STOP PRESS ITEMS

Evening Star, Issue 17927, 24 March 1922, Page 8

STOP PRESS ITEMS

SURPLUS WOOL PROFITS. A Wellington message says The statements made at the meeting of the Dominion"Excculive of the Farmers’ Union in reference to_ the surplus wool profits were brought under the notice of the Prime Minister to-uay. Mr Massey stated that the whole of the information relating to the saw ot the wool and the subsequent disposal of it had been compiled and was now only awaiting bis final revision. He had stated his willingness to allow the responsible persons who were interested to peruse Hie papers, and some had taken advantage of this. The whole report was_ a lengthy document, and jt would bo impossible to give the information it i contained in brief. It had not yet been decided how it should bo published, but probably it would have to bo printed in pamphlet form, unless it ware kept till Parliament met and laid on the table of the House as a parliamentary, paper. ASPHYXIATED BY GAS. At 6.45 this morning the caretaker of the New Zealand Insurance Company’s Building found Cecil Clifford, a clerk, in the stationery room, with the gas turned'on full but not lit. Dr Evans was sent for, but could only pronounce life to bo extinct. Deceased was single, twenty-four years of age, and a relumed soldier with three years’ service. An inquest was held at the morgue this afternoon. LATE CABLES DELHI, Mr,roll 23.—-The Prince bad a wonderful• journey - ,from Colombo to Kandy. ’During the morning the entire population of tins district, ior fifteen miles on each side of the railway, gathered at the way stations to see Ins special train pass. It was like the popular demonstrations in Australia and Canada. There were solid masses of Ceylonese in deep rows at every station platform and on the banks, recks, and trees between them. They went ro extraordinary pains to decorate his seventy-mile route from the coast. Even single mud huts displayed a Union Jack. Every tiny village under the palms showed its loyalty. Bamboo arches or garlands were strung between the trees. For ‘three and a-half hours the Prince passed what appeared to bo an almost continuous crowd, beginning in Colombo and continuing along the. rice fields of the plain, then clinging in thin line- to the steep sides of the hills, where the tram began to ci:;e’> into cooler air, and swelling again in numbers as the train apm-oathed 1 os pleasant little city. The absolute sp-ntaneitv of the reception v, unmistakable. The people cheered like Europeans or sainted-the Prince with precise volleys of - hand clapping. Some stations contributed _ groups o; industrious drummers banging tom-toms. The Prince was received at the station by the Kandy chiefs in picturesque full dress. They wore balloonlike skirts and heavy silk jewelled hats.—A. and N.Z. Cable. MELBOURNE, March 24.—Hides: Market irregular. Heavy hides with substance, unchanged; ordinary hides and heavy kips, fully Ml to ”d OW£ LONDON, March 23.-—After investigating Russian famine conditions, Sir dames Allen appeals to New Zealanders for continued help. He said ; i want to assure New Zealand that the money will bo well spent.” Sir James Allen suggests that contributions might _b*e made to the generalfeud instead of to the children's fund, because it is futile to save the children uidess some of the adults live to sow the crops. New Zealand kitchens are operating at Saratov, Arrangements are being made to designate them <• Oamnru” and "Dunedin.” Ho says that other towns which sideei'i.e £IOO will’ be similarly advertised. —A. and N.Z. Cable. PARIS, March 23.—Wales defeated France at Rugby by 11 points 0". 3. —Reuter. , ~ ~ ~ . GIBRALTAR, March 23.—1 t is believed that the oeath roll oil m thirty. The destroyer Versatile was proceeding to England 'the lunq of the accident,—Reuter^