MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1918, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

I'AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] COST OF RECRUITING. MELBOURNE, December u. In the Senate, Mr Pearce stated the cost of recruiting, from January i 917 to October 1918, totalled £31830. OVERSEA SHIPPING. SYDNEY, This Day. Arrived—lhumata from Kaipara. Latest advices are that the Moeraki will probably sail for Wellington on Thursday and Manuka for Auckland on Saturday. SYDNEY, This Day. News has been received of a disastrous hurricane that recently swept New Hebrides and Banks groups, causing great damage to plantations. Many small vessels were lost. Newcastle—Sailed Orator for Lyttol ton. STRIKE SPREADING . COPENHAGEN December 17. The strike is spreading to Busr coalfields. Sixteen thousand are now out and a serious coal shortage is threatened. ROUMANIAN POLITICS. JASSY .December 17. Britain is forcing the appointment of a National Ministry. HOME RULE REQUEST . NEW YORK, December 17. Mass meetings at Sau Francisco demanded that President Wilson use his position at tlu> Peace Conference in favour of self-Governnicnt for~Treland. COUNTY CRICKET. LONDON December i 7. A meeting of the .County Cricket Advisory Committee decided to run the County Championship in 1919. Matches will be limited to two days. There is no change in the number of balls in the over. CHINESE SETTLEMENTS. PEKIN December IG. The recent Allied Aide de Memoirs to the Chinese Government has had a remarkable effect. At a meeting of the Cabinet, the President read a telegram, from the Canton Government proposing a peace ~-C-onfercnce at Shanghai. Tuauduehauau, leader of the Militarists, agreed that internal Peace ought to be restored. The Cabinet unanimously resolved to arrange a Conference immediately at Sydney with a view to securing a cessation of strife between north and south China as urged by tlio Allies. KING BORIS STILL REIGNS. WITH DEMOCRATIC MINSTRY. LONDON December 17. Telegraphic communication with Bulgaria has practically ceased for several weeks. News via Sofia however, shows that the German reports of the abdication and flight of King Boris who succeeded his father (Ferdinand), and the establishment of a Republican Government are quite untrue. Boris is still King. He has concurred willingly in the formation of a democratic Ministry, under M. Theadstaff . ALLIED MEN IN SILESIA. VIENNA Dec. 17. Several escaped French prisoners state that in Silesia English and French prisoners are still obliged to work in uninterrupted eight-hour shifts, under continued bad treatment, the only difference Hie armistice made being that whereas previously they received a certain pittance of food daily, now they receive nothing . THE RUSSIAN DISPUTE. NEW YORK December 17. Dispatches from Vladivostok say that the differences between General Semenoff and Admiral Kolchack are being adjusted through the efforts c f Franeo-Eritisli officials . PRINCE OF WALES. TO MAKE AN IMPERIAL TOUR. LONDON, December 17. One of the latest battleslips is now being refitted for the purpose of the Prince of Wales making an Imperial tour which is regarded as a fitting way whereby His Majesty may express bis deep consciousness of the great services renderd by them in the war to the whole Empire. AMERICA OUT FOR TRADE. WASHINGTON, December 17. President Wilson has approved of the attachment of business advisers to American,' Legations and Embassies, with the object of expanding American world-trade. RECORD WHEAT YIELD. WASHINGTON Decern be IG. • It is officially forecasted that Ihc United States winter wheat crop will total 765,000,000, bushels which will break the record by 80,000,000 bushels 55 Y.C’S FOR CANADIANS. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK Dec. 38. A total of 55 Victoria Crosses have been awarded Canadians during the war.