MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1920, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright ) RATES OF EXCHANGE. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, February Ist Foreign exchange rates: London on Paris 48.52. Stockholm 18.22. ■Christiania 10.92. Calcutta 31 pence. Montreal 393 cents. New York 342 cents. Wailii Junction shares 10,9 to 11/6. WOOL PRICES. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 1. Bradford is quiet and firm, with more interest in forty-sixes. FIG PRICES. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, February 1. It was announced in the Commons that figs will be decontrolled on 31st March. not wanted at gallipoij. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 1. Owing to the unsettled state of the country and lack of accommodation, the authorities depreciate visitors proceeding to Gallipoli before May 1921.

TO AMALGAMATE. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 1. The Council of the Colonial Institute, Overseas Club League of Britons Over, seas has ■approved of a scheme of amalgamation and are working out the details, INCREASED WAGES. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) 1 ' 'LONDON,' March 1. The Minister of Labour announces that the estimated increased wages in Great Britain since 1914 averaged 130 per cent, in United States ninety in the case of - men and seventy in the case of women. | FOOD CONTROL. , (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) _ LONDON, March 1. In tile Commons Mr MeCardy said he thought there was no likelihood of a complete removal of food control for at least- twelve months. ' A LONDON PROTEST. .’Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 1. Mounted police charged and dispers ed outside of Westminister, an excited procession of two thousand ex-soldiers and sailors who marched from Whitehall to interview the Premier regarding the dismissal of ex-service men from Government ( factories. Sticks, stones, and bottles were freely thrown. The police used their batons. Fifty-five processionists were injured and one inspector. A PEASANT TRAGEDY. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) WARSAW, March 1. A peasant from tho Ukranian border who was a- war prisoner for three year* returned home to see his parents and learned at tile village inn that his parents believed him dead. He 'decided firstly to visit- them incognito, knocked at the cottage and produced a roll of notes. He secured a night’s lodging as a wandering stranger. His parents did not recognise him and withdrew to a corner to hatch a murder for his money. His father went to the inn for volika and the innkeeper congratulated

him on his son’s return. The father ran home, but was too late, as his wife met him at the door with a bloodstained knife in her hand with which she had killed her son. EXCHEQUER BONDS. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 3. Mr Chamberlain stated that the 51 per centum Exchequer bonds issued totalled 160 millions, including sixty millions cash. The result was most satisfactory, exceeding expectations. A total of 198 million Exchequer bonds mature in 1920.