MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1919, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

:iJy Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) .JAPAN’S LATEST BATTLESHIP. TOKIQ, November 7. Tile 40,000 feon battleship Narato, which is said to be the largest in the ;■ pH!, hill he launched on the ninth of November. She is equipped with 16in amis, and will have a speed of 35 knots. She will also carry several aeroplanes. The construction of the Kaga, a sister ship, will be begun when the Narato is completed. BULGARIA’S RESPONSIBILITY SOFIA, Nov. 10. Two hundred members of the Ratio s layoff Party have been arrested in con neetion with responsibility for the .war. The number includes an ex-Minister, ‘ Tontcheff, .General Betroff, and most oft the former members of the Radpslayoff > .Cabinet. Negotiations ar.e to be initiated for the extradition of the ex-Tsar Ferdin-: and, aslo ox-Generalissimo Jakloff, and j ,ex-Premier Radoslavolf. - 1

THE WAZJRI TRIBESMEN. GIVEN BRITAIN’S TERMS. ALLAHABAD, Nov. 10. General Climo lias presented the Bri dish terms to- the Waziri tribesmen. jj[c did so on the 9th at Dar^oni. "Thirteen aeroplanes circled pvorhend .during the proceedings. The Waziris'were [given eight days t<. .consider the terms, the reply to w,liib [imist be presented at Dakka Khod. TJhir post is not at present occupied by tin British and it means that the Briiis; forces: will have to march to Dakka Kliod between now' and the eight day; nllowed. This move has considerably discon certed the Waziris, as the post is t strategic importance. During the past few days, aeroplane 1 have been dropping leaflets over Tochi advising the tribesmen to remove thewomen and children.

POULET’S STEADY HEADWAY LONDON, Nov. 10

M. Poulet, the Frenchman, is now re ported to have left Bundarabbas for Karachi in India, and to be .following the postal-route. He has passed Chahbar.

SILVER STILL RISES. LONDON ,Nov. 10

A further record has been reached in the price of silver, which is now T G 8 t- 8o per pound. Tho shilling is now worth twelve and twenty-three forty-fourths pence.

OIL INSTEAD OF COAL. NEW YORK, November 9. It is reported that several of the larger steamship companies are planning to convert their vessels into ml burners In order to avert fuel difficulties n« the result of any coal shortages, lit is estimated that' the conversion will affect 1750 vessels, and will save 250,000.000 tons of coal yearly.

’RESOLUTION OF RETURNED MEN WELLINGTON, November 11.

The Wellington Returned Soldiers Association to-day passed a resolution as follows: —“That, recording the first ;,::niversary of the cessation of hostilities in the great European war, this honours the memory of .those men who laid down their lives in" the fight- for freedom, and reaffirms its determination to see that- adequate provision is made for all their dependents.”

BRITISH RETRENCHMENT. LONDON, ’ November 7. It is officially announced that the stqffs of the Government Departments |ipve been reduced by eight thousand since September 1. The staffs now number 400,000 civil servants.

POLICEMEN STRIKE. NEW YORK, Nov. 9. Seven hundred policemen are on strike.

GOLD FOR JAPAN.

TOKIO, November 9

As the sovereign is worth only 16/the British Government is sending ten millions of gold to Japan to redress the exchange.

COTTON CAPITALISTS. (Received This Day at 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, November 9

•The directors of J. P. Coates are seeking tho shareholders authority to capitalise 101 millions of reserves, making the total capital 201 millions. They point out that the scheme does not increase the Company’s but it reduces the apparently high dividends, which the public are adversely criticising.

CANADIAN .POLITICS. OTTAWA, Nov. 10.

The Peace Session of Parliament lias adjourned. It ratified the acquisition of the Grand Trunk Railway. Government passed a prohibition act making a hone dry. Canada possible, on the initiative of the Provincial Legislatures. TURKISH EPIDKjVIIC. (Received This Day. at 9.25 a.rn.l WASHINGTON', Nov. 9. Advices from Constantinople state that various . epidemics including cholera, and typhus, are raging in several parts of Turkey, as a result of neglect and inertia of the Turkish authorities. Health conditions in Smyrna are improving, because of the measures taken by the Greek military authorities.

BRAZIL DECISION. (Received this dav at 9.20 a.m.) RIO ,DE .TANERIO, Nov. 9

The Chamber of Deputies approves pi the Treaty, which now goes to the Sen ate.

FOOD PRICES. | (Received This Da.v at 10.35. a.m.) | LONDON, Nov. 9. j The newspapers foreshadows the reduction of two-pence per pound in the controller price of bacon a reduction in the price of coal and increase in the weekly butter ration to 1J ounces and the release from bond of a greater sup- j ply of whiskey. The Labour Party is inaugurating a campaign in favour of State Control of Liquor. Mr McCurdy replying to meat im-porters,-cabled on the sth, said if ,tho , control were removed, probably there ' would bo a temporary fall in the price of imported meat, owing to heavy stocks arriving. Quite ample supplies of homegrown were available. It is not to the interest of the consumer to snatch at a purely temporary reduction, but assured present and future supplies at the j lowest reasonable level. Mr McCurdy admits th 0 world’s prospective exportable surplus is 1250,C00 tons, but if the restrictions on consumption are removed, Britain would require 1,140,000 not 750,000 next year, and the continents a J minimum of half a million. Therfore I there would be no normal surplus of meat. The removal of control would in- i volve a risk of higher prices in all the » world’s markets.

EGYPTIAN ARMY INCREASE. (Recefved this day at TO.Id a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 9. Government have dee) tied to increase the (Egyptian 'Army by ,tw;o divisions _qf native troops. AERIAL SCHEMES. . ' ’ LODON, Nov. 9. General Sykes is arranging R> visit the Dominions ,preparatory to carrying out big aerial schemes connecting England an(l the Dpqiinipns.