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Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1921, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

“WET” VICTORY. VICTORIA, 8.C., Nov. 1. British Columbia, in a plebiscite today, gave an overwhelming verdict against thc prohibition law in force here for the past 3 years. Incomplete returns place the majority in favour of Government control of the sale of liquor at upwards of 30,000. Women went in large numbers to the polls and are held mainly responsible for the decisiveness of the result. With few exceptions both cities and country districts gave a majority for Government control. CLUB QUARREL SEQUEL. NEW YORJv, Nove nber 3. Air John J. AlcGraw, manager and part-owner of the New York National League Baseball Club, lias been indicted by the Federal Grand Jury for having a bottle of whisky in his nossessi n. The indictment is the outcome of an incident at Lamb’s Club, an erginisation of the theatrical professing last August when Air AlcGraw was thrashed by an actor, Air William H. Boyd, after an altercation in the club home. Later the same day Mr John C. Slavic. another actor, who had accompanied Air AlcGraw in a taxicab to his home, was found with a fractured skull outside AfcGraw’s uat. Air Slavin layin St. Luke’s hospital at death’s door for two months but was discharged a few days ago after it was reported that Air AlcGraw had paid him £4,oo'' in settlement for his injuries.

PFI Y SICA T. TR AIXING

THE HAGUE, Nov. 9

Holland has decided to take up in earnest the question of compulsory physical training of all of its young men, and at the same time to reduce the length of compulsory service in the army on the theory that gymnastic work would be as beneficial as soldiering.

A Bill has been prepared for Parliament proposing a, certain amount of physical drill would bo taken up in the schools until the youths left them, and then would be under Government control, DUST SHAKEN FROM OLD-TIME STATUTE. LONDON, Nov 10. An act of Edward 111., passed in 1328, was invoked at the Essex Assizes against a farmer named William Gridley. Last Whit Monday, after a disturbance at the village of Corringham, be had fetched a gun from his bouse and liied into the air. Therefore, he was charged with going about a public street, without lawful occasion, in such a manner as to be a nuisance.

Justice Avery was not impressed by the old act, he said. It was meant to apply to people going about in lull a amour swinging a. naked sword, and that sort of thing. He directed Gridlev’s discharge. UNDER ARRESTDUBLIN, November 8. Patrick Alalion, the Sinn Fein leader, wlm tricked tb e British Government into deporting bis substitute four years ago, is under arrest here to-day. Alabon was light-handed man -for Alike Collins, reported commander of the Sinn Fein army, and one of the leaders in the 1916 uprising. At that time he was sentenced to six months in prison and deportation. Another J?inu Foiner substituted for ALihon and the authorities deported the wrong man.

SI.ISII' in Oil, I’IUOKK. WASHINGTON, November 9. "Ovor-production” in the iUnited States is the reason assigned by British oil companies for an unexpected reduction of six cents a gallon in the price of gasoline in Great Britain after a sudden increase of fourteen cents a gallon in August, according to advice from the American Chamber ot Coins mo roe in 'London to-day. British consumers, however, the chamber reported, attribute the slump to the investigation of the central profiteering committee into the increase ill price, DEATH OF ARMENIANS, bONDON, November 5. According to further details received iu Armenian circles here regatrding the fall of Madjin, in the Cilician Taurus, to the Turkish Nationalists, it appears the Turks made a converging attack during the third week in October. Surviving Armenians say a pitched battle occurred, in which Armenian men and hoys fought with scythes and sticks, as all their ammunition had been exhausted. The Armenians wore overpowered, and all innocent civilians, numbering 10,000 were put to death by the Turks. £15,220 PAID FOR COLT. DONCASTER, Eng. Oct. 25. A yearling colt by the famous English racehorse, The Tetrarch, out ot the equal famous mare Blue Tit, has been purchased by Lord Glanely, a racehorse owner for £15,220. Ibis is believed to bo a record price for a t horoughbread yearling.

MRS ASQUITH’S BOOK

LONDON, November 18. [n the House of Commons to-day. Mrs Asquith’s famous book of reminiscences was abviously meant in a question by General Sir Newton Moore to the Prime Minister, asking whether the latter’s attention had been drawn to the fact that certain volumes just published contained copies of secret ■State documents, and whether he proposed to take steps to prevent further disclosures in the future, Mir Lloyd George replied that he had not read the works referred to, but it was an obligation on Ministers Admirals and Generals not to disclose confidential statements without the previous consent of the Government. A member interjected: “What about their wives?” The Prime Minister did not reply.