MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1927, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. ARY EX I CHOUS SEAFARER. BERLIN. Dee. 2(i. Captain Karl Kireheis lias arrive: at tlie mouth of the Lower Elbe, completing a two years' trip around the world in a small sailing boat. KING OF AFGHANISTAN. CAIRO, Dec 20. Tiie King of Afghanistan, en route to England and Russia on his first trip abroad, was met bv the King of Egypt on bis arrival and was escorted to iho palace, amid cheering crowds. ACTION BY SPAM LINGER. LAUSANNE. Dee. 20. Al. iSpaldingcr is suing the Socialist newspaper. “La Populairc,” for 200.000 francs in connection with an attack on bis serum treatment of tuberculosis.

ELECTRIC RAT RACING. LONDON, Dec 2(5. The London Stadium Club is installing an electric rat, with a run of 100 yards for terriers. DA .ME LLOYD 'oLORGE. LISBON, Dec. 20. Dame I.lovd George, with her daughter and son and her sen's wife, narrowly escaped an accident when returning to the Avclona aboard a launch, which collided with a .stationary boat ow'iig to the rough seas. Little damage was done and nobody was injured. Air Lloyd George himself bail remained aboard the Avciona, which was late, owing to 1 lie fierce gales. ANA RCHISTS ARR ESTED. BUENOS AIRES. Dee. 20. The police report the arrest of eleven employees of the anarchist paper, " l.a Protesta.” in a raid carried out in connection with a wide-spread investigation of the bombing of two American banks on December 24. These arrests bring the week-end total to eighty-one.

sale of newspaper. LONDON, Dec. 20. The “Evening Standard” says ‘ AYitb the transfer of the 'Daily Telegraph.’ anoi lie;- dynasty passes from Fleet Street The ‘Telegraph’ lias so tong been considered as a monument of Conserv-ntis.nl that the present generation faiL to realise that it began as strongly radical and distinctly sensational It was in the seventh’s that the 'Tclograp.il' passed from Liberalism to Dixraelian Imperialism. at a (ini? when Gladstone was hooted in the streets of London. It is nnder.s’Oud thaL the new regime will make it a penny paper 4 here is deep regret at the departure of Lord Burnham from journalism, which had in him a slig’dfioii and effective ambassador to the great world which everywhere recognised him as an alert and i expansible ion rnalist.”

.MURDER AND SUICIDE. PARKS. Dec. 20. A love tragedy resulted in five nuir- | tiers and a suicide at Grasse near Nice., An Armenian labourer named Pedjinn. was staying at Grasse with hi; fiancee, her parents, her sist*?r and her two young brother;. The girl, for health reasons, decided not to marry Dedjian .who armed liimseTf with an axe. broke into the house, murdered tbe mother, sister and two brothers, and then stabbed his fiancee before committing suicide. The tragedy was discoverer by a young deaf and dumb girl friend of the fiancee, who came 10 the house after the massacre. She was so horrified that her reason is in peril.