MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 October 1918, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

TAUSTRALIAN N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] HENDERSON IN DISGRACE. LONDON, Oct. 26. Mr A. Henderson attempted to board a Folkestone vessel to attend a Socialist Conference at Paris. The seamen by instruction from the Sailors and Firemen’s Union refused to sail if Henderson’s party were passengers, the seamen saying Henderson is doing his work with .the assistance of German money. Henderson decided to return to London but a taxi-cab man refused to drive him from the station and Henderson’s friends had to carry his lug- . gage.

LONDON, Oct. 26. Obituary.—Dr. Boyd Carpenter, ex Bishop of Ripon.

CONI- ERBNCE DECISIONS. LONDON, October 27,

The Conference of. intcr-Allied Parliamentary delegates passed a resolution in-favour of Allied joint industrial control of the aeronautical material, with a view of extensively bombing enemy territory, also to transfer enemy ships to replace the submarined merchantmen.

IMPERIAL WAR CONFERENCE. LONDON, October 25. . The Blue book shows that Mr Hughes (Australia) moved a resolution at the War Conference which is interpreted as contemplating a continuation of the War Cabinet, under another name. Sir ,T. G. Ward (New Zealand) said organic recognition must be given to U' fact, apart from the Imperial conferences that Imperial relations had reached a stage at which the Dominion governments were transacting business with the Imperial Government not in-ter-departmentally, but interrogntorily Therefore the head of the Dominion Government should be able to consult directly witli the British Prime Minister. There should bo a reorganisation on the whole Imperial machine. Hon. W. F. Massey, (New Zealand), said the Dominions would not he satisfied with sending representatives to England for a month or six weeks in each year. They would expect the'setting up of a Cabinet which would meet regularly in London. The real solution was .a resident Minister in London.

■Sir J .G. Ward was equally outspoken Fleeting visits of a few weeks were not giving the people of the overseas countries tlie position they ought to have in imperial matters concerning themselves. It was useless to think we were sharing destinies in a Cabinet when absent From it ten months in the year and irrevocable decisions vitally affecting the "Overseas Dominions had been definitely setHcd in our absence.

MAN POWER FIGURES. (Received This Dav at 10.35. a.m.) LONDON, Oet. 28.

Tho [Morning Post correspondent on the French front states the enemy on March 21st had two million eight hundred thousand bayonets, of which we have captured four hundred thousand and killed or seriously wounded eight hundred thousand, so that the Germans have now only sixteen hundred thousand, compared to two million Allied bayonets, on the west front, to which America is adding a quarter of a million monthly.

VERS All jLES CONFERENCE. (Received Tibi® Dnt at. noon.) NEW YORK, Oct, 28,

The United Press Washington correspondent states that official circles in Washington regards the German Note as an attempt- to force an early statement of the Allied armistice terms. The Note is viewed generally as a subtle effort to show United States the reforms are preceding while the world has no proof that the reforms are sincere, or have actually been given effect to. It was authoritatively learned to-day that Mr Wilson may- not reply to the German Note. The correspondentlearns that the question of an Armistice is now left in the hands of the military commanders of United States and Allies, subject to the approval of the Versailles Conference, which meets t-o-mor row. The next- move therefore will come from Versailles. ON T.AL MISSION. (Recel. I'! iiis Day at 1.5. p.m.) LONDON, Oet. 28. Montague. Secretary for India, has arrived on a special mission. A PEACEFUL REVOLUTION (Received this dav at 12.25 p.m) > WASHINGTON, October 28. Berne advices state there is a peaceful revolution in Hungary, where the National Council lias been formed to control Government.

KLONDIKE’S LOSS. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m) NEW YORK, October 28. The, .Now York “World’s” correspondent- 'at Dawson states some of the best, known residents at Klondika lost their lives in the Princess Sophia. More than a million dollars worth of gold was lost, when the ship foundered.