LONDON, October 3. Berlin messages report Hie National-

I'-i/- at ;i Iti 1 1u of the Keielistaj; Korvi”ii Kola!ions ( onnnittoo declared tlio l.ncantn aerot iiu'itt failed to fulfil the (■ornia'i peopled assurances. 1 con- ‘ esdun.- toll t ar short of ant ioipations. In vicH- ol (doniauv’s sacrifices as a party they oonlil not accept tlio Pact.

a o\v tiicum:. MOSCOW. (htoher 93. Tlic newspaper ■' lzco>ti:i ’’ in the i'iiiii -i' ill ii tirade against (h<■ l.ocarno agreement. Miys it leaves Hritain a lltM'lsiiC* VOICC DU ;||| (| Udnl Milll'Vl'll " Im ri- '-lii' appears tinder the pseudonym "I ( o'.llicil u; the League of Nations. I lie *' Izveslia " adds: "Tile nonparticipation ui Imliii Mini the Homiii ions is most simiiiUnut ;is niiirkim; step in the decay ui' the Empire." (AMIXKT WITH XO TAIL. (Received tin’s day at 9.30 a.in.) LONDON'. Octolier 93. Mr Raldwin. in n speech at ('niches ter. referring in the Ministry, dcclar eil : " t)nr team is doing good work ! am j:■ ri-lv the skipper. The lean has tin mil. lint can hat light dnwi 1,1 tile eleventh man. Mr ( halnhei laii has returned from tiie miracle nr Lo 1 a ran t>. hieli represents nne nt the lies! '■eiitiirie' e\er made on a sticky wicket, Mr Churchill as the wicket-keeper can he relied on in catch every .sixpence." I’he hist reierenee is to .Mr Church'd s hint as to the possibility of reimpo.sing a portion of the reduced taxation. NAV \l. A i'l’Ol XT.M EXT. LONDON. October 93. \ ice-Admiral Webb, who commanded the wars!,ip Xew Zealand, has been appointed to lommnnd the Koval Xaval ('olle.ee at Greenwich. A TREASURE If TXT. I.OXHOX. Get. 99.

Fourteen million sterling worth of pirn to treasure. hidden in Cocos Island, is the object ol a new expedition organised by T.iont. Kealoy, who recently »;n engaged in explorin''- the Pacific aboard tile Saint (loorge. The treasure lias linen buried in Cocos Island for over a century. It is hidden in a thick jungle, covering the interior. Eight picked men of the party arrive in dannary. and stay for six months, combining scientific research with the treasure hunt.

Lieut. Kealcy proposes to utilise the latest scientific appliances. He believes tlie.se will successfully wrest tile romantic secret from the Cocos Lslaud. Ho also states lie litis received special information relating to the burying of doubloons, and bars of gold whieb were chiefly plunder from the Peruvian clmrces. stoleii during tbe Chilian M ar. Tin's was taken to Cocos Island by lii-nito. a notorious pirate ol ISIB, who was hanged before lie was able to see the treasure. A mail named Thompson was Benito's mate, and the bitter added to tbe treasure.

Lieut. Kcaley is taking a cinema camera to film tbe treasure bunt. Iliete have already been at least a score of expeditions to Cocos Island, including \ dmir.nl Palliscrs and Ear! Fitzgerald’s. the latter being ended by_ a landslide causing a dynamite explosion, which killed several of Lord Fitzgerald’s labourers.

A life-sized figure of the Virgin in pure gold is among the treasures.