MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 August 1921, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. ADDRESS TO THE KING. LONDON, August 6. The Imperial Conference has presented the following address to the King: AVe. the Prime Ministers and other representatives of the British Empire, speaking on behalf of the United Kingdom, the British Dominions, the Indian Empire and British Grown Colonies and protectorates, desire, on the eve of the concluding meeting, to present our humble duty to your Majesty 1 , and reaffirm our loyal devotion to the Throne. We have been conscious throughout our deliberations that the most e3sential of tho links binding our widely spread peoples is the. Crown, and it is our determination that no changes in our status as peoples or governments shall weaken our common allegiance to the Empire and its Sovereign^ Knowing your Majesty’s deep interest in all that touches your people’s happiness, we trust our labours at this time of worldwide unrest may be satisfactory to you, and conduce to the welfare and safety of your Dominions as well as the peace of the world. We pray that your Majesty and the Queen may long be spared to enjoy the affection of your subjects, and to see all classes equally recovered from the strain and sacrifice of the war. AfR LLOYD GEORGE. TRIBUTE FROAf AfR HUGHES LONDON, August 0 Mr Hughes, unveiling a statue of Afr Lloyd George at Castle Square. Carnarvon, in the presence an enor mousi gathering of spectators, said that in the statue of the greatest son of Wales they saw enshrined Ilic spirit and genius of her race, her vicissitudes, sacrifices and triumphs. Afr Lloyd George stood as during the war. comporting himself as the leader of a great nation in the most critical years of its history. Many critics would deny his claims to greatness.' but they, only said what their prototypes said of Pitt. Gladstone, Disraeli and Fin coin. Tt was significant that ho had travelled twelve thousand miles to sit in a Council of Empire under the presidency of the great Welshman. Wales was holding her own in fhfite days Natives of the once despised principality were proving capable of playing a prominent part in world affairs, not only in the British Empire, but in the great republic of America. Afr l.loyd George was- a. great, historic figure. “Tn an hour of desperate crisis,” said Afr Hughes. “Britain called for a man. and fie came and led it to snfetv.”

Mrs Lloyd George, unveiling a stained glass window in Flansnntffrard village church. in memory of Mr Hughes’s motlier, declared: “We ar, lirnud of Air Hughes, not only ns a Welshman hut one of the greatest sons of the Empire.” Mr Hughes, unveiling a war memorial window, said the ceremony was emblematic of the great’ Empire to which we belong. Tt was the same spirit throughout the Empire that sent men aeross the oeean to France and Palestine. Bishop Prodsham dedicated both v inflows. CUSTOMS PUTTER EXCEED ESTIMATES. LOXDOX, August (i. The Commissioner of Customs and Excise in the report for the year ended March Hist, states that the people increased spending power prior to the present depression produced the following increases in revenue over (he estimates: Spirits. £8.(503.000; sugar. £2.01d.f100; motor-cars £89(5.000: entertainments, £879.000: matches £097 000. Beer shows a decrease of tM.422,000. 11K ROD’S COLONAHES. DISCOVERIES AT ASCALOX. LONDON, July 20. The Colonial Office has received reports fro'ni Palestine showing that valuable results have boon obtained hv the \ntif|uities Branch of the Ordnance Department The great Vloistcirs with which Herod the Croat (King «>f d/den under the Homans 15. C. 37-1) adorned his birthplace have l»ee.n identified and excavated at Ascalon, while a liexag.mal court with mosaic pavements and an ambulatory, has been uncovered near the synagogue at Capernaum. Steps are being taken to preserve and protect the Crusaders’ Tow°r at Bamleh and other monuments. (Tp to the present f>ooo objects have been catalogued and placed in the museum which will shortly he opened to the public. back suicide. LONDON, Aug. 8. Sir .fames Mnrohant is planning a world tour, including Australia, New' Zealand, Canada and the United States with a view to organising an international conference in Kurope in 1922 to deal with the reaffirmation of-the normal ideal relating to sox, marriage, parenthood and the rise and fall of populations and birth-rates. He savs: The tour does not represent any party, creed or association, but the whites of the world most now stand together to prevent racial submersion. All the English Bishops. Non-Conformists, leaders, General Booth, and many wellknown philanthropists and social workers are supporting the project.