MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

, I (By Electric Telegraph —Copyright.; •j INDIAN (UNREST. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) I ALLAHABAD, January 7. j A wave of unrest has been prevalent 1 throughout India some months. There have been strikes, involving railways, 1 post offices factories. A strike of mill ! hands now at Bombay involves two I hundred thousand and has spread to ! Calcutta where thirty-five thousand ' come out on the first day, making a ! similar demand as at Bombay, for fifty per cent increase increase in wages, increased grain allowance, a- ten hour , ■

: day. The strikes came as a surprise, as no demands had previously been promulgated. Military were sent to Bombay in view of possible disturbances. ; Rioting occurred at one mile. The news 1 papers are compelled to cut down their ! issues owing to trouble with employees. The chief ■: cause of the industrial unrest is the high prices. The cost of living has increased one hundred per cent. Government however, are aware that Bolshevik agents have reached India, via Afghanistan in order to foment unrest. It is stated they have unlimited funds at their disposal. As a precautionary measure, Government issued an order declaring roubie notes illegal tender and anyone possessing them is liable to imprisonment. WASHINGTON, January 6. Newspapers state that Japanese troops in Siberia numbering one hundred thousand are moving upon positions east of .Lake Baikal, on a definite plan to check the Bolshevik.

AFRICAN TROUBLE. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) C9UETOWN, January 8. In connection with the official decision that the Germans employed at Himmerand deep mine at Johannesburg with whom British miners refused to work, was under agreement entitled to remain, the strike committee is dissatisfied and. lias issued a statement that many employees have decided to leave in preference to working with Germans.

STRIKE AT DURBAN. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) CAPETOWN, January 8. Municipal employees at Durban struck owing to the dismissal of the assistant. Town Clerk, The tramway and telephone services are suspended. AN APPRECIATION. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) ALLAHABAD, January 8. In appreciation of General Dyers service in quelling the recent rebellion in Punjab, the Sikh community had erected a memorial to him in the shape of a shrine in the Golden Temple at Amritsar,

BRITISH. TRADE, , LONDON, January 8. Board of Trade returns show imports for December were 169 millions and exports ninety millions respectively .compared with December 1918. Imports in 1919 were 1632, exports 798, million, representing an increase of 315 and 297 million compared with 1918. The principal increase for the year in imports was food 142 millions, raw materials 185, of which forty million expended on cotton and sixty-five on wool. Increases in exports were coo] forty millions, manufactures 226 including sixty millions worth of cotton goods, textiles and 48 of woollens.

ON A FLY. LONDON, Jail. 8. Parer left Hounslow aerodrome at 10.24 this monring. The weather is fine and wind strong. DEMOCRATIC PROTEST. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) NFJW YORK January 8. The Democratic National Committee at a meeting at Chicago to arrange the Presidential nominations denounced the arrogancy of the Republicans and demanded that the Senate cease political manoeuvring. The meeting repudiated a suggestion that United States joined the Allies in order to leave them in the lurch when peace and reconstruction became imperative.

A BIG COMBINE. (Received This Day at 11.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day

The Producers’ Conference has concluded. The principal business was the preparation of a memoranda and articles of association so that registration can be effected early ip February, when active operations will commence. Negotiations will follow for the purchase of three large organisations,—The Farmers’ Co-operative wholesale federation of New Zealand, the Federated Farmers Co-operative Association of South Africa and Australia and producers wholesale Jen-operative federation. It is arranged for a preliminary investigation to bo made by the representatives of co-operative men in London with a view to establishing a federation there for the dual object of buying and selling. The first issue of shares will he three thousand at £lO. The subscription will be confined to those companies 'engaged; Zn the distribution of primary produces.

A CONFERENCE. MELBOURNE, This Day. The Shipping Controller has announced a conference to endeavour to settle the marine engineers strike pull be held on Monday.