MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1928, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

(Australian ,V N.Z. CabJo Association.) RELAT lONS- WI TH RUSSIA. LONDON, Feh. 13. The "Daily Express” Paris correspondent reports that the Soviet observer is AI. Boris, one of the ablest permanent Secretaries of the Moscow Foreign Office. It is probable thatAI. Stein will seek a meeting with Sir Austen Chamberlain, the success or otherwise of which will depend on whether AI. Litvinoff goes to Geneva to take up negotiations with a view to the resumption of relations. AIR AAIERY S TOUR. LONDON. Feb. 12. The “Daily Express,'’ writing editorially, hopes Air Amei'y lias not been too busily engaged in imparting instruction to the Dominions to receive any in return. “His tour is of little use from an Imperial standpoint unless be brings back a decided preference for action over talk. While the ways of filling up the Dominions with Britishers lias been endlessly debated, and written on. a practical continuous policy is still wanted. The value of Air Amery’s peregrinations may he judged by what he does to forward this necessity. LONDON. Feh. 13. Sir James Parr and party, with the Agents-General anil many friends, welcomed Air Amer.v and Mrs Ainery at Easton Station. Air Ainery will he the guest at tt banquet arranged by the Empire Parliamentary Association. CORONATION OF POPE. LONDON, Feh. 13. Representatives of fourteen nations, members of the two Houses of Parliament and thousands of prominent Roman Catholics thronged Westminster . Cathedral for the service commemorating the anniversary of the coronation oli Pope Pins. This i s the first time such a commemoration has taken place in England. The service included vespers, the benediction, and solemn To Demn. Cardinal Bourne held a reception at ■ the Archbishop's house after the service. SIXTY-SIX SPANS. LONDON, Feb. 3. The contract for the sluice gates for the Sukkur Barrage on the river Indus, the largest of its kind in the world, has been placed by the India Office with Ipswich firm. A gate, 60ft wide and 18 deep, weighing about 40 tons, will ho fitted in each of the 66 spans of the barrage. “ AYES ” HAVE IT. NEW YORK, Feh. 3. Judge “Ben” Lindsay, champion ol trial marriages, defeated Rabbi A\ ise in a public debate last night on the “ companionate arrangement.” Rabbi Wise attacked “ trial marriages ’’ as “sex shopping,” hut the voting of the 3000 auditors gave Judge Lindsay a majority of 50. CURE OF CRIMINALS. X-RAY TREATMENT. NEW YORK, Fob. 3. After many experiments, a group of physicians suggests it is possible to reclaim criminals into decent members of society by curing their bad instincts with the X-ray. They claim to have perfected a methdo of dissolving the thymus gland by an application of the ray, so removing the criminal tendency. The thymus gland is present in children, but disappears in~ "PPUinid adults or becomes rudimentary.

BOGUS LORD. GUILTY OF £IB,OOO THEFT. ' NEW YORK. Feb. 3. Charles Renee, alias Whitman, who posed as Lord Bon verb rook, the wellknown English publisher, was charged with the theft of £IB,OOO worth of 1 jewels from Airs Rose Btukctt ,of New York, on the pretext of having them appraised for insurance. Two days after parting with Airs Burkett, Renee met Mrs Virginia Alartin. a wealthy widow of Washington, to whom he introduced himself as a noble lord. Airs Alartin testified that they were married within a month. Then Renee disappeared with 22000 of her funds. Renee was found guilty, and his sentence has licet) deferred. YANKEE HUSTLE RECORD. LEBANON (Tennessee). February 3. America’s fastest romance was recorded yesterday, when Gordon Weir, a 1 Cumberland University student, met. wood, won and married ALario Snell in exactly four hours. Weir, undaunted by the fact that all the ministers of the town were attending the University commencement, enlisted the services of the combination undertaker-magistrate to perform the marriage ceremony. TTNEMPLOYED BENEFIT. LONDON. Feh. 11. Tll the House of Commons, ATr Betterton, replying to a question, said the amount of unemployed benefit paid in Great Britain in the financial year 1926-1927 was about £50.00,000. or 23s per head of population.