MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1926, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Assoc .ation. EMPIRE PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION. LONDON, Aug. 8. The Empire Parliamentary Association delegates have departed on a visit to Australia. Hon Amerv was amongst the party of Parliamentarians anil others who farewelled the voyagers. TROTSKY LEADS REVOLT. LONDON, Aug. 8. According to messages from Copenhagen, il is stated Trotsky is leading tho Leningrad revolt. ATTACK ON I’ANGELOS. LONDON, Aug. 8. It is reported from Athens that an attempt lias been made to assassinate the Dictator, Pnngalos, while lunching at a hotel on the Island of Spetsni. Attendants overpowered the assailant, who proved to be an insane merchant. LONDON CH URCHES. [Reuter Telegrams.] (Received this day at 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, August 8.

'I hey should gain an added dignity and beauty' if re-erected on some heaven-kissing bill at Canberra, Wellington. Pretoria, Ottawa- or Washington, instead of remaining in the present crowded and usually dingy London surroundings, is tho opinion of the American, Pago Gasten of the Museum Galleries of London, who suggests in event of a, decision to dismantle nineteen redundant city churches, ilia, they should be exported to tllie Dominions and America, where he believed the matter would be taken up with the Bishop of London during the latter’s world tour. Gaston points out that apart from, tho fraternal link with English-speaking peoples thus added, such a scheme would bring in some millions sterling to the impoverished Church of England.