MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1920, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

•fiy Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SPECIAL PRESS ENV OY. LONDON, March 5. lion Lloyd George urged the desirability of independent press representatives accompanying the League of Nations Commission of Inquiry proceeding to Russia. It is understood, this is being arranged.

LINER ON GOODWIN SANDS. LONDON, March's

An unknown liner is aground, high and dry, on a dangerous part of Goodwin Sands. Tugs and salvagers are standing by. SAFELY OFF. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 5. The unknown steamer on Goodwins sands, cabled earlier, apparently a. Norwegian, was refloated. PORTUGESE DENIAL. LONDON, March 4. The Portugal Legations in Paris and Madrid deny the rumours of a revolution in Lisbon. They declare the strike is the only event of any consequence.

A LOAN PROPOSAL

LONDON, March 5

Lord Buclcmaster, in the Lords, proposed instead of a capital levy which would ruin industry, the State should borrow money and give securities in exchange, bearing one per cent, interest If the loan lasted thirteen years, the State’s saving in interest would amount to twenty-five hundred millions.

PRINCESS’S WARDROBE. PARIS, March 5

, An amazing sale was held of the late Princess Aibanoffo’s wardrobe. She had collected a prodigious number of garments including three hundred tea gowns ranging to fifty years back. Many were unopened and unworn, and would have been sold at any price but for the war. Two hundred sterling was paid for sets of a dozen undergarments. Parcels of five sheets sold fpr £IOO sterling.

NORTHERN FOOTBALL TEAM. LONDON, March 0. The Northern Union footballers will

sail by the Naldera for Australasia

GERMAN NEEDS. PARIS, March 8

“Le Petit Journal’s” Berlin correspondent states that the German Government has drawn up an economic memoranda for submission to tile Peace Conference, showing that in order to obtain food supplies Germany needs a loan of forty-two milliards of marks m god. The memorandum also asks !'•>' the modification of the Rhine occupancy terms, and finally declares that if these terms are not- accepted Germany will declare herself bankrupt by next autumn.

WELSH MINERS DEFIANT). ' LONDON, March 8. The Welsh miners, at their conference, .at Cardiff, have decided to demand an immediate increase of 40/a, week, to meet the increased cost of living. They 'also decided to support a p-o----posal by the Central Trade Union for a strike in favour of the nationalisation of the mines. AMBASSADOR’S SALARY. LONDON, March 8.

Sir Auckland Gcddes receives * «■«?- arv, as British 'Ambassador, of £2,500 but with an additional entertainment allowance of £17,500 a. year.

MARCONI’S PROPOSALS. (■Received 'lbis Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 9. Marconi’s empire scheme of a wireless net work proposes trunk and brand routes covering the whole Efnpire, all ships between latitudes sixty noitn and fifty south and also separate transmitting, and receiving stations. iTe proposes duplexing also an arrangement for linking sea and air mobile stations with fixed stations, chosen after consul, tation with the fighting Service. The proposals include Australian routes ua Singapore and Vancouver, two main trunk stations, each the same in Australia, connecting New Zealand by a main feeder station, also feeder stations at each important city of the Commonwealth. All employees except menials to be British born. A SHIPPING MOVE. (Received This Day at 8- a.m.) LONDON, March 8. The “Times” s ays shipping companies are combining to increase outward freights at least fifty per . cent. Some owners assert they are considering the laying up of ships owing to the fabulous cost of bunker coal, which is quoted at 155/- in London, compared w : th 15/8 pre-war. WOMEN JURORS. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON,' March 8. The “Daily Mail” states ‘the anthori. ties have decided to empanel enfranchised women to serve the purpose of the high courts mostly in divorce cases.

MORE MASSACRES. (Received This Dav at 8 a.m.) LONDON, March. 5. It is reliably learnt from Beirut that Turks massacred fifteen thousand Armenians recently in Cilicia. HOUSE OF LORDS DECISION. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 5. Tlie House of Lords restored the death sentence cabled on December 19th holding drunkenness no excuse unless a man was so drunk as to bo incapable of criminal intent.

COIN CASE SENTENCE'S. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, March 5.

All the male defendants in the coin oafee, cabled on January 16tli were sentenced to six months and the woman bound over.

AIR ESTIMATES. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.)

LONDON, March 8

The Air Estimates are twenty-ono million sterling and personnel 29,730, exclusive of India.

DIRECT ACTION FAVOURED. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) > 'LONDON, March 8. Miners, by two hundred thousand majority, favoured direct action in the event of Government refusing nationalisation. Scottish Miners Conference at Glasgow decided to support the national stoppage of mines at the 'British Miners Federation Conference in London, next week. A TANKER MISSING. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 10. The tanker Cunadist, with a. crew of forty is believed to ibe lost, It was due at Baltimore from Cuba on March : 2nd.

AMERICAN PROPOSALS. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) I NEW YORK, March 10. Mr Daniels before tile Congressional Naval Affairs Committee advocated making Guam, Ambucnji and Heligoland and the construction of a great submarine and aviation destroyer bace at Hawaii., 4 Mr Daniels said our friends to-day may be our enemies to. morrow. ROUMANIA, PLEASED. (Received this day at 9.30. a.m.) LONDON, March 8. The “Morning Post” understands the Supreme Council has agreed to the union of Bessarabia with Roumania, which will give much satisfaction to Roumania. . SITUATION GRAVE. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) ... / MADRID, March 8. Ihe situation in Portugal continues grave. The strike of public officials is now supported by metal workers, electricians and others.

TURKISH CABINET. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, March 8. General Salivpasha, a former Minuter has been invited to form a Cabinet. OAILLAUX TRIAL' FATE, OF HIS FRIENDS

LONDON, Feb. 28

In response to", the questions of M. Bourgeois regarding bis intimacy with many men who have since been tried for espionage or treason, M. Cnillaux was moved to tears. He explained that after his wife's trial for shooting M. Calmette lie was deserted, and was so completely alone that lie was grateful to the few friends who stood hv him.

The Paris correspondent of “The Times” points put tljat it is curious to reflect upon the fatality which has attended Cfiillaux’s acquaintances. Of the men mentioned, Duval, Lenoir, and 8010 have been executed, Almeyreda committed suicide in prison Malvy was exiled, Monier disgraced, and Goldsky and Landau are convicts.