MISCELLANEOUS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2361, 18 January 1915, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS

j. -'AUSTRALIAN,.FREIGHTS UP. ,■>>•• .'',".-.!'': London, January 15. ! The Shipping Conference has' raised ! freights to Australia in cargo steamers ; §s. per ton; > ; THE JDOAL EXPORT EMBARGO. !•'' ':'■■; .'■"!• ■■;: > Sydney, January •The Newcastle Chamber, of Commerce r is petitioning the Minister for Customs i; to remove the embargo on the exportation/of coal to foreign ports, and, fail:ing this,-a definite announcement re-' Carding markets to which coal may be :sent. It is. pointed out ,that "the prei .'sent uncertaintyiis causing. much delay ■-. j.and injury. ; - j l/'GROWTH OF A GREAT PEOPLE." !■ :'.■ , London, January 16. !.i ; The "Times'," in a leader, comment- ;•: Sag on "the growth of a great people,*' : , says that when Germany threw the i gauntlet at Russia: she brought the Ru5;..... ;..... sian nation for ever under the'spell of • French , and, . English; progress:— ("Times". and ; Sydney ]'!-Sai'\ Services.) ;-•'•■ TSE IMPERIAL. ACRE. , ; . ..• (Rec. January 16,, 5.20 p.m.) ■ .-■-;■' (London, January 16:' • The Manitoban wheat growers are ; .feach giving the produce of one'acre to I', \ the needs .of the Empire.—("Times"' ;""■" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) THE ASSASSIN RAID ON EAST -,;,. ENGLISH TOWNS. ■ ">" (Rec. January 17, 2.10 p.m.) ■ -■.:■• London, January 16. ( Further deaths at Hartlepool have ; irraised the total death roll from the re--1 cent cold-blooded shelling of undefend--1 fed towns on the East English coast to '115. ;' _ .DYE FACTORIES IN BRITAIN. . •'(Rec.. January 17, 4 p.m.) . London, - January 16.' Sir Albert Spicer, the well-known free L; trader (head: oL;, the", firm, of Jas. ; Spicer and Sons, Ltd.)j seconded the j resolution adopted by the "London \ Chamber of Commerce, urging the establishment of aniline dye factories by • a guarantee of adequate tariff, protection for at least a decade after the termination of the war. '.'■■

The recommendation was on non-party • lines, as'the matter -was of vital na- ! tional importance. .' ''■

The scheme for founding a/State-aid-ed aniline manufacturing; combine "to fight the German monopoly reminds one ! again that the'great'discovery on which {the whole aniline .dye trade is founded I was made by an Englishman, Professor iPerkin (notes a contributor to the '"Manchester Guardian"). Thus in the .production of colours .from coal-tar, as in many other'things/'England was first in the field, and then, dropped out of it Air somo reason or other. ':-: r .i;.".'.;. c;i. GERMAN SPIES IN DUNKIRK. . ' (Rec. 'January 18, 0.5 a.m.) • . ' Paris, January 17. Ihe police at,' Dunkirk, have arrested 'one hundred people; and forced 2500' strangers to leave the -town, owing to '•spies donning French and British uniforms. .FRENCH CQURTESj'to BELGIUM. (Rec.. January 18, 0.5 a.m.) ■ •-,•- Paris, January 17. The French have offered Belgium the place of honour in the French Hall at the San Francisco Exhibition.