MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 March 1919, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

SOVIET IN ARGENTINE. NEW YORK, March 19. Dispatches from Buenos Aires state that thirty-four prominent business men, in a circular, declare that- a Soviet controls the port and the country and also the foreign trade. They intimated that the foreign agitators would be deported. CANADIANS LABOUR. NEW YORK, March 19. OTTAWA, March 19. Western Canadian labour unions at a Conference at Calgary, voted to seven their affiliation with the American Federation of Labour. The unions will henceforth try to organise by separate industries. The question will be submitted to all local unions for adoption.

IN KOREA. WASHINGTON, March' 19. Despatches from Peking say an American missionary from Korea ’stated that during the past decade, Koreans have been brutally treated. Women and children were beaten by the Japanese authorities, who charged American missionaries with teaching Koreans ideas of individual rights. Japanese soldiers heat two American women missionaries and the American Consul at Seoul and were arrested by Japanese but later were released. Despatches from Tokio say the independence demonstrations in Korea continue. PROPAGANDA IN BRITAIN. LONDON,, March 23. The Government organ, the “Daily Express’’ states:—The British authorities have discovered a Bolshevik plot to land emissaries and vast quantities of literature in Britain. The authorities have prevented a number of the agents from landing, but it is believed that much of the literature has been smuggled into London.

DERELICT U-BOAT. AMSTERDAM, March 23. A steam trawler lias brought ill a large new German submarine, which she picked up without a crew in the North Sea.

RAILWAYS IEN ’ S TR 0 UI3LE. LONDON, March 23 The, representatives of the Railwaymen conferred with Cabinet Ministers for four hours on Sunday. The Conference finally adjourned till Monday. There are considered to be now good prospects of a settlement. BANK PROFIT. (Received this day at 9.25 a. •*.) LONDON, March 18. The Rank of Australasia profit "is £325,055.

TALLOW STOCKS. LONDON, March 18. A fair quantity of tallow is on passage and is selling, good beef 64/. to (314/4, mutton 64/-; mixed 51/-. Brokers hope to resume auctions in May. BRITISH BIRTH RATE. EXCEEDED BY DEATHS, fßeceived This Dav at 9.31). a'.ni.j LONDON, March 18. The births for the fourth quarter of 1918 in England and Wales were 161,775; and deaths 241,218. It is the first occasion on which the deaths have exceeded the births since registration began. Influenza was largely responsible, but there would have been an excess of deaths, without influenza. The figures for the whole of 1918, were births 662,773; deaths 611,991. The average annual excess of births over deaths for the previous five years was 237,664. The birth rate in 1918 was 17.7 the lowest recorded.

A LIBERAL MOVE . (Received This Day at 9.15 a.m.l • LONDON, March 24. Manchester Liberal Federation lias formulated its own political scheme on (advanced progressive lines. Though it disavows opposition to the central organisation it is believed in some quarters that it marks the beginning of a new phase of British Liberalism. QUESTION OF INDEMNITY. LONDON, March 24. The question of indemnity will he for mally raised in the Commons this week, because a section of the Unionist members arc dissatisfied with the Government’s pronouncements. ARRIVAL. LONDON, March 18. Arrived at Colombo.—Zealand in from New Zealand.