MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 February 1920, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright )

IN DISAGREEMENT. SYDNEY, February 11

The Australian workers’ union conference has passed a resolution disagreeing with the federal Governments affirmation that the principle of trades unionism and the effect of strikes was causing the present shortage in food supplies, the Conference pointing out that the wholesale growers are curtailing their orders for many lines.

ROSS-SMITH’S LATEST. BRISBANE, February 11. Ross Smith now contemplates a round the world flight in seventy days. A powerful Vickers machine is now being constructed with this end in view.

WOOL SALES. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON," February 9. The wool sales opened irregular. Fine merinos advanced five per cent and inferior declined five per cent.

KOREANS ATTACK JAPS

(Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, February 9

Moske, in a message via. Moscow, states bands of Koreans raised in Chinese territory crossed the frontier and attacked the Japanese in masses, the population joining the insurgents. The •Japanese retreated, and have evacuated northern Korea.

N.S.W. LOAN. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, February 9

It is expected that a large proportion of holders of maturing New South Whiles stock will accept the offer to convert into equal amounts at 5;(. They will receive a cash payment of .'SO per cent. The '‘financial News”' anticipates the loan will be rapidly over subscribed.

ALLEGED MURDER. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, February 9.

An extraordinary murder trial is proceeding at Edinburgh. A bluejacket named Jas Wooley, is charged with killing a German prisoner named Eversteg aboard the battleship Resolution at Scapa Plow, two days after the scuttling. The accused who was subsequently arrested, is a. deserter. A seaman gave evidence that Wooley said he was going to kill a German. Witness thought he was joking, but he extracted a cartridge from Woolcy’s rifle. Another seaman admitted that he knew a German prisoner had been killed, but he did not report the matter as lie had no love for Germans. Wooley’s father was the first witness for the defence. He said he had lost two sons within a week in the Somme lighting. Accused wUsi only sixteen when he joined the Navy. He was not the sort of hoy to think of violence when in his proper senses. A comrade of Wooley gave evidence that Wooley was drunk. The jury after an absence of twenty minutes brought in a verdict of not proven and accused was discharged.

■SMASH OF SHARES. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) MELBOURNE, February 11

There was a big Stock Exchange smash. Shares, of Badak tin syndicate paid to £lO yesterday touched £I2OO, and then dropped to £SOO owing to unfavourable boring reports.

TRIAL PRECAUTIONS. (Received this day at 8.40 a.in.) LONDON, February 10. .'Extraordinary precautions were taken at the trial of John Madden of Dublin, charged with murdering a policeman. Soldiers with fixed bayonets guarded all the approaches to the court. A squad guarded the door and twenty armed police occupied the gallery facing the judge.

JUTLAND PLEBISCITE. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, February 10

Tire plebiscite in the first zone of south Jutland, relating to self-deter-mination is being taken to-day. The voters number 100,000, 10 steamers, and many special trains conveyed ten thousand Slesvigcrs resident in Denmark into the zone, in order to vote. Their arrival caused a great patriotic demonstration.

A PECULIAR MESSAGE. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.)

LONDON, February 9

An Australian soldier named Albert James Fraser, a Mons veteran, who was discovered robbed and mutilated ,i!n Queen’s Park, reception ground, Glasgow, on the fourth, with his trouser pocket cut out and cut, away, and his boots missing. A tram conductor noticed two young men with hands bloodstained and pockets bulging, with it is believed, the dead man’s boots. Inquiries showed one was F'raser, and the other an Irishman named Janies Slain, who was associating with two young girls. All four lied to Ireland.