MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1928, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

QUAKE IN MEXICO. 150 LIVES LOST. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). MEXICO CITY, Oct. 13. Six coastal towns in Oaxaca and Guerrero, Mexico, have been wiped out vf existence by an earthquake, which has been shaking the country continuously for the last five days. Utter misery and terror reigns along fifty miles of coast line. The dead are estimated to total 150. CHINESE HORROR. TERRIBLE MASSACRE, SHANGHAI, Oct. 13. The reported massacre in the Kansu Province of two. hundred thousand Chinese bv Moslems, which emanated from New York, through the Famine Relief Commission, lias now been confirmed. Peking despatches to-day are the first local news received of the trouble, which commenced last June following on the failure of Moslem delegates to secure from the Provincial authorities a reduction of taxes. A general uprising of Moslems followed.

The number slain is estimated in the local reports at one hundred thousand, instead of two hundred thousand. The districts affected are in the neighbourhood of Lane-how. The misery of the population was increased by crop failure, and a famine was unavoidable. MENACE' OF DIVORCE. OTTAWA, October 13. Preaching at Winnipeg, Archbishop Mafcheson, Primate of All Canada, said that divorce was a canker that was eating the very vitals of civilisation. He condemned the modern flair of sensationalism in marriage. He Urged the Anglican Mothers’ Union to check the growing menace of marriages in hotels and in homes. “The ghastly innovation of aeroplane marriage” was condom ned. His Grace added: “The fact that eighty per cent, of the child delinquents come from the homes where there lias been divorce indicates the great danger.”

WOMEN’S HAIR. LONDON, October 12. The exhibits in the Hairdresser’s Show indicate that women will definitely have a feminine head of hair in future. The hair will be slightly longer, and will be wavy, instead of straight, thus sounding the death knell of the boyish girls and Eton crops. Twelve million women yearly wave their hair, as compared with only 500 in 1908. One hairdressing establishment is capitalised at one million sterling. BURGLARIES AT CHRISTCHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH, October 13. Three robberies are reported in the suburbs here. Thieves entered G. W. Smith’s store, Opawa Road, by smashing a door. They took away a quantity of mixed stock, including tobacco valued in all at £OO.

Dalton’s !w>ot store, Lin wood, was entered through a glass door. The thieves took sixteen pairs of shoes. On Friday evening a house at St. Martin’s was also entered, but the thieves could find only a tliree-penny piece.