MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1919, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) ACBTBALIAN & N.Z. CABLK ASSOCIATION M.C.C. INVITATION. LONDON, September 24. The Marvlebone Club has telegraphed to Australia inviting a representative cricket team to visit Britain in 1920.

AIR FLIGHT PRIZE. VANCOUVER, September 24. Norman Yarrow, head of Yarrows Ltd, of England, and British Columbia, has offered £50,000 sterling as a Prince of Wales prize for the first Canadian airship to make a flight across the Pacific from Vancouver island to Japan, aeroplanes to be barred.

AN AIR DERBY. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, Sept- 25

The New York Aero Club lias announced plans are completed for an international aerial derby round the world, the prizes probably aggregating more than a million dollars. A special committee shortly leaves to arrange the routes and landing places, with local committees in different parts of the world. ARGENTINE! FINANCE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 25. A dispatch from Buenos Aires states the Finance Committee of the Chamber of Deputies will publish a majority report, authorising Government to extend two hundred million dollars credit to Italy, France and Britain, of which seventy-five per cent will be expended in the purchase of Argentinian cereals. Tlie loans will extend over two years at 5J per cent. , LENOIR ILL. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, September 25. The confrontation of Caillaux and Le Noir was ordered, but Le Noir is seriously ill.

allenby’s speech. (Received day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, September 25

Confirming General Allenby’s recollection Admiral Dampier (Mayor of Dover) states. General Allenby mentioned the Australians in his Dover speech.

PROFITEERING. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, September 25. The Board of Trade investigations •revealed excessive profits in certain branches of the wool industry, in some cases 400 per cent. Tile Board ordered the Profiteering Department to take ac. tion.

STEEL STRIKE ENQUIRY

IReCeivad This Day at 8.45 a.m.)

WASHINGTON, September 25

Giving evidence before the Congressional investigation of the steel trust strike, Fitzpatrick, the men’s representative said that the steel trust had raised large funds to prevent trades unionism establishing itself in industry. When the unions were formed the trust reduced the working hours and increased wages, in an effort to forestall labour organisation of conditions in industry.