MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16780, 8 July 1922, Page 10

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph—Pre«e Association—Copy^r** Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, July 7. Admiral Percy Grand has been appointed Admiral Superintendent of the Portsmouth dockyards. LONDON. July 7. The Albert Medal has been awarded to Jack Chalmers for the Coogee surf rescue. •ATHENS, July 7. The National Assembly is officially recognising the late King Alexander - marriage to Madame Ala nos. The Royal Family approves of the Bill, which will legitimatize the child of the marriage, but carries no right to succession to the throne. VANCOUVER. July 7. Wind last night fanned bush fires along the British Columbia coast, which were caused by a year * drought- A number of small settlements. summer resorts, and fishing villages were burned, including a returned soldier settlement at Merville, Vancouver Island, where fiftv families are homeless. The loss on timber iu the province is already £250.000. TOKIO. July 7. General Semenoff. who secured permission after much pleading to land at Nagasaki to visit the hot springs, has landed himself in a lawsuit with a •Tapancsc firm, which furnished 0000 pairs of shoes to forces. The firm had an agent on the wharf to present the bill.’ aud press for payment. LONDON. July 7. Owing to the German competition resulting from the depreciation of the mark, the Spanish Government proposes to increase the export duties on lead ores and concentrates to protect the local smelting industryLONDON, July 7. The Industrial Court has decided that tho wages of members of tbe Typographical Association. represent- _ ing newspapers and general printers in the prorin es. will !>e reduced by 12a 6d in four instalments, extending from July 11 to January, on the ground that a reduction in costs will encourage printing orders. Turner’s picture, * 4 Somerhill, near Tunbridge,’’ was sold at Christie’s for 2800 guineas. It is going to the Scottish National Gallery. His famous picture, *' The Beacon Light.’* was sold to a Bath purchaser for 2500 guineas. MOSCOW, July 7. The trial at Petrograd of priests and others for opposing the requisitioning of church property, resulted in eleven being sentenced to death, including the metropolitan bishop and several priests and professors. Fifty three priests were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. TheCourt decided to criminally prosecute the Patriarch Fikbon. LONDON. July 7. A party of British airmen arc arranging a flight from America to Australia in an attempt to win the £IO.OOO prize offered ti v an American for a trans-Pacific flight to Svdnev. LONDON. July 7. At a sale of the Rev William MacGregor’s collection of Egyptian antiquities. a miniature head of Amenemomnes the third of the twelfth dynasty brought £IO.OO. It is regarded as the world’s finest speciment of Egyptian statuary.