MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1917, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

PROMISED DISCLOSURES. SWEDISH DESPATCHES. . (Received This Dav at 10.15. a m.j NEW YORK, October 16. The New York Sun’s Washington correspondent, reports that the British authorities at Halifax intercepted a bag of dispatches from Sweden. These are now held at .Washington.The Swedish Minister pressed fojr their release, hut ho was informed that he must agree to disclose the contents thereof. A deadlock has arisen and the correspondent predicts sensational disclosures.

BRITISH WAR BONDo. Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. LONDON, October 16. Applications' for the new War Bonds last week were nearly thirty millions sterling. , PAPAL ACTION, Received, tWs day at 8.46 a.m. r ; ROME, October 16. ad is reported a consistory will probably be held’b&e in November, when it is expected the Pope will make a new peace move. '

SIR WILFRED LAURIER.

fAUSTRALIAN' * N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

. OTTAWA October 15. Sir Wilfred Laurier has definitely decided to retain the party leadership and fight the election. COST OF THE WAR. ' AUGUST FIGURES. (Received This Day at 10.15. a.m.) NEW YORK October 16. The New York World’s Washington correspondent says United States ■ is paying forty million dollars daily, or one fourth of the cost of the war. America’s expenditure is the highest, Britain’s is second, and Germany’s third. An authoritiatiye statistical estimate of the total cost for August 1918 is 155 billion dollars.