MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyrigut ) A PRIZE BULL. LONDON, July 1. The Prince, of Wales’ shorthorn bull, Diamond Butterfly has been sold for export at the Royal Agricultural Show, Darlington for four thousand, guineas.

BRITAIN’S EXPEN DITUIIE

(Reuter’s Telegrams.)

LONDON, July 1

For the quarter Britain’s-expa uliturc was £284,528,238 compared with £401,196,080 for the corresponding quarter of 1917. The surplus of revenue over expenditure was £30,258,214 compared with a deficit last year of £25,403,318. The floating debt has been reduced since 31st March by £26.354,000. A NEW MOVE. PARIS, July 1. The “Matin” reports the creation of a new national trade union of State Pensions with a membership of four million. <

JAPANESE DIET. TOKfO, July 1. An extraordinary session of the Diet has opened. A WOOL DEAL. PROFITEERS AT WORK. LONDON, July 1. ! :A well-informed A nglo-Austral inn giving his view on the German wool, business, states it probably represents a. characteristic deal on the part of four or five Yorkshire firms, who for several years, were associated financially with- large transactions. They included a millionaire who recently attracted much attention by his big deals in the wool trade and the war material. This millionaire owned two woollbn mills in Germany before the war. He and some financial associates recently returned from Germany. There was no reason to believe that any single deal in wool amounted to four millions sterling, but it is well-known that these firms have been largely buying between the auctions for some months. Apparently they have now decided to send their accumulated stock of raw material to the Continental factories. Iu addition to realising some extra profits by utilising the exchanges and industrial conditions abroad, they will have the enormous advantage of getting an early delivery from Germany of their manufactured and semi-manufactured goods. They can get the goods months before they could from people who have already booked orders with the fully-occu-pied English factories. TThis speedy delivery will, confer a special advantage on a falling market.

A MIDDLEMAN’S QUESTION. LONDON, July 1. The sale of New Zealand cheese and butter to the British Corporate ’Wholesale Co-Operative Society is still exciting adverse comment-. In the House of Commons \Mr Seager asked the Food Controller a question:—“’Whether in view of the Co-Operative Societies securing the whole of New Zealand’s cheese and butter exports, it :s in the public interest and whether the Government proposes to take action to prevent such aeqnisiton?” The Food Controller repeated a statement he made on June 21st., that if there is any attempt made to exploit the consumers, he would not hesitate to use the powers given him b v Parliament, but lie did not sav the acquisition would he stopped .

KIT)AVELIA’ POISONING CASE. LONDON, July 1. Counsel for the prosecution, in outlining the case against Greenwood, who is charged with poisoning his wife in June, of last year at Kadwell.v, in Wales, said the evidence would show that Greenwood, who married again a couple of months after his wife’s death bought poisonous weed-killer in May, 1919. It would lie, shown that lie went as far afield as Edinburgh to got this arsenical poison. Tho first wife’s remains showed the presence of arsenic. The prosecution suggests in the Kidwelly case, that it was arsenic that was administered in a glass of wine’at luncheon on the day Mrs Greenwood died that caused death.

Greenwood’s gardener deposed the weed-killer bought was not used in the garden.

AFTER FIVE YEARS. VIENNA, June 30

Essad Pasha, who was shot in Paris recently, is believed to have been the victim of an Albanian vendetta. Essad. in November, 1915, ordered a “bravo” to murder the Minister, Nedjati Bey, whose nephew, Rustem, undertook revenge. He had tracked Essad five years when lie shot him in a Paris street.

IMPERIAL BUTTER. CONTRACT LONDON, July 1

The Food Controller announces find a new butter contract with Australis lias been concluded. 'lt operates Iron August Ist. Thus butter bought unde the old contract, (terminating on Aug ust 31st), benefits by the new contrae prices.

COMMERCIAL. LONDON, June 30.

At the tallow sales, 1099 casks were offered, while 220 were sold. Fine mutton, fetched 76s 6d per cwt ; medium 60s; fine beef 755; and medium 64*. P .and O. Shipping shares are quoted : Buyers £415 sellers £435.