MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1926, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association." 1 DEATH AT SEA. SUVA, Afay 21. Obituary—At sea on steamer “Ruapehu” Thomas Edward Fell, Coloni. Secretary of Fiji. FEMALES ADDRESS. COPENHAGEN, Alay 21. Alarried and unmarried women will soon be indistinguishable by address in Denmark, as both will he addressed by a. single prefix, equivalent to the English “ Airs.” Feminists have been agitating for this reform for years, in order to place them in the same position as men, whose title is unchanged. MAN SWALLOWS RADIUM. PARIS, Alay 21. A hospital patient while undergoing radium treatment in his sleep broke a tube containing radium held in his mouth, and a speck of radium, valued at £350, slipped down his throat. Doctors followed its course with a radioscope down the gullet and into the stomach. The patient suffered no ill effects. FREE SHAVES TN PARIS. PARIS, Alay 21. The barbers’ strike is still in progress, and presents the unusual feature of reducing, rather than increasing the cost of living. The assistants in order to press their demands for eight hour day and an annual holiday on full pay, resorted to the cafes and hotels where they posted up notices to the effect that shaves and haircuts were free. There was an extraordinary rush whereupon many of the employers signed a promise of improved conditions. Others say that free shaves cannot be continued sufficiently long to do any real harm to the business. CHINESE LOOT AITSSTON. PEKIN, Alay 21. The American Presbyterian Alission at Kachen, Hainan, on May 13th was entered and looted by an anti-Christian mob, who considerably damaged the mission property. ROTARIANS IN PACIFIC. HONOLULU, Alay 21. Rotarinns from three sides of the Pacific have arrived here for a conference next week. There are sixty-five Australians and New Zealanders erf whom twenty-nine are active delegates. Local Rotarinns met the visitors off the port and decorated them with leis. 'A banquet will ho tendered them on Monday in the Afona Hotel, after which the visitors ' will tour the islands. The President, Afr Ernest Hill, said tho conference should accomplish much, being centred where the world’s attention was now focussed.

ABDEL TvRIAI CAPTURED. TANGIER., May 22. The French claim they have captured Abdel Krim and his family at Tarquist. TO ENFORCE PROHIBITION. WASHINGTON, Alav 22. The creation of an army of 10,000 dry agents, through the enlisting of the State, County and Municipal Officers with a remuneration of one dollar annually into the Federal Prohibition services was authorised by President Coolidgo yesterday. This has aroused hitter opposition in the Senate, where it was characterised as the most revolutionary order ever issued from White House in pence time. Senator Edwards (Democrat) who urged the National Referendum, declared: “ The public were bent on ending prohibition.” Prohibition officers are not prepared to announce the extent to which they will avail themselves of tho. authority which would almost quadruple the strength of the present enforcement army. AAIERTCAN FIT;AT VERSION. LONDON, Alay 22. The “Daily Express” prints a stinging criticism of tho film “The Big Parade,” setting out “How America won. the War.” which wns screened in London to-night. The “Express” says: “The film suggests by direct inference, and thinly veiled innuendo., that the AVar began when the American troops arrived, after which, of course-, any further German resistance was impossible. It is impossible to take all ibis portentous nonsense seriously, but there is n serious side, because of the reasonable prospect that this sensation propaganda may bo seen by millions of people from whom the official British films of A"pres and Zeobrtigge were withheld.” DIVORCE REHEAR TNO. LONDON, May 22. Colonel Ralph Sncyd, whose first decree was annulled through the intervention. of the King’s Proctor on the grounds of eondoalution, which Sneyd denied, saying that his wife trapped him into returning to her, was granted a decree to-day, after a rehearing of the case, which lasted a week. ECHO OF LINCOLN MURDER. LONDON, Alay 21. “The only doubt in my mind is as to whether I should not order penal servitude for life,” said AH Justice Roche, in sentencing lan Alaxwell to fourteen years’ imprisonment for buralary, arising out of a crime committed in company with John Lincoln, wlui has since been hanged, as cabled in December last. There was a sensation early in the proceedings to-dav when Stewart pleaded guilty and then reeled and fell in the dock like a log, but was medically revived, and declared to be fit to stand his trifal.

Edward Richards was found murdered in his house at Trowdbridge, on Christmas Day. Richards disturbed burglars as they were leaving the house and was shot. Bombardier John Lincoln and Bombadier Maxwell and Stewart were arrested and charged with the crime. Stewart has since been hanged. j