MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

I AUSTRALIAN' tfc -N.Z. CABLE ASHOCIMMQJIJ BRITAIN’S WHEAT. (Received tin's day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Juno 8. On tho second reading of tlio Agriculture Bill, Lord secretary of the Board of Agriculture,»pointed out that before the war Britain only produced enough wheat to suffice from Friday night till Monday morning, the rest of tho week being dependent on foreign imports. Wo are agricultural week-enders, he said. Production had improved .during the war, and government was determined- not to lot agriculture slip back. It would undoubtedly bo cheaper to grow wheat in this country of shortage, than *to import it. | Tho whole question of tho future was I how to get our daily bread. The bill might bo ..called a farmers’ charity, but it was introduced in the national interests to make the best use of the greatest national asset. The keynote of the hill, was security all round, security for the farmer by means of guaranteed prices, and security to the labourer by means of a minimum wage, security to the State by giving it certain control of , cultivation, stj that a maximum amount of food might he produced. j IMPERIAL PREFERENCE. j (Renter’s Telegram.} ’ (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 8. j In tho House of Commons, Mr Wilson stated an invitation to consider the t practicability of Imperial preference! had been sent to all the Colonies and t Protectorates, except those precluded from doing so by international agreements or in which preference was nl- j ready enforced or impracticable. Re- j plies hitherto received included Hong- j kong*and Sierra Leon, both of whi • i considered preference unnecessary, and Cyprus, where legislation in this connection had been passed. SUEZ CANAL DUES. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) : ' PARIS June 9. The Suez Canal dues in the near future will he reduced twenty-five centimes per ton.

' TRIBESMEN ATTACKS, A'POST WIPED OUT. (Received this day at 10.35 a.in.) DELHI, Julie 9. A serious outbreak is reported in Mesopotamia. A party of tribesmen led by Sherifian officers, attacked Te[ Afar seizing the Government buildings and .killing 1 aIJ the Government officials, im eluding two Britsh officers. A number of inhabitants were also killed. Thp crews of two armoured efirs who visited Tel Afar next day, are reported to have been captured and murdered, A punitive column is being sent from Mosul, A TRIBUTE. (Received This Dav at 12.25 p.ip.) LONDON, lime 9, Sir Charles Lucas, at 'a meeting of the Colonial Institute paid a warm tribute to Sir Thos- Mackenze’s services ps High Commissioner. KING EDWARD’S HORSE, (Received This Day at 10.35. a.m.) LONDON, June 9. At the reunion of comrades of First Killer Edward Horse, it was stated that over 550 young colonials in its ranks had obtained commissions in British armies during the war. A .memorial in the shape of an elongated milestone on which is inscribed the names of eightytwo who fell, will be shortly unveiled at Npuve Glia pell e wlierp the regiment held up a- German division all day long in 1918. General Herbert Lawrence in a speech, hoped the regiment would continue to link with the overseas dominions, ‘‘REMARRY WHILE YOUNG. LONDON, June fi. A demobilised soldier named Wilson, •48 years of age, who was unemployed and suffered from neurasthenia, com- | rnitted suicide. I

He left a grateful letter to his wife and son, desiring the former to remarry while she was young and handsome, anti giving his blessing and wishing her luck. He ended. “Your broken-hearted Arthur.” DIVE TO DEATH. LONDON, June (i. The Times’ Correspondent in Berne states that Taddioli, the leading Swiss trans-Alpine ilier, was coyk-screwing” over Lake'Constance in a Savoia biplane, when till prupellpr snapped. ' The wings and the rudder refused to act, and the machine plunged 1200 feet like a log to the bed of the lake. Taddloli’s hotly, which was strapped in the machine, has not been recovered.

BRITISH TRADE. '.Router’s Telegram.) (Received this day at 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 9. Exports for. May, totalled 119,344,000 tons compared with .04,344,000. Imports were 166,333,000 compared with 135,612,000 during the previous May. The chief increases in exports of manufactured goods are: Cotton 20,187,000, woollen 5,009,000, iron and steel (5,574,. 000. Exports for five.months totalled 521,114,000 compared with 594,094,000. Re-exports of foreign and colonial merchandise 115,676,000 an increase of 72,296,000 compared with the same period of 1919.