MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1920, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

fAUSTRALIAN & N . 7. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

AFTER THE WOOL CLH\’

LONDON, April 13,

The “Daily Mail” understands the Government is negotiating with the Australian Government clip. London wool brokers now believe the Government is not anxious to purchase future clips, as they are still carrying largo supplies. It is stated the trade would resent further sales by Government, but new supplies must be judiciously controlled, to prevent a. glut. OBITUARY. CAPETOWN, April'l3. Obituary.—Sir Hamilton tGoold Adams, late Governor of Queensland, from pneumonia. He arrived with his wife and children for a holiday tour, intending to revist the prairies in Africa, where he served as an administrator and soldier,' but be contracted a fatal chill. FISHING ENQUIRY. WASHINGTON, April 13. The “Attorney-General has ordered an investigation into alleged violations of the American fishing laws off California, coast by Japanese, who are reported to lie using two hundred vessels inside the three mile limit.

REVOLUTION SUCCESSFUL. MEXICO CITY, April 13. The Estrada Cabrera Government at Guatemala has been overthrown, lhc revolutionists have formed a new Government under the Presidency of Cories Herrera.

A SPANISH FIASCO. -(Received This Day at 8 a.in.) MADRID, April 14. A fracas oclcnrrcd on Sunday at Morelas in Asturias between the civil guard and Socialist miners, the latter having murdered Catholic Socialists find wounded five for resuming work. Fourteen were killed and thirty four injured in Sunday’s fight. . V HOLT EXECUTED. fßecoived This Day at 8 a.m.) LJONDON, April 13. Holt, who was found guilty of murder, and for whom a reprieve was appealed for on the grounds that he was insane, and which was refused by the Home Secretary, has been executed. EMIGRATION POLICY. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 14. Christopher Turner in a paper read before the Colonial Institute on the organisation of migration within the Empire, says Australia, more than any other Dominion, is. adapted for the group system of settlement. The Imperial Government should create an Imperial policy of migration, should first he guided where it wais strategically needed. Australia above all requires population. Turner favours settlers owning farms, in- j stead of renting them. I

PRINCE AND KITCHENER. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, April 13. Sir George Arthur’s official life of Lord Kitichener, records that the Prince of Wales pleaded with Lord Kitchener to permit him to accompany the regiment to the front in 1914, saying—“Wlrat matter if I am shot. I have four brothers.” Lord Kitchener replied—“lf I were certain you would he shot I do not know whether I would be right in restraining you, but what I cannot allow is the risk of the enemy securing you as a prisoner. That chance exists until we have a settled line of battle.”

BIRDWOOD’S SUGGESTIONS (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, April 13. The Australian Press interviewed a high official in the Indian Office in reference to. General Birdwood’s suggestion for the interchange of Indian and Australian officers, who said it was highly important there should be tho closest co-operation between tho two armies, because in any future trouble eastward of Suez in which Britain was involved, it was inevitable the Indian and Australian Armies should fight shoulder to shoulder. It was important they should, ns far as possible, understand each other’s customs and methods of warfare. Tho Indian Army was a splendid training ground for Australian officers, and he hoped the pre-war arrangement of sending one New Zealander and one Australian to the Staff College at Quetta would he resumed and extended. At present an additional six New Zealanders were receiving

training in the field in India and they might form tho nucleus of a scheme such as General Birdwood proposed, but a definite suggestion must emanate from Australia. The authorities are at present considering details of tho proposal to have military missions from the. various Allies attached to Indian

Headquarters. Australia should he similarly represented, quite apart from any scheme of interchange of officers.

HERR MULLER’S VIEWS. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, April 13. Tlcrr Muller, speaking in the Assembly, expressed tho Government’s undying hostility towards all forms of militarism. PAPUA’S TROUBLES, SYDNEY, This Day. Cnpt. Finch, managing director of the Steamship Trading Coy lias arrived from Papua. He states the recent agitation there resulting from the meeting asking for the recall of the administrator, Judge Murray, was due largely to the administrator’s native policy, allegedly favouring the missions to the disadvantage of tho commercial community and also in regard to the incidence of taxation on native labour and failure to carry out the recommendation of the Royal Commision of 1907.