MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1928, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) REACTION IN EGYPT. CAIRO, July 21. Tho Wafd Society (Nationalists) is astounded at tho suspension of the Parliamentary Government in Egypt, for ten years. The ex-Premier, Naims Pasha, and tho Wafd Executive were determined' to hold a meeting, which was prohibited. Tho police restricted proceedings to a tea party with sixty, guests. Stones were thrown and the police cleared the streets, also making ten arrests. The newspaper “ Alahram ” states tho Wafd Party reserves the right to pursue the struggle for the country’s, independence.

A DIVORCE CASE. VANCOUVER, July 20. A 'Commission of the Presbyterian Church has decided adversely on tho ease of the Rev. William RobertsonOrr, who came to Canada three years ago from Wellington, New Zealand. The Commission finds that he has been giiilty of conduct so unbecoming in a -Minister as to necessitate tho dissolution of libs pastoral tie with the fashionable Central Church at Vancouver, autl that he remains in suspension from holy duties until tho completion of a divorce action that is now pending, and in which the Rev. Mr Robertson-Orr is named as co-re-spondent by Mr Gordon 'Fleck, a middle-aged capitalist, who is' suing his wife, (particularly because, he alleges, she took a trip with the Rev. Robert-son-Orr, in the latter’s room aboard a steamer’from Vancouver to Victoria.)

The evidence includes an overheard conversation between the Rev. Robertson Orr and Mrs Fleck over the telephone, in which she sweetly described her present bedroom condition as being “as nude as my nose.” The lady explained later that she was referring to a new-fangled face powder called “ nude,” and that her words over the ’phono were: “I am nuding my nose.” It is alleged by the other side that this so-called “nude” powder was not marketed in Vancouver until seveial weeks after the alleged ’phone conversation. In any event, the case has the Presbyterian church circles by the ears throughout every city in Canada, and the Committee’s action to-day was the result of a discussion by the General. Assembly of the' Presbyterian Church of Canada.

SOCIETY SCANDAL. LONDON, July 22. The Court found Sir Afnx Bonn not guilty of misconduct, as alleged in his wife’s petition for a divorce, which was dismissed. Lady Bonn alleged repeated misconduct on Bonn’s part in Paris and in the West End. The Judge, on summing up, pointed out that the only evidence of misconduct came from paid watchers, two loose Parisian women. The case has lasted for three weeks. The husband has brought a counter suit in connection with which the names of Sir Ronald Waterhouse, the Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Rt, Hon. Stanley Baldwin, and also Air Arthur Marcus and Mr Hanburv are mentioned. If this suit is equally as prolonged as the wife s all records under the modern divorce law will be broken. The legal costs amount to ntt-i thousand sterling. 14 barristers, including six King’s Counsels, have been engaged.. . I

MEXICAN CHARGES. MEXICO CITY, July 22. Government are considering an investigation into charges by Obyegon su.r> porters that Louis Marones . (Minister of Labour) created an anti-Obre-gon atmosphere and was partly responsible for the assassination. The farmer hloc is demanding Marones’ resignation, threatening civil war.