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Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1927, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

ARMAGEDDON IN MAY 1928,

I'OR ['TOLD BY* SIGNS IN PYRAMID LONDON, March 2. Thousands of people were unable to gam admission to the Albert Hall last night when the British Israel Work, federation hold n meeting to proclaim Hm approach of Armageddon, the final great world war. the date of which, dod need from Biblical prophecies and the architecture of the great pyramid ol Cheops, was stated to ho Mav ‘>o of next year.

Those entering the hall were besieged by disappointed people anxious to obt:"n The vast audience was gathered from all p arts of Ule country. Mr John Leech said; Most thinking men must realise Hat they are one the eve of momentnous proceedings. The unrest that prevails, the spread of Communism, anarchy, and Bolshevism which >s growing like a great wave over the world ,s chiefly directed at Britain and the British Empire. A volley of lies and artillery of calumny are directed against the Empire. Have we no guide lor the future?

SECRET BEING UNLOCKED “ The secret of the great Pyramid is >emg unlocked. That wonderful Pyramid contains the history of the world ■t contained the precise date of the last war which Britain entered and the actual date of the end of the war Can we doubt that the Pyramid will tell the great truths of the future = The 'hhle and the Pyramid corroborate each Otll | o ''- ■. ' Thp r to" aUo of the second coining of Christ, and or His coming reign over His people, and of a thousnnd venrs of pc^^c*o. ,, G. Davidson said:

“ 7, '° message of the great Pyramid muy 1.0 summed up thus-thromd, f """Hums'll to chaos, through Christ to conquest.

“ Hie people of ancient Egypt knew I here was only one reliable standard of measure, the earth’s polar diameter. Ihc\ divided it into 300.000.000 parts cadi of which was almost exactly on'»ch The people know the precise. Imgth of the solar year. 3(ls‘M” da vs These two (-nines are the only required il!l ll »' ’’"tails of the Pyrannd.

• The Pyramid’s exterior gh-es all U '° a "«' ’’'stance yah.es of the "•"•Hi and its orbit round the sun ’ "'tenor system of the Pyramid gi'os complete catalogue for overyear for (>.OOO years. It ends with the ir.M-rit century, f have boon able to establish the interpretation of Hie great Pyramid allegory. From he innan agnostic T became a believer in the ’•mne revelation. Most astonishing piopliecies are given in the Pyramid.”

SCOTS national pageant EDINBURGH, May 1. .Members of nearly 100 Scottish noble iainihe.s whose ancestors played leading parts in dramatic events around t-ho Scottish capital towards the end "I the Kith century have been approached to impersonate their distinguished forebears ip the Scottish \a tiona! Pageant, the opening of whirl, n Craig,ndlar Castle, near Edinburgh. King and Queen will attend on •July 11.

Mr -Walter Graham Montgomery. I rovost ot Kinross, the lion, organiser. to-day gave me suae of the n:?,i,.. s , ' v!l ° !la '-" consented to take ending roles. The pageant represents the period between the reign of Janies I\ • of Scotland and Mary Queen of Scots-.

The Countess of stair has consented to impersonate Mary Queen of •Scots The veteran Marquis of Hunt- ' "'l’ ''"present, his ancestor, the Earl ol ITunlly, who was Chancellor to .Tames TV. The Earl of Lauderdale, c.ireet descendant of Maitland of Lethmgto, who was Queen Mary’s secrewill take that part, and Captain ■ s - Camphell-Sn iiiton, Lyon King of Arms, will represent the Lyon King ot the period.

Sir Frank Benson, the Sliakospcrcnn player, is the pageant master. The horsemen and bowmen, monks and choristers, and folk-dances, sports, the music, and the colourful dress of the peioid are all to he reproduced.

MOST PRECIOUS STONE. LONDON, May 1. .Rest End jewellers and diamond merchants are being besieged by people who. having invested capital'in diamonds, are now perturbed by the statement ot Sir Ernest Oppeiiheiiner, cli.-iirnian of the Anglo-American Corporation of South Africa, that unless the output of alluvial diamonds is vogulated the time may came when it will not pay to produce diamonds in that country.

To all these anxious inquirers experts return the same answer:

“If your diamonds arc really fine ones, you have nothing to fear, hut if they are only small stones—what are called in the trade melee—yon probably do stand to lose, because this is rfhnt alluvial diamonds are for the most part.”

NOT ENOUGH FINE DIAMONDS. Mr AY. Ogden, diamond merchant, of King street. SAY., said:

“The real position is that there are not enough fine diamonds for people who want them. At the moment there is an inquiry for a 10-ciirats stone, and it cannot bo supplied in London. That stone wll cost the purchaser anything from £2OO per carat upwards. Only the other dav T sold a diamond at £450 per carat.” Mr Ogdon mentioned that. to-d:i" the emerald is the “most precious” of precious stones. “The specimen emerald is worth anything up to £ICQO tier carat. Only the other day I sold an extra fine specimen at £1,250 a carat.” WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE. In face of these repeated assertions of diamond merchants that the price of good diamonds is not falling the following letter from a woman correspondent is of interest: “I have just received under a bequest a five-stone diamond ring. Three months ago it was valued in New York for the purposes of probate of £IOO. To-day in London the best offer T can get for it is £ss a difference of £45 compared with the American probate valuation, which is always understood to ‘be made on a conservative basis, something like 50 per cent of the real value.”

A plnrallel to the present diamond situation is provided by that of natural pearls as compared with the culture or Janane.se variety. “The culture pearl,” said a merchant yesterday, “is generally small and only competes with the small natural pearl, and then not to a great extent. Largo pearls are not affected at nil in price by this new competition and. indeed, pearls are as popular as diamonds and nearly as expensive.”