MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 March 1920, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

(By Electric Telegraph-Copyright ) * BRITISH BONDS LOAN. LONDON, March 4. The “Morning Post” announces cash subscriptions for the 5=4 per cent Exchequer bonds totalling £53,550,000, exceeding the most sanguine estimates, hhis does not include subscriptions though banks and post offices. The newspapers attribute the success mainly to the option given regarding th e time for subscriptions. IDLE TIN WORKERS. LONDON, Feb. 1. 43,000 tin workers in South Wales have been rendered idle by a strike, in consequence of a claim of nineteen thousand men for a forty per cent, increase in wages, owing to the high price of tin plates. AN AMERICAN PROPOSAL. . NEW YORK, Feb. 1. Mr Kenyon proposed in the Senate that United States acquire the Bermudas ,in partial liquidation of the British war debt. THE TERRIBLE TURK. PARIS, March 1. Although the French occupy Celicia, Government Jins not received confirmation of the massacre. SOCIALIST RESOLVE. PARIS, March 1. The Socialists Congress at Strasshurg affirmed the reconstitution of the internationals and rejected a proposal to give adhesion to Moscow internationals. 31R ASQUITH WELCOMED. LONDON, March 1. Hon H. Asquith, on taking his seat, Was warmly welcomed in the Commons and with a great popular reception in the streets. JAP LABOUR TROUBLE. LONDON, March 1. Tho “Daily Mail” says serious labour troubles have broken out in Japan. The situation is causing considerable uneasiness. BRITISH GOLD. NEW YORK,-March 4. It is reported that the British are now preparing to despatch forty million sterling in gold to the United States to rectify the exchange.

TIN PROFITEERS’ HAUL. LONDON, March 3. There is a tin industry strike dm to the big profits now made in + in goods. Tin is over £4OO a ton. There are 43,000 tin workers out in South Wales. The strike is in consequence of s claim by 19,000 men for a 40 per cent increase in wages. The men point to the present high price of tin plates t:. show that the employers can well afford a riso. CHAMPION BOXER ARRESTED. NEW YORK, March 4. A telegram from Los Angelos states that Jack Dempsey, the world’s cHampiqn boxer has been arrested, vnd charged with evading the wartime conscription enactment. \ LINER ARRIVES. HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Mar 4. The liner St Pnul has arrived. The passengers were transferred to the steamers Cedric and Canada.