MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 May 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. 1 JAPANESE FINANCE. TOKIO, May 13. The Stock Exchange market opened on May 10, and cotton and silk markets on May 7th. The Japan Bank lent nearly 130,000,000 yen to the Stock Exchange co-operations and sugar merchants. The Bank has increased its credits to the Exchange Banks by 250,000,000 yen since March 15th. The call loan rate is now 7’, per cent, having fallen from 12 per cent.

AMERICAN POLITICS. WASHINGTON, May 13. j Senator Thomas, a Democrat, in .i j speech, declared the Democratic Party | would face defeat of the Resolutions if j it adopted Mr Wilson’s stand for rati-! fieation of the Treaty, unchanged. Mr; Hitchcock ridiculed the Republicans’ attempt to secure the adoption of Mr Knox’s Peace Resolutions. He said Republicans were working against a. wall since they know the Resolution would be immediately vetoed. JAPANESE ' AMBASSADOR._ ■ TOKIO, May 12. Viscount Isliu, former Japanese Ambassador to United States, lias been appointed Ambassador to France. MR WILSON RECEIVING. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 12. •Mr Wilson, for the first time since his illness, received foreign representatives, namely, the Belgian Ambassador and Uruguayan Minister, and will shortly give an audience'to seven other diplomatic representatives, including Sir E. Geddcs, ip the order of their arrival.

SALVAGING GOLD. (Received this day, at 8 a.m.) LONDON, May 12. The salvager, Racer has gone to North Ireland to salve a million '•terling remaining in the hold of the Laurentia 20 fathoms deep, where the pressure is fifty pounds to the square inch, and divers can only remain below half an hour. The Racer contains a pumn capable of lifting nine hundred tons of mud per hour. It will be necessary to exp.vode the ship’s plates until tin the safes are reached. The docks if the liner are so crushed in that the hoight of the wreck is now only ten feet The hull is so battered out of •ecognition that it took two months to discover the locality of the gold in the strong room, which was 12ft in height and is now that in inches.

“ ESTABLISH NORMAL LIFE.” (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 13. Mr Greenwood interviewed in Dublin, said:— “Since my appointment I have signed no deportation orders, and have released many prisoners arrested on suspicion, after personally examining the grounds on which suspicion was based. I personally ordered Alderman O’Bren’s release. These things show >. am carrying out the intention to try and establish noramHife in Ireland, including normal proceedings of the court of justice. I am expressing the views of mv country and the world when I say tlie callant Irish police deserve the admiration of all. The Government will not fail in its duty to them.”