MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1927, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

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A FIRE. .MELBOURNE, June 11. A lire in the store of Howard Smith and Company, shipowners, North Wharf road caused damage estimated to exceed CIO,OOO stehling. 'I wo employees discovered the lire early hut were liable to raise the local telephone ex (‘hail go to notify the fire brigade for fifteen minutes. Meantime the lire gained a strong liolU.

NO SYDNEY MAILS. AUCKLAND. June 11. A most unusual occurrence, there will be no Sydney mail and passenger steamer arriving at a New Zealand port next week, and communication beta ecu Auckland and the Commonwealth direct will also be suspended. This i- due to due Climaroa being laid up at Sydney a fortnight, undergoing overhaul and survey. In eonse(|Uence. only the regulai passenger vessels are now operating, Malieno and Mamma. Yesterday the former left here and the Mamma sailed front Wellington for Sydney whence it will sail on Friday next. The cargo steamer Kaitake sailing from Sydney yesterdav. may bring an Australian mail, h j> due at Auckland on Thursday.

SYDNEY. June 11 Arrived at eight: Mnkltra . SYDNEY. June II

The trainer of Cherry Ripe says the horse is still in a bad way and will not be taken to Melbourne to start rn the Grand National hurdle race. The owner. Murphy, who came from New Zealand specially to see the horse run and the Auckland jockey for the hurdle race reluriis home on I' i nlay.

N S W. POLITICS. SYDNEY. June 11. Air flavin -el the ball rolling in connection willi the forthcoming State Elections by opening the Nationalist campaign at. Bathurst. He described the’ Lang Government as the worst that had ever existed in this State, and charged Lang with various acts of gross political dishonesty.

RUGBY TEAM FOR BRITAIN. SYDNEY'. June 11. Twenty-eight- members of a Rugby team to tour Britain ami France in the coming season are:— • Flill-haek. Ross: three-quarters. Palmer. Wallace. Egan, E. Ford. Towers. King. Bowers Gordon: live-eighths, Lawton, Sheehan, Afeagher; halves. Duncan. Malcolm; forwards. Tarleton. Blackwood. Oalir. J. Tailored. Woods, Fox'. Finlay, Judd. Storey. J. Ford.

Thorn. Braekeridge. A. Tancred. Groatorex. One more is to be chosen. The team should mould into a formidable combination.

WIR BLESS COMM ISSION. SYDNEY. June 11. At the wireless commission, evidence was given that the State Government proposed to erect one high-powered central .station in or near Sydney, and six relay stations for the broadcasting purposes scheme. In addition ther« will bo alternative means of communication in the event of a dislocation of the telegraph service. G. A. Taylor, representing the Association fur the development of wireless, giving evidence said lie had received a cable from

a Victorian experimenter at presold living in America, that the Australian beam service, between England and Australia was well received there, when sent either way round the world.

SPANISH. THRONE. PARIS, June 10. “Lc Journal's" Madrid correspondent says: ‘‘The Spanish Heir Apparent is suffering from acute heniohilia. He copiously bloods at the slightest scratch, anti lie is unable to walk, but drives in a motor car equipped with a special mattress. The world’s best .specialists have treated hint for years with meagre results.’’ It. is stated that in consequence of the former’s disabilities, the succession of tl’ie 'Parotic will devolve on Juan Carlos, the. third soil, whose age is fourteen years.

FRENCH POLITICS. PARTS, June 10. Tlio Chamber rejected hy 281 to 213 a motion to discuss an agreement for recreating the match monopoly, cabled on 2-ftli. ALii'ch. Government did not make it a question of confidence.

CHRISTCHURCH. June 10. At the Supreme Court, James Bell, for breaking, entering and theft, was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. The Judge said Bell had a splendid war record and had, with his family, been struggling hard against poverty.