MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1920, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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YACHTING CUP FOR AUCKLAND,

LONDON, June ig,

Sir Thomas Lipton, the-yachting erthusiast has presented the Ponsonby Cruising Club of Auckland, N.Z., with a handsome silver cup for competition.

ASCOT MEETING. LONDON June 15.

The Ascot Meeting opened in delightful sunshine, but later rain fell. The King and Queen, and Princess Mary who were Royal' 1 guests, motored through Windsor Park and then changed to carriages drawn by eight horses for the procession of the course,* with scarlet-coated outriders. The postillions , were blue and gold livery* with powder, ed wigs. ' , The display of frocks was unprecedented in the history of the gathering. There was not an empty place 6if ,-Tie grandstands or in the enclosure. QUEENSLAND’S PREMIER. LONDON, June J. 6. The Premier of Queensland, Mr Theodore is inquiring at Manchester .regarding machinery, for establishing v ponworks in Queensland to man ifiyptiliQ steel. , " , ■ MELBA’S WIRELESS CONCERT. LONDON, June ’Pn, It reputed that Madame M« M-a’s wireless concert was success"n’’y i.*ard in England and on the Continent, Mt.fba sang in French and Italian for thp benefit of foreign listeners. AVIRELESS OPERATORS, LONDON, June 15. Seagoing wireless operators have struck for an increase ip wages to £f weekly, '

deal in coal. LONDON, June 16. An important deal in coal js per ported. It is one which indicates tLp change in Britain’s position' an being no longer the chief supplier of Europe. The London newspapers’ nnnounce, thas as a j-esult of there being a restriction on coal exported from Britain, an English Middlesborough firm have just purchased no. less than 140 .ti’.O'isand tons of Australian coal. This coal is for, delivery in Sweden. It Is to be delivered in the second half of this year. • • - Tlie coal lias been bought comparatively cheaply in Australia. The price there paid is 22p 6d„ per ton. The freight is no less than £8 to £8 10» per ton. /Even ' then this coal will -undersell the British coal bl 30s per ton. , The same firm is now negotiating for a further hundred thousand tom. STRIKE EXTENDS. MELBOURNE, June 16. A serious extension of the strike is affecting food supplies. It is reported that manufacturing grocers are ceasing work at all establishments where black power" is used. There are now twenty thousand idle, and the city is suffering from a serious fuel shortage. "