MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 June 1927, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

[Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.]

CAR SOMEKSA UL'J'S. GLSBORNE. .June 2. Wlule motoring on Matawhero Hoad ibis afternoon, a ear. driven by frank Button with four ouupauis, shot pi r;>:-s tile road into a deep ditch on the side, and somersaulted. Button v.as badly cut about the arm and bead. One passe lifter named Tolley, a member of the eretv of the Konlnnui. had severe cuts on the arm. and lost a I n of hloood.

Arthur Hush, a watersider, is suflering from cuts and bruises. These three were admitted to Cook Hospital. Tiie other two paxsengoi-i suffered minor injuries. An unusual feature is that just over ati hour previously two cars came into collt-i«ti at almost the same spot. The cars were damaged, but the occupants were rut seriously hurt.

BOY BREAKS ANKLE. DUNEDIN, dune 3. Ewan Dunlop, a boy four years of age, son of Scrgt. Dunlop, of the ( cutrnl Police Station, slipped on a Irosteovered path at the back door ol his parents’ resident e at I. Oxtord Street, South Dunedin. ye-tcid.i,. morning. and hroke right leg alone the ankle.

TRA.M-CAH KILLS MAN. CHRfSTCFIUR(’ 11. dace 3. . A fatal accident occurred at Bedel iff e, near Sumner, at 6.45 this evening. An elderly man was stutek by a trmnear, suffering sever.- injuries to the head, from which he died almo-t immediately. Tapers ami h-Urn. found in the detul man’s pockets indicate he was L. Gunner, of 356 Madras Street, employed in the mail i.miii ol the G.P.O. it is helieved he is a widower .

.SURVEYORS’ ST I! IKE. WELLINGTON. dune 3. Advic I' was received in Wellington recently that, flic Government Surveyors in IVrtii, Western Austialia. hail struck a protest against a. salary of £330 per annum. Applications were then invited in New Zealand and apparently there has been some, response as messages ol protest are being teceived here expressing dissatisfaction. AMERICAN FOILED. VANCOUVER, June 2. Air G. Gaymakl. an Australian, was saved nine thousand pounds by an agent’s shrewdness. An American aboard the Aorangi urged Caymald t> invest in Vancouver property. Air Caymald cabled to An Italia for money. The agent cabled the police identify the American. Ihe credit v. a - cancelled and the American vanished.

THIEVES ARRESTED. AIELBOVRNE. dune 3. One of the biggest coups carried Ollt by the Victorian Criminal Investigation Branch was effected early m tinhours of to-day. when dele.-Lives raided bouse in l-’itzroy, and arrested ftvo members of a. gang of int-.t national burglars, at the revolver I ’"* l - and recovered over a thousand yteiling of stolon property. The police state that three week-; ago thev gut oil the tracks rf the gang, and have been watching since, as tl.ev are certain that the gang was responsible lor a series ol daring burglaries, recei tlv perpetrated. Three of those, arre-ted only am-r----id from England three weeks ago. while the others were also immigrants who had been in the couiury n-ar years. pOAVEIIi-'CL RADIO. WELLINGTON, .lime 3. Broadcast listeners will be allordeil an opportunity of bearing the world s most powerful broadcast stations which operates on the normal broadcast wave, length hand to-morrow p’.eiting. ‘Htis station, ivhieli is located in New Volk, will transmit a programme employing an aerial newer of 50,000 watts, from 1.30 till 7.30 p.ni.. New Zealand time, and also next Saturday evening from 1.30 till 7.30 o’clock. New Zealand

The wave length will be 30(1 metres. 7ue call letters of the station are not announced. QUESTION OK MODESTY. BERLIN. June 2. The Bavarian Roman Catholic Bishops have created a sensation by forbidding Homan Catholic women to participate in a gymnastic tournament which has been organised at St. Xcvburg f Ol July. The Bishops’ edict is based on the decision of the German Episcopate forbidding women from participating in these public gymnastics competitions, swimming tournaments and other sports. The edict was read in the churches and the priests enjoined restraint on the women and girls under their jurisdiction.

SMUGGLING RUSSIANS. ["Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 3. A Rhihidelphia message states tiie authorities have revealed the existence of a widespread plot to smuggle Russians into the United States in excess of the immigration quota. Newtown Joseph, a steward on the British freighter General Lukin, was found guilty of bringing three Russians on a recent trip from Cuba and was fined 3GO dollars. United States Attorney Graham told tho court there were thousand Russian citizens in Cuba awaiting illegal entry to tbe United States, lie declared a large business was being done in smuggling them into steamers as stowaways for the voyage 1. 1 a United Sates port. Joseph admit* ted being .paid 100 dollars for each alien he could smuggle a hoard tho ship.

SOVIET OFFICIALS LEAVE. LONDON. June 3. Rosengoltz, lvhinehuk and thirty Soviet officials left. Victoria Station for Moscow, via Berlin, travelling in n luxurious saloon, decorated with red and yellow roses. A crowd of three hundred Communists, mostly foreigners noisily farewelled them, singing alternately the International anil Red Flag, George * Lansbury conducting, waving a bowler hat and Saklatavalia assisting. Finally Lansbury called for three cheers for tbe Soviet. There was some booing ns the train left.

TRAIN .SMASH. PARIS. Juno 3. The express hound for Nimes collided with a goods train near Moulines. The express was derailed and coaches over-turned. Nine persons were killed and twenty-seven injured.