ITEMS IN BRIEF

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 109, 1 February 1930, Page 12

ITEMS IN BRIEF

Mails Roach London. —The Postal awthorities have received advice that mails which left Wellington per the R.M.B. Tahi.ti, via San Francisco, on December 31, arrived in London on January 30. Mining Dispute Settled.—The State coal mines dispute has been nettled, and work will be resumed to-day (states ft Press Association message from Greymouth). The Call of Conscience,—According to received as “conscience money" sums totalling £5/3/6. The senders’ direct allocation of the moneys is as follow*— 2/6 and 1/-, forwarded to the General Department; £1 forwarded to the PubPost Office; £4 forwarded to the Railway lie Works Department Limiting East European Immigrants.— In consequence of the inux of immigrants from East Europe, chiefly from Lithuania, a Bill has been introduced in the South African Parliament limiting the number of immigrants to fifty a year from these countries. —Press Assn. Steamer Partly Disabled.—The British steamer Lucistin, limping towards the Queensland coast having developed engine trouble, is now reported 750 miles east of Rockhampton. Fearing the possibility of a cyclone, the master sent a wireless message for assistance, and the tug Coringa was dispatched —Frees Assn. Girl’s Scalp Replaced.—ln replacing the scalp of Catherine Thorp, injured by factory machinery at Melbourne, the doctors performed a most delicate operation which, if successful will be a most remarkable surgical feat. It is hoped to set the scalp by skin grafting. The girl is still conscious.—Press Assn. Death of Youth.—William Stothart, aged 20 years, who was employed as a cadet at the Dunedin Medical School, was admitted to the Dunedin Hospital at midnight on Wednesday, and died about 2 a.m. on Thursday morning. A post-mortem on the body was conducted yesterday morning, and an inquest opened in the afternoon. Evidence of identification was taken and the inquest adjourned until a date to be fixed later.—Press Assn. Prince of Wales in Africa.— k Press Association message from Cape Town states that the Prince of Wales left on Thursday for Johannesburg, where he will spend a few hours prior to leaving for Beira, where he takes steamer for Mombasa, the base from which, his shootfrin •hpn’inj!