MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1920, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

i,y Near.c Telegraph-'-C' jv, ijrht.j : OBITUARY. | s LONDON, April 20. Obituary,—-Briton Riviere, Royal A ;; demician. FAST TRAVELLING. j LONDON, April 20. ;• A French motor boat at Nice races attained a record speed of a mile per minute. j; i WOMEN’S CONFERENCE. LONDON, April 21. f At the National Conference of Lahour women in London four hundred delegates were present. Mary Me Am thur presided. She said women were never so important politically as nowadays. There was sufficient driving force in the assembly to change the face of the world. The conference resolved to call upon the Government to immediately- give effect to the \Y ashington convention by introducing a Bill providing for the care of mothers at child birth and infants, on a universal non contributory basis, as a first step towards the creation of an international, social ,industrial law. The conference also passed an urgency resolution as regards the use of black troops iii Ruhr.

JAPANESE CRISIS. NEW YORK, April 21. Japanese financial liouscs assert t"bc crisis is exaggerated. Over speculation in silk is cliiofly responsible. A MEB LOAN B LUEBEARU. NEW YORK, April 21. Amazing disclosures have been made regarding a modern bluebeard, who has gone under various names, such as Gordon, Hurst, Harvey, Williamson, and Andrews. No fewer than twenty-live weddings have been definitely traced in which he was a party, and it is believed that there have been a score of others; Five of the brides are missing, and supposedly have been murdered for the sake of their insurance money, which is apparently this bluebeard’s speciality. He operated in most of the big Anieri can and Canadian cities. !YTs wives seldom saw him after their honeymoon. The Bluebeard is notv in hospital in a serious condition, as the result of two attempts to commit suicide. A TRADING MOVE . (licceivcd this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, April. 21. Bankers, traders and international financiers have formed a powerful An-glo-Danuhian Association for the purpose of rehabilitating industries. In the former Austro-Hungarian territo-i the Association supplies raw nr i which the manufacturers re-exported remaining the property of the senders until sold in other markets. Mannfaturers receive a share of products ; I payment for service.

A CAMPAIGN. (Received This Day at 3 a.m.) LONDON. April 21. The Conference of British Labourites decide to ask the Trade Union Congress to raise £30,000 sterling in view of nr intensive campaign in favour of '. m alisation of the mines. GAS TROUBLE. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, April A crisis lias risen in connection with the gas industry all over the country. One hundred thousand employees are taking a strike ballot on questions of increased wages, overtime and holidays. PRICE OF CLOTHES. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, April 21. The “Daily Mail” states the rapid rise in the price of clothes is inccnsin city men. It is stated that a group of stockbrokers, hankers, lawyers and others start, on 3rdl May, a proteM movement, similar to the American an*' tlior will don engineers’ overalls and dungarees. The tailors demand ID to 20 guineas for a lounge suit and say that” higher prices may ho expected. They accuse the manufacturers of gross profiteering. DELEGATION TO RUSSIA. /Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON. April 21 A Labour delegation is leaving for Ilnssia on 27th April. includes Robert Williams. Ben Turner, Mistress Snowden, Margaret Bondficld and Tom Shaw, (Commoner). The Soviets olio the fullest facilities for investigation, the results of which will be reported to the June Conference of the Labor.’ Party.