MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1926, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australia it N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, January 22. The Australians, Percy Grainger and Will ...imloeli, claim to have perfected an apparatus whereby the -genuine tone of the piano can be captured on a gramophone record. WASHINGTON. January 23. The ITS.A. House of Representatives lias eliminated from the Navy Department’s Appropriation Rill nine million dollars for new aircraft construction. • ANGORA, January 23. Sir Robert Lindsay lias arrived In connection with the conversations regarding the Alosul (jucstion. BERLIN, January 23. The Reichstag unanimously decided iha t the Government should do it utmost: to insist that the evacuation of tile first occupation zone should be followed by a corresponding diminution of the occupying forces. SAN FRANCISCO, January 23. The Tahiti, from Wellington, arrived here to-day. HONOLULU, January 23. The Association of Hawaiian Pincaprde Cnnncrs announces that in 1025 (he total pack was f5.728.5P0 cases, which was unofficially valued at 35 million dollars. ROME. January 23. The Locarno Treaty has been ratified in the Italian Chamber, only two Communists voting against it. BRUSSELS. January 23. The Chamber by 124 to I. with four abstentions adopted a bill ratifying the Locarno agreements. WASHINGTON, January 22. The American negotiations with the Greek Debt Commission came to a sudden halt on Friday. Hon Mr Mellor - Secretary to the Treasury) announces tlmt one of the delegates will return to Athens immediately for a consultation with the Greek Government concerning the funding of fifteen million dollars, the amount of the Greek obligations. LONDON, January 23. The Central News Agency’s Malta correspondent reports that a sensation has been caned by the announcement Hint Sir Gerald Strickland (former Governor of New South Wales) lias joined the Mali esc Labour Party. He is thus in an anomalous position, being a Labourite in Malta and a Conservative member of the British House of Commons. POLISH COMMUNISTS. WARSAW, January 21. The Polish political police arrested several hundred Communists, alleged to be connected with the Communist organisations in Western Poland.