MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 January 1918, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

A DMIRALTY APPOINTMENT.

fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] & REUTER.] LONDON, Jan. 9. The Admiralty announces that Arthur Francis Pease has been appointed Second Civil Lord of the Admiralty. The new appointment is made to deal with increased administrative work. PRICE OF RABBITS. LONDON, Jan. 9. Tlie Food Controller-fixed 2s as the maximum price of wild rabbits or Is 9d for skinless including, imported. The price of part of a rabbit will bo lOd per lb, skinned and cleaned. CONSCRIPTING LABOUR. OTTAWA, Jan. 9. Government are planning to conscript alien and unskilled labour to work farms, mines and other necessary national industries, owing to the shortage of labour beginning to be felt. FEMALE FRANCHISE . WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. Mr. McAdo and Mr. Daniels have announced themselves in favour of woman suffrage. It is expected that Congress will pass a measure wliereon it will be referred to the States. PLAGUE IN CHINA. rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] LONDON, Jan. 9. , The “Morning Post’s' 1 Tientsin respondent says the the plague has broken out in Mongolia and. is spreading across Northern Shanshai. It now within easy distance of Pekin, where the Foreign Legations are pressing for a drastic plague campaign, hut owing to delay it is feared it may be too late to suppress the epidemic. WAR AIMS. LONDON January 9. The Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress Executive Labour Party decided to recommend the Allied countries, including America to meet in London on February 20th to consider the Allied war aims.

COST OF HANDLING. LONDON. Jan. 9. Sir T. Mackenzie speaking at the Bristol Branch, of the Colonial Tnstitute, advocated bringing eastern and western ports into direct communication with the overseas Dominions m order to lessen the cost of handling. BRITAIN AND JAPAN. LONDON, Jan. 9. The King has exchanged New Year messages with the Emperor of Japan, the warm friendship of the peoples being mutually offered and accepted., and the rank of Field Marshal has been conferred on the Emperor.