MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1920, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

[mu PiIEBS ABSGOIATTbN, — COPYEiOEIT.] STILL RISING. , LONDON, September 14. The price of gold is £5 19s. per oz., ■in sympathy with the American exchange movement, (The last cabled quotation was £5 16s 6d per oz. oil September 11.)

THE MEAT TRADE. LONDON, Sept. 15. Sir A. Fisher, Sir J. Allen, and the Agents-General journeyed to Bristol for the purpose of inspecting a new cold store there posting £156,000, with a' capacity of two hundred thousand carcases, which was erected to meet the demands of a growing direct trade between Bristol and Australasia. The British Docks Committee entertained the vistiors at luncheon. The Chairman pointed out that ten million people ;within a radius of one hundred miles of Bristol, would provide a market for Australasian produce, He said-the recent doubling of the railway freights | had handicapped the jpverland transport from London. The Bristol docks correspondingly favoured Bristol. Sir A. Fisher and Sir J. Allen stated that Australasia Was extremely anxious to encourage direct trade with Bristol and other British coastal ports for the purpose of facilitating the distribution of products.

FRENCH PRESIDENT. LONDON, September 15

The “Daily Express” Paris correspondent reports that Madame Deschanels wife of the French President has persuaded him to resign. Her previous reluctance to persuade her husband to resign was overcome by her discovery that he fell into a pond while wandering unattended, in the Chateau grounds at fßamboiullet. A gardener rescued him in an exhausted condition, and a severe nervous attack followed. A BIG BLAZE AT BAGDAD. LONDON, September 16. A great miltary motor-car depot at Bagdad was burnt recently, with supplies of petrol worth at least a million sterling, necessitating huge Government purchases by Britain. The fire was due to- incendiarism. The Arabs started twelve fires simultaneously.

MESOPOTAMIA REPORT. ■ (Received This Day at 8.40' a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 16. Mesopotamia communique shows the Rebels continue efforts to stop the erection of block houses along the railway, but despite sniping and scattered attacks', the work is progressing satisfactorily. Numbers of political officers and other civil servants who were reported missing in have reached places of safety. KOREA RIOTS. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) TOIvIO, Sept. 15. Press advices- from' Korea, state Korean rioters recently killed nUiUy Japanese and Korean policemen, especially during the visit of American Congressmen.

PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS. LONDON, Sept. 15. Mr Crichton Brownie, in a Presidential address to the Association of Sanitary Inspectors, said that it would be possible some day to vaccinate against tuberculosis as successfully as smallpox. Tliere was an acquired immunity from tuberculosis, which might be conferred* artificially on susceptible animals by iiinpculation. Mr Browne suggested “that stone charitable profiteer should draw a cheque for half la liiillion' to establish a properly equipped laboratory to carry out experiments on young champanees oh an uiiinhaliited Island that would' be not infected with tuberculosis.