MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 June 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

(AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOOUtfTOW, INDIAN WHEAT YIELD. , DELHI, J une 3. j The Indian wheat harvest is estimatJ ed at 10,095 tons being 34 per cent above the previous year. BOLSHEjVIK REPULSE. I WARSAW, Jujne 2. The Bolshevik offensive is breaking down before the fierce resistance. Bolsheviks i\l lo crossed the Beresina south oi Borisoff have been dispersed. Bolsheviks not only failed to recapture Ivieff, but after violent fighting they left the Diieiper severely defeated. Their attacks on the Dnoister have been repulsed.

| MR THEODORE’S REPLY. LONDOJN, June 3. [ Mr Theodore (Premier of Queensj land), replying to Dr Berriedale Keith j on the constitutional aspect of the api pointment of Mr Lenuin a s Acting Gov. I ernor of Queensland, says the refer- ! endum procedure is too'cumbersome to settlo disputes between two houses. 'He j denies Keith’s assertion that the swamping the Council means its aboi lition, as an actively independent body. I Mr Theodore adds that the Council was hostile to a majority of the party \ in the lower House and was a mere ob- | struction serving no useful purpose to j the democracy of the State. He emphatically denies it is unwise or unusual 1 for a Government party to have a majority in the Council. Keith’s dcduc- ! tion appears to bo that the Council’s independence is only imperilled when the Labour Party has a majority in the Council'. Keith’s fears are from prejudice, through an imperfect understanding of the Labour Party’s aims. Mr Theodore concluded, the constitutional parliamentary institutions are of interest to British investors, and arc perfectly safe in labour’s keeping. The

labour movement in Australia is a real slieet anchor of safety against destructive tendencies of direct actiojiists and tho veritable stagnation of an ultraconservative policy, BELGIANS MANDATE. (Received This Day at 8 a.ni.j •LONDON, June 2. Hassompierre. an official of the Belgian Foreign Office, and Loveres of the Colonial Department are now in London negotiating with Lord Milner in regard to ex-German territory in Last April, known as Tanganyika. It has beon arranged that the ex-German provinces of •Ruanda and Unnidi'shall be included in tl]o Belgian mandate, but certain transit problems have not yet ■been settled, including arrangements for transportation along the section of railway .between Taboru and tho coast of Dnr es -.Sain a in.

INTERNATIONAL LAW. LONDON, June 1

The Conference at Portsmouth on International Latv lias closed. The Con_ forenco appointed a committee to report oil the best methods by which international co-operation for common economic, social and legal objects can he extended under the League of Nations.

PRjK-HIsfORIC ELEPHANTS. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, June 3

Workmen discovered near Chagny fossilised bones. Scientists declare they belong to mammoth mid-European elephants, thirteen feet in height and tusks eight feet long.

GASWORKS WORKS v STRIKE, COMING. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.)

LONDON, June 4

The entire country is threatened with a. gas works strike for higher wages. A ballot overwhelmingly favoured • a stoppage of work on the 26th.

BOLSHEVIKS ENTER TEHERAN. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, June 4. The Persian Legation understands that Bolsheviks have entered Teheran.

GREEK NEWS. (Received this day, at 9.30 aim.) ATHENS, . June 4

Venizelos ,has decided that martial law shall continue until the danger of a pro-Constantine rising has been removed. He believes the plotters had proposed to net during his forthcoming absence in France and England. Venizelos ridicules the reports that King Alexander does not intend to return. ROME June 4.

King Constantine in an interview, said he hopes and believes Greece will recall him. ‘Be says he never abdicated, and the forthcoming elections will reject Venizelos and insist oil Constantine’s restoration.

TRADE PROPOSALS. (Received tliis day at 9.30 a.m.)

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The Australian Press Association interviewed Hotowetz, Minister for Commerce, regarding the prospects tor direct trading arrangements with Australia and New Zealand. Hotowitz welcomed the idea and said Czechoslovakia needs raw materials in ordpr to re-establish her industries. Ihe problem is one of finance and it will be necessary to obtain credits or lpake special arrangements because exchange is so seriously against Czecho-Slovakia. The country has already secured nine months credits from United States, when they are importing cotton direct which formerly was purchased in London and Liverpool. The new Republiclooks hopefully to Britain inasmuch as Britain was the first power to officially recognise Czecho-Slovakia nationalrights resulting in her independence. He would be glad to think it possible to develop friendly relations with the British Dominions also. HAIG’S OFFICER’S ASSOCIATION, 'Received this dav at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, June 3.

Haig’s Officers Association has agreed to take 12,500 shares as a. start, in Australian farms. It is also convening a meeting of business interests of, the city with a view to securing further financial support. Sir Arthur Stanley and Christopher Turner and other influential men, have joined the London Board. Financial circles in London consider if Australians are more generous in their support this would Insure further British capital. The Overseas Settlement Committee suggest the scheme should be extended to other Australian states.