MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1927, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

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MELBOURNE TRAGEDY. MELBOURNE, Oct. 29. The police at Albur.v have arrested a matt on a vagrancy charge in connection with the deaths of Taylor and Cutmore. They now are ol opinion that the bullet which killed Cutmore was not fired by Taylor, but by a third man. who afterwards disappeared.

ITALIAN STEAMER WRECKED I,ON DON. Oct. 28

'flic Italian steamer Isa bo bound from .Montreal to Hamburg went ashore cm the rocks at Seliilles. Fisherman res cued twenty-seven members ot the crew. It is thought there are eleven slih aboard. Heavy seas drove hack the liefboats attempting to reach the Isalio.which broke in halves at dawn. A member of the crew swam aslmre despite tremendous waves. Three others, spurred by his success, plunged in, but the lifeboats rescued them exhausted. The lifeboats eventually reached the Isabor.nd found a man in the crow’s n.st dead Irom exposure. The remainder of the missing are believed to have clung to the wreckage and drifted to sea.

BETTING FIXE. LONDON. Oct. 23. The Greyhound Racing Association was lined 150 guineas lor helling on greyhounds at A\ bite I :tv. A bookmaker was lined 20s. AGR TCULTUK A L (.’(INF Eli EXCR LONDON. Oct. 29. Mr Bledisloe. in closing the agricultural conference expressed appreciation of Australia’s hospitality in inviting the conference to meet there in 19.12. No Imperial Conference had been more instructive or had produced decisions more calculated to enhance Empire prosperity in agriculture than the present.

Mr Julius stated lie was sanguine the 1932 Conference would have the most important results, not only from '. ustralia. but for the whole Empire, '.ustralian agricultural problems were legion and admittedly unsoluble without co-operation with most advanced investigators of the Empire. Australia bad done much pioneering. Nevertheless it did not claim to he more than a branch of the. British tree of scientific development.

Mr T.ovalt said the Colonial Offi.cc mill Ministry of Agriculture would support the Australian Conference, whatever Government was i- oifice. Professor Daniel Hall, of Burma, said a self-supporting Empire was needed. Britain was dependent on foreigners for forty per cent, -of her wheat and flour, and forty-seven per cent of her beef. The Dominions wore capable of supplying Hie shortage.

T.U. ULTIMATUM. NEW YOKE, G’ct. 28. “Cnfortunately the Trade Union Congress has not displayed much courage rather they are like a lot of tame rabbits practically apologising for living. They will discover the seamen a rough crowd. Persuasion goes a long way with them but force will he met by force" declared Air Havelock AVi 1 - ■on. replying to T.U.C. ultimatum. "A\ hat we have done is not to profit ourselves, but for the Lon fit of the miners. Our complaint is of the incompetence of one or two leaders of the fedration who are a danger to trade union; also attempts by reds lo ( apiuro the federation lor revolution purposes. Personally f cannot see justification for spending two thousand on convening a special conference. Anv wav i believe the delegates will follow I lie lead. If the T.U.C. cares to lose our thousand sterling affiliation it is lheir responsibility.”

memories of flinders. FOX'D OX, Oct. 21. Tlio Prince of AValos. after inspect- ■ Mfi a Inigo block of new tenements ot Shoroilit eh. nml winning tile heart of a Woman tenant by admiring her ,:< ’ called at the apartment of Sam Lewis. f think T have seen you before,’* ho. said. ‘•Vos. sir," responded Lewis, modestly but proudly, “you spoke to me u hen f was foot slogging with the ■Supply Column at Poporinghe in 101 b." A “TOT" AT SCHOOL. BELFAST, Oct. 21. Londonderry’s city fathers have accepted a tender for 1000 pints of codliver oil emulsion in order to provide a daily dc.se for ailing sehonl children during the winter months. Since the scheme was started the children have greatly improved in health. The daily dose is the most popular item in the school routine. j SI LUX OFFEXDED. LOXDOX, Oct. 21. The Spanish Government, says the Barcelona correspondent of the “Daily Mail.” has prohibited throughout Spain the exhibition of Metro-G’old-wyn-Mayer films, because, it is alleged. that cornoration presented films in Brussels and Bucharest which were offensive to the Spanish nation.

TO TRICK SPIES. LONDON, Oct. 22. Madame Ada Budart, a friend of Nurse Ctiveils, who is to appear in tho war picture, •'Dawn,” reveals in the “Weekly Despatch” that she used to call at Nurse Caveil’s house for orders. If the vist was sale she saw tho blind cord looped aside, and it German spies were active the blindcord was hung down. They sent news to agents in Holland, enclosed in rubber pellets, which a sucking-pig swallowed. The pig was driven across the frontier and killed. Belgian refugees, she says, evaded the German electric wires on the frontier by crawling through water. Altogether they helped 1 700 soldiers to escape.

STOLEN STOMACH. PARTS. Oct. 21. Detectives and doctors are determin tel 1 v searching for a stomach which was stolen from a patient during an operation at St. Michele Hospital. A surgeon took the stomach loin tho operating room and showed it iu p; fascinated students upstairs. He left it and returned an hour later in order to reinstul it. but then discovered that it was missing. It is alleged that a student, nftei examining it. slipped if in his pocke • Tho patient is unconcerned, lie • SO renovated that he no longer wants a stomach. LONDON’S TRANSPORT. RUGBY. Oct. 2(>. \ far-reaching scheme for the co-or-dination of London’s passenger transport services has been formulated b> the London and Home Counties I raffle \dvisorv Committee, and submitted lor ‘the consideration of tho Minister for Transport (Mr Wilfred Ashley).

It is understood that Cabinet has decided that the scheme shall he submitted to all the traffic authorities concerned for an expression of their views, and the report is now published in full. The proposals contemplate the consolidation of the underground railways, ti am ways, and omnibuses, under a unilied management, subject to public control and pooling, and the distribution if the surplus revenues ol the undertakings concerned.

The commit tee is convinced that if its recommendations are adopted the various' undertakings can he made self-supporting without, any increase in the general level of fares now prevailing. It is proposed tlmL, il the scheme is adopted, it should continue to operate for a minimum period of 12 years, subject. to revision or alteration within that period only by the general consent of the parlies.

TOM HEENKY PRAISED BY GENE T ENNEY. , NEW YORK. Del. 21. Gene Tuiiney has not yet signed a contract for the next championship bout, hut will insist on 15 rounds. “I would have stopped Dempsey if the last one had been 15 rounds. “Ten rounds are too short to test a man’s lasting qualities, which should certainly count.” lie declared. Tenney proceeded to praise Dempsey’s ringeraft. and said that lie feared that more than Dempsey’s punching ability. "I believe this New Zealander, Tom llconey is Hie best ol the present aspirants, and he and T may meet .some •lay, ’ remarked the champion. “In loci, if I have anything to say about it. I hope to light Hoonov on July .|th. M, ’xt and Dempsey again nn Labour - Day. 1928.” LIQUID AMMONIA PISTOL. LONDON, Oct. 21. Cutting tbe telephone wires, two men broke into “I’etwood,” Sir Archibald Meigall’s country bouse at Woodhall Spa. at 1.15 Ibis morning. The nigiitwatehninii heard a noise, and investigated, accompanied by a butler and a footman, who, shouted, “Get a gun! They’re armed!” The nightwatehman swiftly returned with a shot-gun and found iiis fellowservants, with tears streaming down their faces. A burglar, behind the door, had temporarily blinded them by firing a. liquid ammonia pistol at their eyes. The intruders then escaped. but without any booty, and lied in a waiting motor ear.

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