MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 27 September 1927, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

ALFONSO CM KCKAIATED. MALTAI). Sept, lfi,

King Alfonso’s long struggle with General Prime do Rivera has ended in victory for the latter—recently the King signed a decree convoking the Assembly, which will be a consultative body with the Government retaining the power of decision. The news has created a sensation in political (piarters, where it was thought the King might resist do ltivera.

vSenor Sanchez, the leader of the Conservatives, is going to prance, where lie will denounce the Assembly as illegal and unconstitutional, while the Labour leader, Scnor Besteim, declares that no Labour representative will sit in the Assembly. Senor llomanoes, Liberal leader, said: ''Constitutional monarchy has now ceased to exist in Spain.”

ARTIFICIAL BKAHTY. CHICAGO, Sept. Ki. Fanny Price, the famous comedienne, is seeking a divorce from the equally famous .Nicholas Ainstein, who recently completed a gaol sentence for sv. i lulling. Fanny, who had her face ‘"lifted” and her nose straightened by beauty doctors, declares she became so beautiful that her husband developed an “inferiority complex” and deserted her.

BAX HACKS FOR MOTORISTS. LONDON. Sept. lfi. Week-end motorists, on the busy Southend Road—popularly known as “ Suicide Avenue ’ —saw a pedlar displaying a placard, “ Bandages, three a penny.” ROYAL SALESWOMAN. LONDON, Sept. lb. The Queen was a stallholder at a fete at Balmoral Castle recently. Business was lively and Her Majesty sold out an enormous stock of flowers, and finally disposed of the jars in job lots. Princess Mary sold soap and perfume. A picture by Winston Churchill, painted by Her Majesty’s command, realised 11*5 guineas.