MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 July 1919, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

(By Electric Telegraph —Copyright.; .AUSTRALIAN A N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

FOOD PRICE REGULATION. LONDON, July r 4

Speaking on the cost of living in the House of Commons, Mr Roberts (Food Controller) stated that the meat control will be continued in Britain during all the coming winter. This was necessary to ensure that there will be reasonable prices, and an equitable distribution of the imported supplies of meat.

CABINET AND IRELAND. LONDON, July 14. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Bonar Law, when pressed to say something definite in regard to what might be the policy of the Government in regard to Ireland replied “that it was not desided to postpone making a declaration, hut Government wished to suggest a policy that would have some chance of success. A FEDERAL LUNCHEON. LONDON, July 14. Sir G. Wade, (Agent-General for NewSouth Wales) tendered a luncheon to Mr B'raddon, (formerly Australian Federal representative in America), at the Trocadero, in London. Sir G. Strickland, (ex-New South Wales Governor), General Monash, the Right Hon. Mr Amery, the Agents-General, and many representatives of New South Wales attended. ,

Mr Braddon, replying to the toast of America’s war effort. He paid a tribute to the kindness the Americans had shown to the Australian troops, who had readily made friends with the American soldiers.

SIR T. MACKENZIE. LONDON, July 14. Sir T. MacKenzie gave a luncheon to tht successful N.Z. sculler, Hadfield, and the N.Z. oar crew. Edinburgh University is to confor a Doctorship of Laws on Sir T. MacKenzie. LOAN FOR IRELAND. NEW YORK, July 14. Mr De Valera, the Sinn Fein President, has renewed privately at Chicago an attempt to raise a loan for the Irish cause.

AMERICA AND IRELAND. LONDON, July 14

Mr Braddon, the Australian Federal Government’s official who has during the past couple of years been stationed at Washington as Australian representative, referred to Anglo-American relations in a speech at a luncheon tendered him by the New South Wales Agent-General, Sir G. Wade. Mr Braddon said lie wished to urge the necessity for their doing something to combat anti-British propaganda, which, unfortunately, had always been active in America. The Irish question also, ho said, was always an irritant in the United States. This was largely because of the great influence of the Irish vote there. Many of the utterances on the subject of Ireland, however, were only for home consumption. Nevertheless, he added, the utterancs on the Irish question are hindering any complete understanding being reached between the English speaking peoples.

1 lie added, the utterancs on the Irish 3 question are hindering any complete un- . derstanding being reached between the . English speaking peoples. I A NEW COMPANY. R*V(-iveil Tui« r-.iv 05. am ) LONDON, July 15. ' Henry Gardner and Coy, has been registered with a capital of a million of which 650,000 is issued, fully subscribed. The principal shareholders are Garnate Brothers and Herbert Leon. Henry Gardner is cx-Chairinan of ATcrtons, cabled on 30th. May. REVOLTING CRIMES. (Received this day at 11.25 n.m.) LONDON. July 15. Revolting crimes and treachery was revealed at the court martial of Fratel, an Eurasian warrant officer, charged with gross inhumanity and neglect to Kut prisoners at Bagstsclie hospital. It is alleged that Fratel kicked a <lying man, while the dead were flung by Greek orderlies into the mortuary, most ly naked, and afterwards buried in shallow graves whence jackals dug them up and gnawed their bodies. Tlie prosecution suggested that Fratel, believing the British defeated, sought to ingratiate himself with tho Turks.