MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 February 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) ; - SHARE MARKET. i (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. '2. Shares—Waihi Junction, buyers, 11s 6d; sellers, 12s 6d. FOREIGN (EXCHANGE. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 2. Foreign exchanges on Paris -17.0-3; Stockholm 18.12; Christiania 19.65; Montreal 393 cents. Owing to flielndia Council's decision Calcutta is nominally quoted at anything between 30 and 36 pence. NEW YORK, Feb. 3. Sterling exchange is 336 cents.

BREWERS’ MOVE. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 3. Brewers, with a view to making licensed premises more attractive, have decided to develop the catering side of the business, offering architects a prize of £SOO for the, best town public house or country inn. REPRIEVED FROM EXECUTION. PARIS, Feb. 3. Louis Guaspere, also of the German espionage service, was to have been shot with Funck, but at the last moment he adopted the ruse of 8010 and iLenoir, declaring he had important revelations —,Ve. 'His execution was therefore deferred.-

A FINANCIAL MOVE. BRUSSELLS, Feb. 3. TJie Government has prohibited -traffic in foreign bills, except genuine (commercial transactions. This prevents gambling, which was prevalent, owing to the exchange crisis. REVOLUTION IN HONDURAS. (Received This Dav at 11.20. a.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 A telegram from Managua states a revolution has broken out in Honduras. Tfie Revolutionists were defeated and are retiring to Mioaragha to the fron-

• CHARGE OF PETTY SPITE. (Received this day at 11.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, February 3. Mr Daniels, before the Senate Investigation Committee said Admiral Sims owing to, personal spite omitted Admiral Wilson’s name from the decorations list, while recommending junior officers under Admiral Wilson’s command.

A STERN ATTITUDE. (Received This Day at 11.20. a.m.) PARIS, February 3. The “Petit Parisien” states that the Allies will firmly insist ou the surrender of the war criminals. The reply to the Dutch note will be couched in the 'strongest terms. 1 The newspaper understands- that if Holland persists in a refusal to surrender the Kaiser, diplomatic relations will probably be broken off and a maritime blockade imposed. , •

EULOGISING GENERAL HAIG (Received this day at 10.15 " - , LONDON, Feb. 4.

In an Army Order recording the abolition of general headquarters in Great Britain, the Army Council expressed the high appreciation of the services of General Haig rendered to the Empire. Never in the history of the British Empire has one officer-been charged with so momentous n responsibility. No other British commander, excepting Wellington, had brought to a victorious conclusion a campaign on

the issue of which luing the very eixstence of the state. The order emphasises that Gjeneral Haig remains on the active, list, and expressed the hope that he will have a further, long successful career of public usefulness.

* IVAR CRIMINALS. (Received this day at 10.20 a.m •' ' LONDON, Feb. 3. ‘(The Echo de Paris” states the Germans accused of war crimes include Prince Ruppreclit of Bavaria, for deportations in North France, the Duke of Wurtemburg for ordering civilian massacres at Namur and elsewhere, Count General Von.Kluck for murdering hostages at Senlis, and shooting civilians at Aersehot, Von Biielow and -Von Mackensen for burning villages and executing civilans, Von der Lancken toi the murder of Nurse Cavell and Capt. Fryatt, Von Capelle for ordering subinpine, outrages Von Sanders for peimitting masacres of Armenians and Syrians ; Major Von Goebtz, Lieut Rodger and General Von Cassell for acts of cruelty at Madgeburg, Ruhleben and Dseberit/. camps respecting; Von Manteulenee for permitting the slaughter of civilians at Louvain ; submarine commanders Werner, Valeiitiner and Forest ner for sinking hospital ships.

INDIAN STRIKE ENDS. (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) - BOMBAY, Jan. 3. # The mill strike lias collapsed. The bulk of the mills have resumed presumably on tiie tenns offered by the mill owners-

A BIG QUAKE. (Received this dav at 1.30 p.m.) BUENOS AYRES, Feb. 2. An earthquake of unprecedented intensity is reported from Minos region in Brazil,