MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 January 1919, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

I AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] A WIND fall; LONDON, January 14. William Allison, a time-keeper at the North-western Company’s locomotive sheds at Rugby is stated to have inherited £50,(300 from a. pastoralist uncle who died in Australia. He saw a Melbourne solicitor’s advertisement three years ago seeking news of Allison s father who however was dead. A sistei answered the advertisement but there was no reply for a long time. Then he learned that their uncle’s fortune ot one hundred thousand was to be divided between his sister-and himself.

PLAGUE OF RATS. LONDON, January 16. A plague of rats in Britain is so serious that the Board of Agriculture has established a special department '.o cope therewith, under experts. TROUBLE IN FIUME. LONDON, January IG. The “Daily Express’’ correspondent at Geneva states an Innsbruck telegram [reports a serious situation between Slavs and Italians. A mobilisation has been ordered of south Slav nations next week, including Semiuite classes, who will endeavour to get into touch with the Czefclis in Prcsbury. The chief centre of the trouble is Flume whither the Italians are sending tlie Fleet, to support tlieir troops.

ITALY’S DESIRE. LONDON, January 16. “The Daily Telegraph’s” Milan cmrespondent says the great conference question for Italy, is the settlement of boundaries of Jugo-Slnvia and Italy. The depths to which the Italian people have been stirred is incredible to outsiders. A vast majority believe if Italian aims arc denied, Italy war sacrifices have been in vain. PORTUGAL’S CIVIL WARMADRID, January 17. According to frontier reports, the whole interior of Portugal is in a state of civil war. All communications have been suspended owing to the movements of the troops. Santa Rom is in the hands of the lc volutionaries, under Colonel Figuorido. He belongs to a military junta ot Oporto who are organising the movement, with an undoubted Bolshevist backing. LISBON. January 15.

The revolutionaries at Santa Rom, not having surrendered within the time limit, the loyal troops have surrounded the town. They have begun a bombardment. OBITUARY. LONDON, January 16. Earl Cowlcv is dead. AUSTRIAN I’RINCE WANTED. BERNE, January <>.

Tlit> Hungarian Government has demaiulcil the extradition of the I’rinee Louis Wimlischgi-aetz, for allegeu misappropriation of lour million kionei from secret service funds, and also for other alleged thefts of public money. Urinee Windischgraetz was confidential adviser to the cx-Emperor Charles and Inter acted in Switzerland as head of the counter revolution party, aiming to replace Charles on the Throne, which is another reason for Hungary’s desire for his extradition.

AMERICAN FREIGHTER SUNK. LONDON, January 17. The American freight boat “Lakie Erie” was sunk iji a collision jn Bristol Channel. disastro us ex plosion. NEW YORK, January 17. Thirty were killed and fifty injured in an explosion, at Boston in a tank containing molasses. sabotage” PLOTTER S. SAN FRANCISCO, Jaintar b. Forty-three I.W.W. anti-war agitators has been sentenced to from one t.n ten years imprisonment here. Sabotage plots were disclosed.

wheat on offer. LONDON, January H>. Mr Murdoch reports from Paris that Mr Hughes is endeavouring to sell Australian wheat to the Inter-Allied Committee charged with the duty c. feeding Europe. WHEAT OUTLOOK GOOD. LONDON, January 17. Authoritative estimates of tlie world’s exportable wheat show that after loci'! needs are supplied there will bo exci.isivo of the next American harvest, fro .i 2'} to 28 million .tons or including the American wheat 133 to 38 million tons. This is above the requirements, if the American and German yields arc normal, but they are expected to be below the average.

1,500 MISSING CANADIANS. OTTAWA, January 17. Fifteen hundred. Canadian soldiers who were reported missing, and presumably dead have been discovered alive in Germany since the armistice Many were missing since the second battle of Yores and were in German prisons but bad not been allowed tv communicate with their friends. In a number of eases, the lives of the missing men have remarried. It is‘ anticipated that legislation will be shortly introduced to settlo status of those, connubial tangles.

AMERICAN DISCHARGES. NEW YORK, Jan. !"• General March states that the American forces in France and Germany have been reduced to the minimum that is consistent with the national obligations. An increase in the number ot homebound. troops is foreshadowed. The discharges already ordered at home and abroad oxcocd a million.

DEMOBILISATION DIFFICULTIES LONDON, .Tan. 16. Sir Eric Geddcs, in a speech, dealt with demobilisation, and referred to the difficulties. Up expressed tho hope that the public impatience would not force the authorities to demobilize the forces in a wrong way. It was better tp have an employed army than a great deal of civil employment. There was no foundation for the belief that the Government was going to utilize the national factories in order to embark on industrial ventures. The Government would not manufacture any aritcle requiring a sales organisation.