MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1920, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYHI9HT.] WOOL SALES. ANTWERP, September 10. At the wool sales, 12,800 bales of Australian were offered and 8,800 sold, yi'hero were many buyers from *ll douiutniea aaid animated competition, Igood qualities making ten per cent advanco in prices. ATHLETICS. (Received Tms Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 10. Davidson (N.Z.), at the London Athletic Club sports at Stamford Bridgo won ,a short limit handicap with half-a-yard’s start in ten seconds. A BIG STRIKE WANTED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) OTTAWA, Sept. 12. According to a message from Calgary, the one big union convention received a cablegram from Robert Smillie demanding simultaneous action with English miners to bring about a general strike on 28th September. The convention will appoint a Council to consider the matter. Both Alberta and Nova Scotia miners have been advised regarding Smillie’s message.

ITALIAN MODERATE’S PREVAIL (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) ROME, Sept. 12.. A conference between delegates of the general workers’ union and executive of the Socialist’s party led to a complete victory for the Moderates. A large majority passed a resolution in favour of a settlement of the -strike through Parliamentary action. SERBIAN ACTION. (Received this day at 8 a.m.l LONDON, Sept. 12. Three Serbian columns are marching on Elbasan hoping to separate Durazzo from Tirana. A DISCOVERY OF COBALT. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON; Sept. 12. Garnett, metallurgist at Sheffield University, anounces the discovery of Cobalt in peat, in Derbyshire. OLIVE THOMAS DIES. PARIS, September iO. Olive Thomas, the screen actress, died this morning. She and her husband had been doing a round of Paris gaeitie-s. Her nerves broke down. Jack Pickford repudiates the statement that his wife committed suicide.

ITALIAN EARTHQUAKE LOSS ROME September 11

The number of people killed bv the recent earthquake is estimated at least et five hundred. Over twenty thousand are homeless. One iof the estimates puts the deaths at fourteen thousand GERMAN CROWN FRINGE. CONSTANTINOPLE!, September 10. An attempt by the Crown Prince to flee to Anatolia to join the Nationalists was frustrated. He has been arrestel and placed under a rigorous -control.

AMERICAN ATTITUDE. NEW YORK, September 11. The Democrat candidate for the United States Presidency, Governor Cox, said at Butte, that if elected, lie will bring the case of Ireland’s right to self-determination before the League < f Nations. As a friend of peace, ho would feel it hjs daily to do this Article Eleven of the Covenant made it possible for any nation t-o do this.

A VISIT TO MEXICO. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 9. A message from Acapulco, Mexico states that the Prince of Wales arrived there in H.M.S. Renown, and was accorded honours.

A BIG PRICB. (Received This Day at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 11. At Doncaster Bloodstock sales Sandford, vice-chairman of the Australian Jockey Club, paid 16,000 guineas for a Sunstar colt.