And Foreign

Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1917, Page 3

And Foreign

iPEK PBESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT,] LONDON, Dec. 29 ... The year’s increase in. the' National Debt is over £1,000,000,000. OTTAWA, Dec. 29.—Obituary: The death is announced of the postmaster'General,. Mr Casgrain. LONDON, Dec. 30.—The SolicitorGeneral, He wart, has been knighted. Cheese Prices. LONDON, Dec. 2V. (Melbourne Argus Service.) It is understood that the ultimate price of New Zealand cheese has been settled. The price ia unlikely to quite reaoh tenpenco. , ' BOMB, Dec. 29. The Institute of Agriculture *tates that the yield of wheat of sixteen countries in the northern hemisphere and two in the southern is 74.7 per cent of the 1915, yield, and 91.2 of the average from 1909 to 1914. The Argentine-yield is only 52 per cent of the past five years’ average. [LONDON TIMES SEP,VICE. —COPYRIGHT.] London, Deo 29 A correspondent at Jassy reports the National Government has been formed including Take Jonescu, without portfolio. The Premier remains in office.

A FEARFUL FiRE. 46 Wcmen Burnt. [REUTER’S , SERVICE.—COPYRIGHT.! (fliecsived Jan 2, at .11.50 a.m ) ■ Montreal Jan 1 Forty-six women were burned to death by the destruction of a female lunatic asylum at Ss Ferdinand, Megantic couutry. The outbreak occurred at night time and there was an uncontrollable panic. Many leaped from high windows acd others crouched near windows until they wera inciasratad. * The fcerapentur 0 was twenty below zaro and the ’ hydrants were frozen.