MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1920, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

•y me Telegraph— C ; >v. igb’.AVAR GRAVES. BRUSSELS, April 25. Sir Thomas McKenzie has concluded a tour of British military centres in France and Belgium. He was struck with the care with which the graves are beind tended and flowers planted on the graves, which are kept in order by workmen under experienced gardeners. Hitherto eight hundred cemeteries were transferred to the control of the Imperial War Graves Commission. He was satisfied the work of removing the bodies from the battlefields was conducted most reverently. *

NEW COALFIELD. LONDON, April 25

Immense deposits of bituminous coal has been discovered near Lough Neagh. Experts declare it will equal and possibly surpass the greatest deposits in England.

LABOUR BALLOT

(Imperial News Service;

LONDON, April 25

The House of Commons read a second time by 83 to 77, a Biff providing for secret voting at trade union ballots. The mover explained that Trade Union leaders would conduct the ballots. Lord Raeburn said workmen had appealed to him to do something to deliver them from the hands of extremists, who even ruled tbe Leaders. The Labourites, Messrs Brace and Clynes, opposed Mr Brace declaring that Trade Unions woijjd not use the Bill, the genesis ol which was tho belief that trades union officials were untrustworthy.

ANGLICAN BISHOPRIC.

CAPETOWN, April S 3,

The Rev. Neville Stewart Talbot, M.C has accepted the Bishopric of Pretoria, in succession to Dr Furse, the new bishop of St Albans.

CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE. LONDON, April 25.

The animal meeting of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce

adopted resolutions deploring the detention of shipping at the ports, and asking for an investigation, with a view to the application of remedies, and la-

'ouring the cessation of direct Govern

ment control at the earliest moment. It was decided to send a deputation to the Ministry of Transport and urge the constitution of Central AAatorways Boards to tho control canals.

The meeting adopted a resolution declaring the principle of war wealth taxation was unfair and impracticable, and ur<r;n,.' the need for a gradual reduction in the national debt by taxation of current profits and current incomd, not by he confiscation of capital, which was essential to tho maintenance and development of industry. A further resolution approved of Government legislating to ensure whenever a ballot referendum was used in industrial disputes, that the voting be conducted with the same secrecy as in Pari iamentary elections.

FINLAND AND RUSSIA. (Received This Day at 8 n.m.) . i COPENHAGEN, April 26. j The “Berlingske Tidende” repn'ts that negotiations between Finland and Russia have been interrupted. Roth

delegations have returned home for further instructions. 'Negotiations drifted from purely military matters for international questions of suclij importance that the Russians had not power to deal with them.