MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1919, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) TAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] NATIONALISATION. LONDON, Juno 25. There is a suspicion in Conservative circles regarding the Government’s attitude towards schemes for nationalisation. It is suspected that the Communications Bill is the forerunner of proposals for the nationalisation of the railways. Two hundred Unionist members of - the House of Commons, will on Monday next meet Mr Bonar Law, to urge that the Communications Bill shall not apply to docks and harbours. Opposition to the nationalisation of the coal mines is increasing inside and outside of Parliament, and a split in the Unionist Party is regarded as unavoidable if the Government Justice Sankcy’s report. SINN FEIN CAMPAIGN. , NEW YORK, June 24. Mr E. De Valera, the Sinn Fein leader, interviewed here, stated that the Irish Independence Party intended to extend their campaign for Ireland’s independence to Canada and Australia. They also intended to float a loan in these countries. .

NEW HEIGHT RECORD. «. PARIS, June 25. Lieut. Casale lias made a new altitude record. He rose to a height of 32,825 feet. He encountered 80 degrees Fahrenheit of frost. A GENEROUS ACT. LONDON, June 25.

The airmen, Alcock and Brown, have given £2OOO from their ‘ : Daily Mail ” prize to the workmen who built their aeroplane.

BRITISH LABOUR, s LONDON, June 25. At the British Labour Party’s Conference at Southport, the President, Mr McCurk, said that Labour disapproved of the compromises and violations of principles that exist in the Peace Treaty, Labour, he said, must insist ou the maintenance of the world’s peace. The united efforts of the workers in all countries of the world would be directed to secure a revision of the Treaty, so as to make ,t a strict embodiment of fundamental democratic

principles. Mr McGurk said Labour disapproved of tlic operations in Russia. He added that, the perpetration of conscription in Great Britain would be opposed by Labour. It would be a serious thing for Britain, he said, if the Government’s folly should result j in the strike weapon being used for j political purposes. They would de--1 plore the prospect of having to take industrial action against the Government, and thus let loose anarchy. I FRENCH SOCIALISTS BLOCKED, j LONDON, June 25. I Two French Socialists, en route to the Labour Conference at Southport, were stopped at Folkestone. Italian, Swedish, and other foreign delegates attended. end of world prediction. LONDON, June 25. The Rev. H. W. Wobb-Peploe, prebendary of St-. Paul’s Cathedral, London, caused consternation at a church gathering by predicting the end of the . f*world on December 31st, 1929. WOMEN AND TILE LAW. LONDON, June 25. The House of Lords has passed tlio third reading of a Bill entitling to become barristers, solicitors and Justices of the Peace. GERMAN CAPTAIN HANGED. LONDON, .June 25. • Some of the German sailors hanged their captain on a ship at Scapa- Flow irior to scuttling the ships.