MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1926, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

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SALVATION ARMY APPEAL. ■LONDON. March 9. Then.' was a great demonstration at the Albert Hall to signalise the comI plction of the world appeal for the Salvation Army's Missionary Campaign. £12.(11)0 handed over from Australia will he utilised in building Indian hospitals at Warathi and T'elgu, and three halls in China, and the N.‘W Zealand £.‘>.(loo will he divided in bindings in the Bermudas and Colon. The King has given £2-> to a fund for spiritual ministration. THIEPVAL EXPLOSION. LON DON. Ala E h 0. ft is learned that the explosion at Thicpvnl. Fjmiho, not ns serious as report -d. Chiefly it was the headstones that were damaged and arc being repaired immediately. The bodies were scarcely disturbed. M. BRIAN!) ACCEPTS PREMIERSHIP. PARIS. March 9. M. Bria.nl lias accepted the Pro-mior.-l) ip. LONDON WOOL SAIJKS. LONDON, March 9. The wool sales have opened, prices being mostly unchanged. Slipes were rather easier. COST OF STRIKE TO BRITISH SHIPS. LONDON. March 9. In the House of Commons Sir ATOII asked what loss had been caused British shipping Muring the recent strike in Australia through the transfer of freight to foreign bottoms: also whether it was intended to take action against the organisers here. Sir Cunliffe-Lister (President of th>‘ Board of Trade) replied that the 10.-,s could not he estimated. It was not intended to take action "gains' the organisers. WIRELESS AND MUSIC. LONDON, March 9. T Tin Music Publishers’ Association of London has decided to present an ultimatum to the British Broadcasting Coy., stating that unless the company agrees to royalties on popular music, which has been the subject of a. long discussion, they will withdraw their permission to broadcast their copy-right numbers immediately. Tt is stated this will mean the immediate exclusion of all dance music from wireless programmes. The •publishers say t’h‘ey are not asking a. higher fee; they even agreed to ae'jcpt lower fees than last year, but could not afford to agree to the Company's proposed rates. They declared the broadcasting reduced t'. life of popular songs to weeks. AMUNDSEN'S AIRSHIP. MOST EFFICIENTLY EQUIPPED (Received this day at 11.2.3 a.mA LONDON. March 9. from a wireless viewpoint Captain Amundsen's airship, is the most efficiently equipped era It ever Used ill the air. Its transmitting apparatus will enable tile commander to comnuiiiicate with land and ships up to one thousand miles. The airship will, therefore, never lose contact with civilisation. A .special direction finding device has I, ceil installed to assist navigation and it is also sufficiently sensitive to enable the navigators to accurately determine their course even when over the pole itself where ord-.il.iary eompnsJcs are valueless, all direction being due south. The direction finder will enable any station to he picked up by the huge loops erected round the envelope of the airship. ROME, March 9. The trials of Captain Amundsen's dirigible have been satisfactory. A new feature is a tethering pole which is lowered from the airship’s nose from which it is adjusted. OVERCOME BY CHEESE KUAIES LONDON, March 9. Fumes from the cargo of New Zealand cheese overcame two officers of the steamer Suffolk when the vessel was docked at Liverpool. T hey entered the hold to investigate the odour which the stevedores reported. When the officers failed to return a search party found them unconscious and thev wore taken to hospital.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT FUJ.LY INFORMED. LONDON, -March 9. Il i„ learnt that Sir Austen Chamberlain is keeping the Government fully informed of the proceedings at Geneva. According to Sir Austen’s despatches Sunday’s meetings did much to remove the German apprehension in regard to her position with the League. It is denied the German application for admission was shelved. On the contrary the procedure for her admission is going on smoothly. WAR TRAGEDY RECALLED. INNOCENT MAN SHOT. PARIS, March 9. There was ,a moving ceremony at the rehabilitation of an innocent man ivho was shot during the war at Alaubengp. Strimmelle. a blacksmith, on 7th September, 1911. was accused of espionage by using homing pigeons and was shot out of hand at the loot of the ramparts at Maubenge. Local opinion was immediately convinced that there had been a miscarriage ol military justice. Finally the League of rhe Rights of Men took up the ease and the courts proclaimed the blacksmith's innocence.

To-da.v there was a great gathering at the. grave of the dead man. Speeches paid a tribute to his honour and sympathised with his widow.

Finally, the onlookers came to t! grave and each one took an oath to d their best to prevent war in future.

THE SPANISH CAMPAIGN. TANGIER. March 9. After six days heavy lighting the Spanish forces have taken up a position on Ainzitoun from which the Rills shelled Totiian hut found the guns withdrawn. ALLEGED FORGERY. LONDON. March 9. An echo of the mysterious disappearance of Mrs Re van in 1922 was heard in the Probate Court on the application of the Prudential Insurance Coy. for a. revocation of the letters of administration granted Mrs Sevan's solicitor in 1922. Counsel alleged that the secretarv of the Girls’ Friendly Soeietv at Exeter where the girl, giving the name Finch, arrived the day Airs Bevan, was supposed to he drowned. She has been identified as Finch. The photograph is the same as Mis Bevan. The latter applied tor a passport to South Africa. The Judge, in ordering the application to stand mer exresscd the opinion that the questions involved would he set at rest when the presumed deceased aime from New Zealand. If she arrives m custody she will have to await hei trial. ....