MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1926, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] RIFF OFFENSIVE. PARIS, May 7. France and Spain arc preparing an immediate Riff offensive. THE KINO’S PRIVILEGE. LONDON. .May 7. Sir Robert Houston (cabled April 110) having died without an heir, the enjoyment of iiis property for a year and a. day is declared to he the privilege of the King, by Jersey assize heritage, the oldest land court in the world. The King is Seigneur of the Ficr du Roi, in which Houston’s Jersey property is scheduled. A PATHETIC STORY. •LONDON, May 7. A pathetic divorce story was revealed in the ease of Richard "Wright, who was blinded by an enemy bomb in the trenches in France in July, 1915. Ho was granted a decree nisi and £IOOO sterling damages. The parties were married in 1910. so the petitioner never saw his wife and two children. The wife and correspondent, who was manager of a garage, went to New Zealand. , A JAPANESE ORDER. TOKJO, May 0. With a view of preventing the spreading of Radicalism, the Educational Department has decided to instruct technical M-liools and college authorities to forbid students (1) to read hooks propounding Socialistic theories; (2) to make speeches inculcating dangerous thoughts; (3) to form organisations for study of extremist principles. School authorities report they consider instructions arc ill-advised and not feasible of application.

COLOUR BAR IN AFRICA. CAPETOWN. May 7. A joint sitting of both Houses commences to-day to discuss the Colour Par Hill. The most weighty and most representative protests ever, made in this country have been addressed to the Premier in the shape of memorandum signed by the Archbishop, bishops, heads ol all European <•'.lurches, native welfare organisations, a large number of missionaries, prominent Europeans and native chiefs. The signatories protest against the bill not on political, hut on moral grounds, holding it is wrong that any man should be debarred by law from doing any kind of work for which he is qualified. so long as such work is legitimate, and especially that he should he so prohibited merely on the ground ul colour. APPLES FOR SHIPMENT. HOBART. May S. Ihree steamers are in port loading 2(»), (MM) (Uses i;l apples for the London market hut unless the position in Britain improves no further shipments are likely. Sir Henry Jones, one of the principal shippers, is urging the Imperial and Commonwealth Governments to take over all Australian apples in London, and those being despatched at the cost of production and distribute as part of • tin' Government's lood scheme, as once they became the property of the Government. they could he handled by volunteer labour. Otherwise they would stagnate in the ships ami docks.