LATE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1919, Page 1

LATE NEWS.

A fSTIt ALIAS’ A .N.S. CABLE ASSOCIATION HIGH .COTTON PRICES. TQKIO, Nov. >l9. The Japanese .Government has prohibited the export of cotton with a view to checking the soaring of prices, which are now 360 per cent above.the pre-war rates. HUGE PRICES IN LONDON. LONDON, Nov. 19. The West End shopkeepers assert .that .record Christmas shopping has started. The great stores there are already as crowded.as in December of other years, _ ’ Fifty pounds each is being given jfoi ornate hand hags. As .much .as 240 guineas each is being paid for dressing bags. . f There are remarkable .displays of, 'costly underclothing. ‘Two hupdred guineas.is.the price for furppats. No : one seems to know where tjm W°fi u y comes from, but the shop Keepers surmise it is from , the , war profiteers .who hitherto have carefully", invested tfiem earnings and kept Diem quiet. Now they are allowing their wives to spend and the wear and-tear of the w.arperipd is being replenished.

THE NEW THEORY. LONDON, November 19. Professor Turner states that.Dr Einstein’s discovery .as .to gravity, light and space should be,tested to fullest degree with better-instruments. He says a Committee pf. the .Royal Astrpnojnical Society are now discussing plans for a more elaborate observation of the next solar eclipse that will be favourable, which i s that , occurring in .1922. The observations will be mado in Westralia and Christmas Island and elsowliore.