MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1920, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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LONDON, April 15

The Bristol and Dominions Producers Association tiro issuing £60,000 shares making the total capital £IOO,OOO. DECIMAL COINAGE. LONDON, April 15. Air E-. C. Barton of Brisbane, and Air Hunter, Agent General, were guests of the Decimal Association at a dinner. Mr Barton, in a speech said he re-guett-ed the conscrvtism of England towards modern ideas and suggested that Australia could embark on the metric system. If Australia adopted decimal coinage and metric measure, it would have a. powerful influence on Britain.

BUTTER QUESTION. LONDON, April 15. Now that AfcCurdy lias returned the question of Government’s purchase of colonial butter will probably he settled within ten days. BUILDING REQUIREMENTS. LONDON, April 15. In order to facilitate the building of dwellings, London County Council lias prohibited the building of cinema theatres, eh'bs and similar premises. JAPANESE CLASH. LONDON, Apirl 15. The 'Australian press understands that anti-Japanese feeling continues in Siberia. Japan lias taken strong action to suppress disorders, including the occupation of several points on that Chinese eastern rail. They arrested several ißuJsian workmen. Russians, Chinese and Czechs jointly protested and tht Railwaymen struck. • Subsequently there was street fighting between Rus-so-Czechs and Japanese which resulted iu several casualties including Chinese who intervened to quell the disturbance.

BIG STRIKE THREATENED LONDON, April 17. The leaders of the Lancashire <-H 1 - ■spinners and card-room workers are demanding a GO per cent, increase in wages. They have refused an employers’ suggestion of arbitration. They wll take a ballot for a trike on the Is' of May. The strike will affect 400,0'!’ operatives. The position is the graves! one for many years.

The London building operatives have formnllv d-n mled a wage of three shillm..s m hour, and the mechanics 2s Od. The laburers say the miners must have their own way. ITALIAN GENERAL STB IKK ROME. April 15. Following a steel workers strike r.i Turin, a general strike lias been do dared in 1 taly. APPOINTA! ENT APPROVED. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 17. Newspapers applaud Lord Jellicoe’s j appointment as Governor-General of New Zealand.